Captain Darryl Petfield, from the Battalion  Training Team, and Cadet Under Officer Tamsyn Collins-Farnill with Corporal David Cadiz and Cadet Matthew Rayment from 126 ACU Murrumba Downs
Cooking up the damper were Cadet Arlee Mumme, Lance Corporal Mustafa Pathan and Lance Corporal Lani Wilson 

August 8, 2016

Army cadets from Murrumba Downs and Logan joined comrades from Nanango at a special bivouac weekend at Nanango State High School at the weekend.

The khaki and camouflage-clad young people tried their hands at damper making, built a rope and pole bridge, practised detecting “mines” in a minefield and generally enjoyed doing all things military.

11 ACU from Logan also brought along its band to provide a musical touch to the weekend.

The only weapons in sight were replicas, except for the archery area where cadets were making short work of the targets with long bows.

Major (AAC) Trevor Schultz, from Brisbane, said archery had been introduced into the cadet program six years ago.

Since then about 12,000 boys and girls across Australia had undergone the introduction to archery training.

The weekend also featured “team building” exercises for the cadets, including navigating an obstacle course while blindfolded, and first aid training.

[Photos: southburnett.com.au and Clive Lowe Photography]

Lance-Corporal Lani Wilson and Cadet Holly Wilton, from 177 ACU Nanango, were looking after the first aid post
Anthony Prestidge, from Hatton Vale, in an Australian uniform from the Afghanistan war, and Grahame Cuthbert,  from Brisbane, in desert camo from Gulf War I
Lance Corporal Jazmyn Mills, Cadet Ben Wilson and Cadet Arlee Mumme, all from 177 ACU Nanango
Recruit Jayden Donaldson, from 11 ACU Logan, takes aim at the target
Cadets work on assembling their rope and pole bridge in the grounds of Nanango State High School

  

 

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