Adventurous Training
When was the last time you went canoing, skiing or climbing? At school? Maybe you paid to go for a holiday earlier this year, or last year or even longer ago. Hang around on a cliff face in Canada, not a street corner in Armagh.
Being part of the Battalion means you have access to all the adventure training offered by the Army, from trekking through to skydiving. Best of all it comes at a greatly reduced price thanks to the subsidies from the Battalion. Whereas in civvie street you might pay £400 - £500 for a weeks climbing, we might have to pay only £100, or even get it for free.
Not only do the Battalion pay for you to go adventure training, but they will pay for you to become a qualified instructor. We need climbing instructors and Mountain Leaders, and the more instructors we have then the more of our soldiers can do that sport for free.
In civvie street getting a qualification might cost you hundreds of pounds, but through the Army it might be free. It is all a part of our military training - pushing ourselves to the edge of our comfort zone and then stepping beyond.
How can you afford not to be a part of it?