AFX?
The NSW Annual Field Exercise is a field training campof huge proportions. It's a statewide camp, where army cadets from all regions of NSW
converge on the Singleton Army Training Area for a week of fun in the bush. Cadets get to work together on exercises encompassing team-building,
navigation, patrolling and military skills.
206 ACU @ AFX
On AFX 2008, 206 ACU members divided into mixed platoons of cadets from our parent battalion, 22 AAC BN. It's a great way of meeting people,
members of the same organisation, who you normally wouldn't get to work with.
AFX is one event of the year where our cadet NCOs can show off their leadership ability, commanding a section, platoon, company, and even
whole battalion, of cadets - the Battalion Commanders for the last two years have both been Cadet Under Officers from this unit!
For certain.
Photo & poster: CDTSGT Yeung
206 ACU waits outside Marist College, while NCOs conduct final roll checks. Packs are being loaded into the coach, ready for the
several-hour-long journey to Singleton.
Photo: CDTSGT Yeung
22 AAC Battalion, hailing from the Sydney North region, descend onto the Singleton Army Training Area. Here, cadets form a massive
open file, in preparation for the march-in to the area of operations.
Photo: CDTSGT Yeung
The AFX 08 Battalion Commander, a cadet from 206, stops for a chat with an Officer of Cadets.
Photo: CDTSGT Yeung
Members of 206 ACU get a moment of sit-and-do-nothing time. The initial day of AFX is commonly known as the "hurry up and wait" period.
Photo: CDTSGT Yeung
Hootchie accommodation.
Photo: CDTSGT Yeung
Members of the 7-platoon, Bravo Company, wait for the author's vehicle check point (VCP) lesson to begin. A VCP was established on the
intersection in the background, and was operated on shifts by the platoons of B Coy.
Photo: CDTSGT Yeung
The platoon radio-boy, a cadet from 206, calls in to Zero Alpha, confirming that we've reached our supposed FSB, but have found nothing there.
Photo: CDTSGT Yeung
A 206 Cadet discovers the wonders of his webbing as he empties it, in preparation for a range check following the AFX 08 live fire exercise.
Photo: CDTSGT Yeung
Mateship... occurs when, on the last day of AFX, you need a pillow to sleep on.
Photo: CDTSGT Yeung
