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- Brigade_Squad abstract "Brigade Squad was a course for potential officers run by the Guards Division training depot at Caterham and subsequently Pirbright for those wishing to join the Household Division, i.e. the five regiments of foot guards and the two household cavalry regiments (now the Household Cavalry Regiment).[citation needed]It started at about the time of the Second World War and was disbanded in the 1990s. During the period of its existence its character, duration and purpose changed and/or developed. Generally, as with any human activity, it was "worse in my day", as a combination of health and safety considerations, cost cutting, and complaints from parents slowly but surely trimmed its worst excesses back.[citation needed]The purpose of the course (latterly) was to weed out or put off inappropriate applicants, and to assist those completing the course in their subsequent selection and training. It was reasonably successful in the first objective. The course was not passed or failed and there was no passing out parade, promotion, or other benefit for completion other than being permitted to proceed to officer selection. But potential officers did have the benefit of observing and experiencing the training given to ordinary recruits joining the household division. Equally, guardsmen, being trained at the same facilities but in separate platoons, would be able to witness potential officers (who in due course would command them) enduring similar experiences to theirs. In theory Brigade Squad, although shorter than an ordinary recruit's course, was more unpleasant since far more intense.[citation needed]Alexander Thynn, 7th Marquess of Bath describes his experiences in the 1950s thus:Potential Officers at Caterham were put into the Brigade Squad, where we were required to absorb within four weeks the disciplinary training that other Guardsmen took in more gradually over a period of months. But during these four weeks, the whole idea was to drain from us every spark of individualism, so that we could be remoulded into the fused identity of a single platoon. The process involved the deliberate destruction, or suspense, of all that had previously amounted to any sense of personal identity. We had to be transformed into automatons before we could be of any use to the Brigade of Guards. And the dehumanising process was focused upon the idea of getting us marching, stamping our feet, pirouetting and twirling to the frenzied bark of Sergeant McMahon.[citation needed]Alan Clark described Brigade Squad as follows:Brutalisation can take two forms, both of which I have undergone. One is the Etonian education where there is the intellectual kind: it's not so much a brutalisation as a very cruel and long-drawn-out initiation ceremony to a fraternity. And then there is the much rougher brutalisation which takes place at the Guards Brigade Squad Camp, which every guards officer has to undergo. Quite rightly it is worse than that to which the ranks are subjected. So when you see all those 'chinless wonders' strutting about in their posh uniforms, you will know that for eight weeks they have had an absolutely appalling time, probably worse than you will get anywhere outside a Victorian prison.Completion of the course was no guarantee of a commission since candidates still had to pass through the Regular Commissions Board at Westbury and then complete the commissioning course at RMA Sandhurst and any specialist junior officer training thereafter. In addition many completing Brigade Squad were also required to complete Rowallan Company before proceeding to the standard commissioning courses at Sandhurst.[citation needed]As at the time that the course was disbanded it was of 8 weeks' duration consisting of basic recruit training, fieldcraft including battle camp, a march and shoot competition, adventurous training, and then a week of preparation for RCB.[citation needed]Other parts of the British Army provided equivalent courses in imitation of Brigade Squad, e.g. the potential officers' course at Catterick for those seeking commissions in the Royal Armoured Corps.[citation needed]".
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- Brigade_Squad comment "Brigade Squad was a course for potential officers run by the Guards Division training depot at Caterham and subsequently Pirbright for those wishing to join the Household Division, i.e. the five regiments of foot guards and the two household cavalry regiments (now the Household Cavalry Regiment).[citation needed]It started at about the time of the Second World War and was disbanded in the 1990s. During the period of its existence its character, duration and purpose changed and/or developed.".
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