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A typical day at NEOC is usually waking up about 5:30.
We have EMA, which is Early Morning Activity, with the
PTIs and usually do some sort of fitness training.
They can be really laid back sometimes, and they can be
really full-on.
Raise.
[INAUDIBLE].
Lower.
It's good.
It' a good way to wake up.
And then we've got SCRAN, and we fall in for both watches
and colours.
So we watch the colors ceremony every day.
After that, we've got classes, usually.
So we might have something like history or written
communications, something like that.
Some of them are quite theory-based, so some of them
are personal development and things like getting to know
yourself and your limits.
But then some are really full-on--
like we had survival at sea last week, which is going out
in the life raft and wearing these awful orange suits.
Once the waist belt's undone, put your feet all the way in.
Can't breathe.
Gorge.
I tell you what, if this doesn't pull the ladies,
nothing will.
When we go from the college, we go from 8 o'clock right
through to lunch time.
And yeah, we go over to lunch and have our food and then
muster for both watches in the afternoon.
And from it depends, but you could go back and do more
classes at the college.
Or you could be going and doing some PT, maybe organised
divisional sport.
We do that sometimes.
[CHANTING].
Hey.
Everyone, nice big clap for each other.
[CHEERS]
We have been doing it pretty regularly on leadership skills
and team building exercises and that sort of thing.
And they're more like--
we'll start off in the classroom with those and learn
basic principles and management principles,
leadership, and how to attack a situation and
that sort of thing.
And from there, usually we'll move out into the sports
fields, and we'll do the practical side
which goes with that.
And so they're always good fun.
And we get out, and we'll be given little mock situations
and have to run though how you would do it and use the
techniques that you learned in the class and just personal
development sort of stuff.
We usually do that with our Lieutenant [? Newman ?].
How will you be able to tell why?
Well, I'll give it a look.
And I like to get out to do our little bike ride to check
the perimeter of an airfield for security.
And all those things will have a fun rolling element, and the
aim is quite simply to put them outside their personal
limits, to show them what is the human body actually
capable of, and to let them learn what they can then do
beyond this training.
Oh my god.
I'm so not a bike rider.
I really struggled.
Yeah, no it was good though.
It was good coming home.
We had a big, long, downhill stretch.
We do a boat course work.
Once we pass that boat course-- which ours is in a
couple of weeks time-- on the weekends, we're allowed to
borrow out the boats from the MS, and we can use them for
the whole weekend and run around in the bay and do
whatever we want to do in the boats as long as we're safe.
So there's a lot that we can do.
We were sitting there the other day saying, oh, at home.
And you don't realise, but that's Creswell now.
So it's a bit strange.
I never thought I'd call that home, but yeah.
It's pretty much home now, and most people have their own
stereos and computers and own doona covers, their own
clothes in there, photos up everywhere.
At the moment, we're just trying to set up a network
between us all, just so we can start passing our movies and
music and stuff because it's the first chance we've got to
actually use them, which is nice.
Now we've got freedom.
We can go wherever we like on the weekends, and we have the
afternoons to ourselves now.
We can go to bed early if we wish.
You've got a bit of freedom, and he goes out and buys a
Mickey Mouse bedspread.
[INAUDIBLE].
Our classes end at 4:00.
Oh, I mean 1600 every day.
Jargon jar.
Yeah.
Well, I'm out for $25 in the span of two days.
Basically, if you use civi terms instead of naval terms,
then you have to put gold coin donation into the jargon jar.
It's just a fund raiser sort of thing.
Bed and rack is the main one we get people on all--
Floor and deck.
Floor and deck.
And what was the other one?
Wall?
Oh, room and cabin's a big one.
Oh, room and cabin.
I'm a big fan of room and cabin.
I said room four times in one sentence.
[LAUGHTER]
You can let your hair down a bit, get out of the uniforms
and just let your hair down, and you have a couple drinks
with your mates.
Oh, it's a nice change, actually.
After wearing the same thing every day and night for the
last month, it's a [INAUDIBLE].
It's good.
I only turned 18 last week.
Hey, happy birthday.
So this is the first time I've really been drinking in a pub.
And I glad that it's with these guys.
They've become really good friends.
Who else would you rather be drinking with?
I really don't know.
So it's really good to just hang out with these guys.
They really are really good friends now.