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Escape Room
OCdt Williams
On6thJune2019LucknowPlatoontravelled to Exciting Escapes in Basingstoke in order to participate in team-building activities. Dur-
ing the trip, Lucknow OCdts were able to develop teamwork and problem-solving skills whilst com- pleting an escape style command task.
The aim of the trip was to develop cohe- sion within Lucknow Platoon and to challenge Lucknow Platoon Cadets mentally as they attempted to work together to solve clues and escape in the allotted time. This also gave Luc- know OCdts the opportunity, first-hand, to expe- rience future trips they could take their soldiers on, once commissioned.
Lucknow Cadets thoroughly enjoyed their time at Exciting Escapes and all groups man- aged to escape within the allotted 60 minutes. The Cadets were split into teams of five and raced to see who could escape in the shortest amount of time. The escape room brief was: ‘It is May 1939, and as the problems on con- tinental Europe mount, British Intelligence need the group to focus on a problem at home. They believe a city banker is providing funding and support to the Germans. They also believe he has specific knowledge about plans for a Ger- man incursion on to British soil. Just what does this fiendish financier know?’
Exercise LUCKNOW ENDEAVOUR
OCdt Barclay
On Thursday 21st March Lucknow Platoon visited the ‘Body Worlds Exhibition in Lon- don. This is an exhibition with 100% real
bodies and body parts, preserved using a method called plastination. This exhibit is made for both medical training and the interest of the gen- eral public, and so is designed both to observe human systems but also to teach, for example the dangers and consequences of obesity.
As Lucknow platoon are all injured OCdts under- taking a daily rehabilitation and physiotherapy
programme, this exhibit was relevant to both the Cadets’ injuries as well as their interest in this area. Cadets were able to view the major sys- tems of the body including digestive, circulatory, skeletal and reproductive systems, including certain elements of pathophysiology, for exam- ple smoker’s lungs and liver cirrhosis.
Much to the surprise of both Cadets and direct- ing staff, every body and body part in the exhibi- tion was that of a real person except the eyes – which are supposedly not well-received by the
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