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DEFENCE SCHOOL OF TRANSPORT LECONFIELD

WO2 (QMSI) C Hames RAPTC

The Defence School of Transport

(DST) is, for those of you who have
attended ‘top gear’ courses here,
perceived to be a sleepy hollow. This
couldn’t be further from the truth with

regards the Gymnasium facilities. Physical
and Adventurous Training and Sporting
Activities are high on the agenda and are
well supported and encouraged.

Phase 2 students transiting through,
generally 3 months, are subject to a
rotating but varied 6 weeks PT programme
with 4 sessions per week culminating

weekly in a Battle PT session the likes
of which they would experience at an
Infantry unit on MST; it’s all good! Phase 3
students rotate through on a much higher

ratio and are not always captured on PT
due to course timings and restraints,
this said if you have remedial PT soldiers
coming through please let us know and Staff MTB Training

we will carry on your good work.
loor area which can accommodate over The Health and Sports Fairs held here
The difference and sometimes hindrance 200 soldiers. There are spinning lessons are second to none with a large target
is that, rightly, driver training takes priority almost daily as well as bums and tums audience of transiting troops which beneit

over everything. Evening PT starts at 1645 and circuits. In total some 39 lessons are all, there were no Chlamydia testing kits
and inishes an hour later not ideal after a programmed in weekly.
left and all the free health food vanished in
long days driving but performance does seconds.lets hope they keep it up!
not seem to suffer.
We have many thriving sports and AT clubs,
such as Motor Cross, Mountain Biking, Ju The staff at DST are a mix of SIOPTs and

For those of you who have seen the Jitsu as well as all the ‘normal’ Major Sports. AAPTIs which works very well and they
gymnasium it is a top notch facility. An Regular trips are arranged for students and are genuinely a good (but slightly aged)
old aircraft hanger transformed beyond permanent staff alike an example being a bunch! We have been stung on manning
recognition and a Multi Activity Sports Hall Mountain Biking trip to Morzine in France in recently but to their credit the staff

(MASH) next door which boasts a large
June..yes you have guessed it, my baby!
ensured PT delivery was not affected, Sgt
(SI) “speedy” Young RAPTC is 2IC who
keeps a tight reign on all goings on, in
conjunction with myself, and he is, without

question, the lynch pin of the Gymnasium;
and not a bad runner either!

To conclude, if you haven’t been or

are thinking of a posting here I would
thoroughly recommend it, do not listen
to the guys that talk it down, they have
clearly never visited the gym!!
DST recognise the spin class instructor
Weight training area