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Commissioning Course, even though they have come from it. Lucknow cadets are easy to spot, with their white name badges and preference for tracksuit order. Other cadets see them and know they are not one and the same. This difference is important as it prevents Lucknow cadets from diverging from the second element: purpose.
It is important to provide the team with a singular overarching purpose. For Lucknow platoon this purpose is to return to training. It is a powerful, unifying concept. Compare this to the Regular Course where everyone’s goal is to commission
yes, but to commission into a different part of the Army – this leads to great variation in effort, char- acter and leadership style. Every day Lucknow cadets spend half their time working on the goal of returning to training, this repetitive and almost religious observance to rehabilitation.
The last element is activity; the day-to-day actions of the team and the individuals within it. Lucknow is unique because it is the cadets who largely execute the DS assured training programme; planning a week long module or individual lessons within it. They are a training
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