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 Military Training included parade ground practice to build on the expertise of simple lessons learnt during those first 4 weeks, More small arms tuition,and film plus lectures on the prime reason for our being part of the Service,

WAR  

  It was some years after I left the service before the PENNY dropped. Was it just me that was exceptionally thick, or did other Apprentices notice at the time, the attempt at surreptitious indoctrination by the powers that be in introducing us to film, shot in some cases less than 10 years previously in places like Belsen, so as to induce a hatred of - Foreigners, The French/The Germans - depending on the era of Entente Cordial that we were practising at the time. Hatred is a prime necessity to go "Into Battle" for it is not in mans nature to Hate just for the sake of it and therefore has to be Cultivated

  I can remember vividly the film of the Death camps and War Crimes trials shown to us then that has only recently appeared on the standard media outlets of today for possibly the same reasons

"Lest We Forget" 

  Film of our "Allies" was also a regular feature so as to remind us that the Americans especially were not the "RAMBOS", a phrase we use today, they would like us to think they are.  All the American war film was taken in colour and the sight of the landings at places like Guadal Canal and other such invasions as they progressed through the Pacific were eye opening and ghoulish to say the least.

  From the British perspective "Blowing ones own Trumpet" was also well to the fore and hilarious footage of British Inventions, to try to overcome a particular problem,  was also presented, no doubt expecting it to maybe one day in an "Hour of Need"  spur one of us to contribute something useful. 

Apparently all it inspired to my knowledge in those early years was to prime BOIARTS with even more ideas on how to spread Mischief and Mayhem to the detriment of the ESTABLISHMENT.

   As for the attempts by the ROYAL NAVY to dehumanise us, They suffered miserable failure, as boys of 15/16 are inhuman enough