Author: Tom

Exercise Blue 09

Equipment
Tea light candle / Matches / 2 bobbins of thread	Roll of aluminium foil / Method of marking exclusion zone

Time Limit	Area Required	Preparation Time
15 minutes	Small/ Indoor	5 minutes

Lay out a strip of foil 1.5– 2m long.
In the centre place a tea light candle.
The cadets must light the candle using no more than 6 matches.
No part of the body is to pass over the foil. Nothing is to touch the foil.
If the foil is particularly narrow, you may wish to widen the ‘exclusion zone’ by some other means.
This could be done on a table top.
Care is to be exercised at all time while the match is lit, or being readied for lighting. It may be prudent to fasten the candle with a piece of blu-tac.

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Exercise Blue 09

I will read the following exercise to you twice. On the first reading listen carefully, you may take notes on the second reading and have the opportunity to ask questions. Are you ready?
You are in enemy territory, but close enough to the border to affect an extraction by friendly forces. / A friendly AWACS aircraft is due overhead in 15 minutes which is capable of picking up your location, and organising your extraction. You must get a signal to it. / Your radio equipment is dead so you must resort to an optical signal using a candle on a reflector. The reflector is very fragile though, and nothing should touch it. In order for the reflector to work best no part of your body should pass over it in order to avoid contaminating it. / You must light the candle in the middle, using only six matches, and the other equipment as provided, so that the passing AWACS will see you signal and can arrange your rescue.
You have 3 minutes from the end of this briefing to brief your team and then 15 minutes to complete the task. / Have you any questions? / (answer by re-reading the relevant part of the briefing)? / Check understanding: / What is allowed over the reflector? (Inanimate objects only) / How long have you got before the candle MUST be lit? (15 minutes ) / What may not touch the reflector? (ANYTHING. (Nothing is to touch it))

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