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Finally some good news :)

When it's up to full capacity, there's a weekly intake of up to 80 (ish), so nine weeks worth of 80 ish is feasible. Whether intakes of that size are envisaged with a reduced predicted manning requiremnt remains to be seen.

There's talk RN Officer Initial Naval Training maybe co-located in the not too distant future (only 3 entries per year) & it's possible the length of Initial Naval Training maybe inreased by a week or two.

We have been reliably informed that the rating intake for this financial year will be around the 1000 mark rising to about 1450 next year with an average intake of between 50 and 60 personnel per entry. The Initial Rating Training (IRT) package is in the process of being completely re-written to take account of the results of the Hutton report and will include far more military elements than in previous incarnations. Basic training is to be renamed Initial Naval Training (INT) and will be 10 weeks long and delivered to ratings from the first entry in May. Officers will also undertake the exact same package located at Raleigh before moving to BRNC to complete their more officer specific phase one training. Ratings and Officers will not be in mixed classes and the first officer entry that is envisaged to conduct INT is programmed for September of this year as a pilot programme to begin with. The programme is going to change immensely and hopefully will be far better structured and enable instructional staff to ensure the best training is delivered and the recruits gain as much as possible from their phase one training.
 
Yep that's pretty much what I was inferring.

There's also speculation as to whether INT will remain at Raleigh in the longer term, perhaps eventually move to BRNC, maybe even Sultan and even talk of Raleigh being handed over to Royal in the longer term.

The long term possibilities are seemingly endless, but beyond the short term probabilities, it's anyone's guess.
 
Exactly what we've been told Ninja, the costs involved in moving phase one training from Raleigh are phenomenal apparently and as for the Royals taking over Raleigh juniors courses are going to be run from Raleigh soon as Lympstone cant cope with the numbers needing to complete the course. If it goes to Sultan you never know they might knock all the old tiffs blocks down and build some decent accom as Sultan seems to be the only place that has had no investment with the move to the tri-service engineering college in Wales being used as an excuse not to update the place.
 
I understand the move to St Athans (Tri service) has now been shelved. So it appears that the Sultan option will not now happen. For the forseeable future it sems that INT will be taking place at Raleigh. There have been various options tabled, but it appears that current training schools will continue to operate in a similar role to what they current are.

But as always watch this space.

SM
 

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