Residents will have an opportunity to test their personal limits at a weekend training exercise with the Royal Bermuda Regiment this month.

The RBR said fieldcraft exercises, team-building activities and basic physical training will be on the agenda for the package, which runs from 9am on January 25 to about midday on January 26.

The event will be held with Warwick Camp as a base, and the “temporary soldiers” will travel into the field to locations around the island where their “mettle may be tested” in multiple scenarios and environments.

Major Dwight Robinson, the RBR’s Regimental Career Management Officer, said the exercise was designed to not only entertain participants over the weekend, but also to provide a chance to be among the training troops to people who may be curious or apprehensive about joining.

He said participants will be able to “see exactly what service is like” without the pressure of feeling obligated to an initial three-year service contract.

Major Robinson added: “Participants can interact with our resources, engage with and ask questions of the training staff to get a real feel for what it is like to be a serving soldier.

“They will test their personal limits and experience the character development, co-operation, comradeship and esprit de corps which exists in the regiment.

“They will come away from the day with a sense of accomplishment and adventure, achieved on the basis of what we have planned to be an enjoyable experience.”

The regiment said: “The schedule is expected to lead participants into unfamiliar territory, where they will be encouraged to get comfortable with being uncomfortable — but still feel supported.

“They will recognise within themselves the traits required to be successful members of the team-oriented RBR.”

Major Robinson added: “We will challenge them with hands-on, real-to-life, touch-and-feel exercises of soldiering that constitute part of the learning and preparation for operations, skills and drills in self-sustainment and soldier security during field operations and, of course, fitness and drill.”

He said participants will be engaged with first aid lessons, basic fieldcraft, as well as team and individual command tasks.

They will be given a scenario and a limited supply of resources and must solve a puzzle without additional support, Major Robinson added.

The weekend event is targeted at physically and mentally robust residents between the ages of 18 and 52, who are legally resident in Bermuda.

It will be the final lead-in to next month’s recruitment training package, which will run from February 9 to February 21.

Guest workers must be able to seek employment, the regiment said.

• For more information or to join the Regiment, visit rbr.bm, call 238-1045 or WhatsApp 707-0353