The Junior Non-Commissioned Officer Cadre is the first shot at promotion in the British Army. The exercise phase culminates in Sword Lane.
On the brink of exhaustion, the soldiers are put into a scenario where they are isolated from their comrades and must use their bayonets – which The Rifles refers to as swords – to defeat the enemy to survive.
The Rifles are the only Regiment to call it a sword. The rest of the British Army call it a bayonet.
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