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Naval Personnel and Training Branch has announced that Naval Reserve (NR) recruit training has recommenced.

This marks a milestone for the integration of Reserve personnel into the Total Force and has been made possible after months of work by Navy Personnel and Training staff from Workforce Management, the Office of Chief Staff Officer (Reserves), Initial Training and Leadership Management, Training Service Faculty and the Recruit School.

The ultimate goal of recruit training is for Permanent Navy (PN) and NR recruits alike to obtain core Defence and Navy skills from which foundation a Navy career can be built.

The NR Recruit Course, as it has been titled, is available to all NR personnel who have yet to complete their initial entry training obligation, and also to new entrants.

The course is structured to cater for both part-time and fulltime attendance, with NR recruits able to elect to attend recruit training for 11 consecutive weeks, if time permits, or to complete the course in three phases over a maximum of three years:

• Navy skills - three weeks residential;
• Distance learning - 12 months to complete 11 modules (equivalent to five days of attended training), and;
• Sea Service Skills - two weeks residential.
  
  The full-time course and all residential phases are conducted at Recruit School HMAS Cerberus.
  
  The aim in constructing the NR Recruit Course has been to keep it as closely aligned to the PN recruit course as possible; including the elements identified as ‘hard fun’ in project ‘Sea Eagle IV’.
  
  Hard fun activities include combat survivability, sea survival, a week at sea in MV Seahorse Spirit and ‘rites of passage’ activities, to name a few.
  
  This has been achieved by offering full time attendance for recruit training and restructuring training delivery to provide a mix of contact based and remote training.
  
  NR recruits will be imbedded within a PN general entry intake and will undertake their training alongside their PN colleagues. Nine reserve recruits undertook the pilot course to test the new arrangements with success.

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