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Territorial Force Centenary
The last weekend of February sees two significant anniversaries celebrated by the TF.
The 4 Otago Southland Battalion Group 150th anniversary and perhaps lesser known, the Centenary of the Territorial Force.
The 28 February 2010 marks one hundred years of the Defence Act 1909 coming into force, establishing the Territorial Force (TF) as we know of it today.
The 52 year-old volunteer system that preceded the TF was disbanded and organised into geographical groups that created a standardised national force along the lines of the British Territorial Army...
It sounds so complicated, teaching soldiering skills to personal that have 12 different languages, 12 different weapon systems and 12 different skills sets but they should present no problem for a secondary school teacher used to teaching classes containing many different language groups.In fact it “Should be a lot of fun” admits SSGT Sean Cassidy (34), a teacher at Kings High School in Dunedin, when asked about his upcoming six month deployment to the Sinai with the MFO. “My job as a physical/outdoors education teacher at Kings and the roles have I undertaken in the army have been very similar but at times they have also been very different. The big difference is here when I ask for something to be done it happens, but in the classroom you have to motivate the students to do it, so I’m expecting a range of challenges in the Sinai.”