Training intensified as the shadow of war loomed larger with frequent long route marches and exercises at battalion and brigade levels.
During the next few days the battalion undertook route marches around the island.
Almost all of them lasted for an hour and all of them even had route marches on the streets.
Route marches and other intensive training were carried out during the winter months.
But there will be no long, dreary route marches.
Apart from occasional route marches and similar exercises near the sea coast, they did not take part in military activities.
There will be, perhaps, well-publicised cases of men on long route marches coming to grief.
But most route marching is done as part of the unit's operational training.
