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In my younger days, I was in the St John Ambulance, and something no-one really talks about, is that to be promoted within that organisation, you have to go to (and pay for) "NCO training" after a certain point. I remember the course well... amongst the daily teachings of first aid, "crowd control," map reading... etc etc, every morning, they come and inspect your room, and run a white glove along surfaces like the top of the window frame (and it's your fault if it's dusty).
I remember getting there, first day and seeing a sign on the payphone "out of order" - in the days before mobile phones. Over the course, the tutors/organisers/staff at the hostel start having whispered conversations, slowly the rumour mill starts between the students, other subtle things are dropped in along the way until everyone is "ordered" to gather in small groups to finally be told what is going on, and why all the staff seem so worried.
"There's no easy way to tell you this, but a terrorist has escaped from the nearby prison and was observed stealing clothes off a washing line in the village. The police asked us to keep you all in here, and to minimise panic we didn't say anything. But new information has come to light, and we need volunteers..." - my hand gets raised - "... to try find the IEDs - turns out he was an explosives expert and we're told he's left multiple devices around as a way to avoid getting caught."
Of course, it was all poppycock, the "IEDs" were decorated bottles of washing up liquid... but none of us teenagers knew that it was all part of the leadership tests for the course.
Taught me a lot about observations and being depended upon by others, and was multiple decades ago.
EDIT: Oh, and the payphone worked perfectly fine, they confessed afterwards to them simply wanting to stop us phoning parents about what was going on.
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