First Fusiliers Bolster Their Urban & Rural Warfare Skills During Exercise Cyclone Fist

The Salisbury Plain Training Area (SPTA) in Wiltshire provided the ideal setting for a recent mixed urban and rural training initiative, combining personnel from 1st Battalion the Royal Regiment of Fusiliers (1RRF) and trainees from the Combined Arms Manoeuvre School (CAMS).

CAMS is based at Warminster, Wiltshire and delivers specialist weapons training to Officers and Soldiers of the Field Army.

This initiative forms part of the new three-phase Land Training System (LTS), which aims to improve the training of our soldiers and prepare them to fight and win wars on land.

LTS has three elements which progressively elevate soldiers from foundational skills to operational effectiveness in complex environments, ensuring the British Army maintains high combat readiness:

Tradewind - Focuses on individual and collective training, giving soldiers the core competencies needed.

Cyclone - Builds on Tradewind, with more complex scenario-based exercises – Cyclone integrates other support functions such as logistics and fires. The aim is to encourage soldiers to refine their tactical skills and decision-making in more dynamic contexts. Each year, every sub-unit of the British Army must take part in a Cyclone event. This part integrates trade tactical training, modernisation, special to arms training and validation in a combined arms context.

Storm - Involves high intensity, brigade-level training in near-realistic combat scenarios. Storm tests resilience, adaptability and strategic coordination which aims to prepare forces for deployment and combat conditions with the highest readiness.

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