Yeah speaking from this time last year, some London lads got theirs on the very first weekend after the Phase 1 course, but they had a split troop with half of them earning it and half still wearing blue lids. I've forgotten how Bristol did it because at the air show some of them had them and some didn't but I know they had 2 troops contributing to that event. At Mersey I think we earned ours Halloween weekend (1st November) then were awarded them right before getting on the bus on the Sunday. We did 6 milers before that but that weekend was "the" pass/fail event which decided whether we got it or got backtrooped.
