What do RAF Gunners do in a typical day?

What do RAF Gunners do in a typical day?

A typical day on base in the UK can consist of a lot of physical training. You could find yourself going on a nice, easy 10-mile run. Obviously, you've got to be physically robust, so the physical side of life every day is consistent. Assault courses, running with a burden on your back, doing tabs with machine guns, etc. And you could also find yourself on the range firing a number of different weapon systems, keeping your skills and drills up to a very high professional standard, making sure you can shoot the target like you're aiming at. And you could find yourself in the field on exercise learning different infantry skills, how to survive, and how to operate effectively as an RAF regiment gunner and how to take enemy positions and go down the range. It's almost like a make-believe war in the UK, in a sense, and that's called field firing. Or you could find yourself doing a survival exercise abroad or pre-deployment training to then go away on operations.