Limited Service Volunteer (LSV) transcript - part one
Part one
Starts with promo.
Bus arrives. People jump off.
LSV participant: What’s up?!
Army personnel: Seeing them walk through the door it’s probably, what have we got here?
- A bit of a ragtag bunch
- Long hair
- Bandanas
- Big mops
- Pants down around their ankles
- Have no oomph in them at all...real low self esteem
- All of a sudden they’re accountable for their actions
- They’re not sure what they’ve got themselves into
Army personnel: Everybody up!
LSV participant: A rude awakening or a bit of a culture shock
Army personnel: No talking...look at the wall
LSV participant: I wanna stick it out
- I wanna go home
Army personnel: You push us in a negative way, we will push back harder
LSV participant: It was pretty scary
- To be honest I felt a bit scared
- Quite strict
- Bit of a culture shock
Army personnel: Feet together, arms by your side, heads straight
LSV participant: Hello Mum, I’m on TV
Army personnel: On the dry from drugs and alcohol...you are on the dry from sex while you are here
- Do what you’re told, when you’re told and how you’re told it
LSV participant: It’s not like home
- Strict but fair
Army personnel: Unless you’re told to do something, don’t do it...unless you’re told to do so do it
LSV participant: If you just listen you’re alright
- I’m actually liking the discipline
- I wouldn’t really call it a boot camp
Army personnel: Feel good putting in a hundred percent...
LSV participant: ...yes sir
- We have to push ourselves right to the limit
- And you’ll have so much fun
- Woohoo
- Yeah
- Woohoo
- You can change your life for the better
- It’s just giving young people a chance
- Burnham’s camp is number one
- Awesome experience, I recommend it to all of yous
Army personnel: Nike had it right, just do it
LSV participant: Just do it
- Experience of a lifetime
- Culture shock
- Scary
- Challenging
- Self esteem
- Life skills
- Self confidence
- Motivation
- Self discipline
Army personnel: It is not boot camp nor is it brat camp
LSV participant: It’s all about developing my goals, focusing my dreams and my aspirations
- No, nothing’s too tough for me
[GRAPHIC ON SCREEN] :
Line up to change your life – Limited Service Volunteer
Army personnel: This is the mission of the course...LSV Company is to deliver training to unemployed young people in order to increase the number of young New Zealanders entering employment or further training.
- LSV course is based on what the military does best, which is to develop people. It is a life changing thing where it opens up opportunities for them, it makes them realise they’re capable of doing a lot more than they thought they were. And the basic core competencies we aim for are: self discipline, co-operation, confidence and pride.
- A lot of these guys that come here have been put down and feel a bit of negativity about their future. What we’re trying to establish here is to change that perception and get them back on the right road to success in themselves.
- This course for the next six weeks, going to challenge you. A lot of them have a loss of motivation, not quite sure where they wanna go from here. At the end of six weeks of the positive training, a lot of them don’t want to go home.
- For those that graduate, 70% of them get off the benefit within 2 months. So it’s pretty successful.
LSV participant: Attention!
Army personnel: It is a military course.
- Evening ladies.
- So it’s based on discipline.
- Dust on top of the wardrobe...dust also in the bottom of this drawer.
- For anyone who thinks, yeah, holiday camp, then they’re going to get a shock. But it’s not boot camp either. It’s not designed to turn them into soldiers, it’s designed to give them some positive changes that they can then use when they go home.
- Feet together, arms by your sides. Just so you’re aware of what’s going on, you’re going to have a drug search.
- Drugs are not to be brought into military camp. The course is also dry, there is no alcohol throughout the whole course. But that’s also a positive thing as well. A few of the young people come here and use this as a chance to get off the substances they’re on.
LSV participant: I was like a sheep, I’d just follow the leader and just drunk everyday and smoked and I wasn’t doing well in my life and I was getting nowhere. It all worked out to be pretty good, I wasn’t drinking and all that so I really felt good.
(Officer calls out command and trainees respond)...
Army personnel: No, no no...that drill was shocking!
- The parade ground itself is a tapu area. It’s now also a training ground for drill. What comes out of that is obedience, alertness and it forms the basis of team work.
- When you bring that left foot forward you raise the knee and you drive that heel in so hard that you leave a dent and they can feel the earthquake down in the South Island.
LSV participant: The first day marching was shocking.
Army personnel: Arm swings straight through front to rear......(various other commands)....halt!
We didn’t know how to march
Army personnel: Once I’ve halted you, do not move!
LSV participant: We didn’t know the commands...what was expected of us
Army personnel: And march away three paces...don’t fidget.
LSV participant: We didn’t know how to do turns.
- We’ve done a lot of practice with drill. It’s been some hard work and some hard work from the staff put in.
Army personnel: Left turn! (Trainees respond).
LSV participant: But it’s going to look pretty awesome.
3,2,1 go!
Army personnel: Here at LSV company we do a lot of outdoor activities. Physical activity, team building type activities also.
- Come on!
Army personnel: For example we have the confidence course which is a good one. All the trainees look forward to doing the confidence course.
- A lot of the trainees are afraid of heights so it gets them out of their comfort zone, sort of a physical stress and the trainees are excited to do it right from the start.
LSV participant: And we started getting to know everybody then that made us want to stay.
- It was their support and the encouragement that they gave us.
- Come you can do it! Come on! Woohoo!
- You’re a good mate, I fell in the water too.
- That’s another good one, the tug of war because there’s a bit of team rivalry in there and it’s a chance for some of the guys to show their brawn and some of the ladies as well.
Army personnel: What we like to see is trainees supporting and giving positive encouragement to their team mates.
LSV participant: I’m shaking already.
- Whoa it’s quite far away when you’re up here!
Army personnel: Also we have the high ropes course here, it can be quite scary for some trainees who are up there. It comes down to trusting your equipment and knowing that you are safe.
- Go!
LSV participant: The best experience I’ve had was, ah, doing high ropes, especially the big swing.
- A couple of days ago we went rock climbing, which was the first experience for a few of us.
- Pretty scary.
- Woohoo! Buzzing bro.
- Come straight down, all good...I’ve got you.
- I’m nervous still, like freaking out that I actually did it.
- Proud of you girl.
- I was a bit nervous, but I’m over that now.
- After you’ve done it you feel bloody marvellous. You feel like you’re on top of the world.
Ends.
