RDS Mod A - What to Wear?

[BGriff]

I am just about to start my mod A, for HFRS. The course details are pretty vague as they haven’t loaded onto moodle, I have been told to turn up in civies on the first day but this seem odd as I have full uniform?

[Cardiff_Fire]

I had to turn up in civvies for every single day of my wholetime training. The argument being, you're not a trained FF yet and if you're seen in public in that uniform (car crash on the way home etc) the public will see a firefighter and expect as much.

[KentNewt]

Yep what Cardiff_Fire says, in Kent it's the same, get changed into uniform when get to TC and back into civvies before heading home

[HB2016]

When I did my MOD A at HFRS 7 years ago, we had to turn up in uniform so, this seems odd.

[Firestorm]

Doesn't seem odd to me, you're not a firefighter yet, wearing the uniform comes with a few responsibilities, you may be asked to help with something en-route you wouldn't have the first clue to resolve. Wear the uniform when your confident of your abilities, not before.

[HB2016]

In Hants, they will have been doing online learning and attending drills in uniform (I'm not stating that it makes your qualified for any duties). You then attend your MOD A and it was turn up in uniform. That's the only reason I mention it's odd as they've been doing it that way for some time.