Chapter 15Newin was excited. This was his first duty spell as a fully-fledged Apprentice Officer. Throughout the long journey, the travellers had maintained a strict training programme for all manner of disciplines. This was an obvious necessity from the point of view of survival, not only on the ship, but subsequently when they arrived at their destination. However they had added a component uniquely theirs. In addition to training for specific tasks in the time-honoured manner, they implemented a programme of inter-disciplinary training which was the very antithesis of normal Service practice.
Many interesting things had occurred as a result of this, but the broad sweep of community policy meant nothing to Newin. All he knew was that like the other travellers’ children, he had taken som
