Third of four programmes 'To the Ground Return....'
On HMS Raleigh, the Royal Navy's bricks-and-mortar training ship, life is not all sweetness and light. The time has come for the Navy to send some of the Nozzers back to civvy street. A few of the lads are pleased to go, others are hurt and disillusioned. For those that remain, their next ambition is a run ashore - providing they can pass the chief petty officer's kit inspection.
Meanwhile, the girls visit a warship they'll never sail in and get their first taste of freedom with a weekend expedition on Dartmoor. Narrator Richard Denton Film editor CHRIS WARING Producer DAVID SPIRES