Joint Service Mountain Training Centre

Joint Service Mountain Training Centre
HQ JSMTC
Plas Llanfair in March 2007
Location within Wales
General information
Type	Military training centre
Address	Plas Llanfair, Llanfairpwllgwyngyll, LL61 6NY
Coordinates	53.218°N 4.2°W / 53.218; -4.2
Elevation	20 m (66 ft)
Current tenants	British military forces
Completed	1999
Inaugurated	April 1999
Client	Ministry of Defence
Owner	Ministry of Defence

The Joint Service Mountain Training Centre (JSMTC) is the British military training centre for its armed forces that delivers adventurous training (AT).

History

Adventurous training across all three British armed forces was made tri-service in 1999. The site opened in April 1999. An indoor climbing centre was added in July 2000.

Function

It supplies parts of the Armed Forces Adventurous Training Scheme (AFATS) for Joint Service Adventurous Training (JSAT). Since 2014, adventurous training instructors have been trained at the site (Joint Service Adventurous Training Instructors, or JSATI).

Structure

The site is situated around a half-mile west of the Britannia Bridge, off the A4080. Llanfairpwll railway station is nearby, to the west. A 400 kV transmission line crosses east–west, close by to the north. The Army Mountaineering Association is headquartered at the site.

Adventurous Training is the responsibility of the Adventurous Training Group (ATG).

Other sites

• Army Adventure Training Bavaria (JSMTC Bavaria), has skiing at its Alpine Training Centre (ATC) in Oberstdorf in the Allgäu Alps
• JSMTC Ballachulish
• JSMTC Scotland

See also

• List of mountain warfare forces
• Mountain Training Association (MTA)

External links

• Army Adventurous Training