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| Thread ID: 68698 | 2006-05-08 04:06:00 | territorial army | bonyatonya (10373) | PC World Chat |
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| 453164 | 2007-09-11 05:57:00 | Join your local volunteer fire brigade | joemac (9739) | ||
| 453165 | 2007-09-12 10:12:00 | There is a swim test once you are past basic training, it is more of a treading water and floatation test if anything. Happens every six months. I would encourage anyone who does know how to swim to go to the pools and learn. | rob_on_guitar (4196) | ||
| 453166 | 2007-09-12 12:49:00 | Go ahead and join-you will look back on it as a great experience - and it is relatively easy now compared to 50 years ago - in this politically correct modern age the Training NCOs are no longer allowed to grind new recruits down like they used to, they have to be nice or the lads may leave. I did 3 years in the TF infantry when I was a Uni student - enjoyed it, great life, and after graduating, I joined the Air Force as a an officer cadet and did 22 years. Would do the same again if one had ones life over again. | KenESmith (6287) | ||
| 453167 | 2007-09-12 19:41:00 | go for it I did my time, Plus some (RF) got to see a bit of the world. If you dont like it you can opt out, check with your recuiter on conditions of inlistment and discharge, during and after want was in my day Basic Trainig. And Waiouru is not as bad as some make out, I did two tours of 4 years each there. Plus all of my courses. |
beama (111) | ||
| 453168 | 2007-09-12 23:12:00 | hey , do you shower in your birthday suit with everyone else ? how hard is the fitness training? If this worries you then you are not the right sort to join. On the other hand if you do join and put your heart into it then you will soon find things that used to worry you no longer do. 56 years ago I was made to join the British army for two years. I joined as a wimp. Put 4 stone on in two years and left a much fitter more confident fatter wimp. All youngsters (including girls) should be made to have this experience. Looking back I realise in my family I was the first male for umpteen generations to have not actually fought (during the war like all civilians I was on the receiving end though). My son is the first male to have not been called up. I think now he regrets it. He has been visiting lots of the memorial site cemeteries etc in Europe and is more interested in our families military history than I ever thought he would be. Tom |
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