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CJr94 Holmesdale Road 15 Jan 18 4.13pm
Anyone ever been? Looking into joining the army, would just like an insight / tales of experience if anyone has any!!
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Holmesdale Road 15 Jan 18 4.13pm

Anyone ever been? Looking into joining the army, would just like an insight / tales of experience if anyone has any!!

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elgrande bedford 15 Jan 18 5.17pm
Originally posted by CJr94 Anyone ever been? Looking into joining the army, would just like an insight / tales of experience if anyone has any!! Depends what you want out of it,if you go to Sandhurst it's for officer training. If you want good mates and adventure join the grunts. always a Norwood boy, where ever I live.
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bedford 15 Jan 18 5.17pm

Originally posted by CJr94

Anyone ever been? Looking into joining the army, would just like an insight / tales of experience if anyone has any!!

Depends what you want out of it,if you go to Sandhurst it's for officer training.
If you want good mates and adventure join the grunts.

always a Norwood boy, where ever I live.

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CJr94 Holmesdale Road 15 Jan 18 5.34pm
Originally posted by elgrande Depends what you want out of it,if you go to Sandhurst it's for officer training. If you want good mates and adventure join the grunts. After a career, want to get a degree it's something I regret f***ing up lol. I meet the criteria (on paper anyway) to apply for the Intelligence Officers post, something which definetley seems interesting. Just heard Sandhurst is quite brutal haha.
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Holmesdale Road 15 Jan 18 5.34pm

Originally posted by elgrande

Depends what you want out of it,if you go to Sandhurst it's for officer training.
If you want good mates and adventure join the grunts.

After a career, want to get a degree it's something I regret f***ing up lol. I meet the criteria (on paper anyway) to apply for the Intelligence Officers post, something which definetley seems interesting. Just heard Sandhurst is quite brutal haha.

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Temps Cronx 15 Jan 18 5.56pm
It depends on what you want out of it. If you want a career with plenty of opportunity for advancement, travel and adventure, and a great bit to add to your life’s CV, Army Officer is pretty hard to beat. To become one though is hard, no doubting it. You need to be fitter, as strong as, and generally better all round than your soldiers. You really need to stand out, and if you don’t you will be found out. pm me if you want to know more. I was an Instructor there for 2 years, back in the days of black powder but the place hasn’t changed. Dyslexics of the world, UNTIE!!
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It depends on what you want out of it. If you want a career with plenty of opportunity for advancement, travel and adventure, and a great bit to add to your life’s CV, Army Officer is pretty hard to beat.
To become one though is hard, no doubting it. You need to be fitter, as strong as, and generally better all round than your soldiers. You really need to stand out, and if you don’t you will be found out.
pm me if you want to know more. I was an Instructor there for 2 years, back in the days of black powder but the place hasn’t changed.

Dyslexics of the world, UNTIE!!

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thegreatlardino crawley/selsey 15 Jan 18 6.07pm
so you wanna be a crap hat officer...it helps if you are called rupert and your family owns half of dorset! Edited by thegreatlardino (15 Jan 2018 6.10pm) Sometimes I set out for Ludlow Sometimes I end up in Chepstow
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so you wanna be a crap hat officer...it helps if you are called rupert and your family owns half of dorset!

Edited by thegreatlardino (15 Jan 2018 6.10pm)

Sometimes I set out for Ludlow
Sometimes I end up in Chepstow

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CJr94 Holmesdale Road 15 Jan 18 6.23pm
Originally posted by thegreatlardino so you wanna be a crap hat officer...it helps if you are called rupert and your family owns half of dorset! Edited by thegreatlardino (15 Jan 2018 6.10pm) That was also the other thing I've been told lol. I am the exact opposite of that.
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Holmesdale Road 15 Jan 18 6.23pm

Originally posted by thegreatlardino

so you wanna be a crap hat officer...it helps if you are called rupert and your family owns half of dorset!

Edited by thegreatlardino (15 Jan 2018 6.10pm)

That was also the other thing I've been told lol. I am the exact opposite of that.

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elgrande bedford 15 Jan 18 7.49pm
One of my son's has been in the royal Anglian regiment for the past seven years,he is now a corporal and loves the life. He has seen action,but luckily there are no real flash points at the moment. He has been loads of places,some good some in his words "s***hole" but he has made mates that he will have for life. He's frontline so they are always away training somewhere. He is based at Woolwich at the moment so very handy for the palace( and because he is in the services gets a reduced rate season ticket...bonus. Edited by elgrande (15 Jan 2018 7.52pm) always a Norwood boy, where ever I live.
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bedford 15 Jan 18 7.49pm

One of my son's has been in the royal Anglian regiment for the past seven years,he is now a corporal and loves the life.
He has seen action,but luckily there are no real flash points at the moment.
He has been loads of places,some good some in his words "s***hole" but he has made mates that he will have for life.
He's frontline so they are always away training somewhere.
He is based at Woolwich at the moment so very handy for the palace( and because he is in the services gets a reduced rate season ticket...bonus.

Edited by elgrande (15 Jan 2018 7.52pm)

always a Norwood boy, where ever I live.

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thegreatlardino crawley/selsey 15 Jan 18 7.50pm
i was a bootneck back in the day, come to the dark side! Sometimes I set out for Ludlow Sometimes I end up in Chepstow
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crawley/selsey 15 Jan 18 7.50pm

i was a bootneck back in the day, come to the dark side!

Sometimes I set out for Ludlow
Sometimes I end up in Chepstow

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Forest Hillbilly in a hidey-hole 15 Jan 18 8.26pm
the large village of Bagshot is a couple of miles from Sandhurst. Bagshot, so named, because that's where they stored the bags of shot for Sandhurst, back in the days of gunpowder. Edward (the prince who dropped out of the marine training course) and Sophie live in Bagshot. Tad of irony there. Best of luck to the OP, go for it I disengage, I turn the page.
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the large village of Bagshot is a couple of miles from Sandhurst. Bagshot, so named, because that's where they stored the bags of shot for Sandhurst, back in the days of gunpowder.

Edward (the prince who dropped out of the marine training course) and Sophie live in Bagshot. Tad of irony there.

Best of luck to the OP, go for it

I disengage, I turn the page.

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Jimenez SELHURSTPARKCHESTER,DA BRONX 15 Jan 18 9.05pm
Originally posted by Temps It depends on what you want out of it. If you want a career with plenty of opportunity for advancement, travel and adventure, and a great bit to add to your life’s CV, Army Officer is pretty hard to beat. To become one though is hard, no doubting it. You need to be fitter, as strong as, and generally better all round than your soldiers. You really need to stand out, and if you don’t you will be found out. pm me if you want to know more. I was an Instructor there for 2 years, back in the days of black powder but the place hasn’t changed. Attachment: sargzulu.png (131.36Kb) Pro USA & Israel
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SELHURSTPARKCHESTER,DA BRONX 15 Jan 18 9.05pm

Originally posted by Temps

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Temps Cronx 15 Jan 18 9.23pm
Originally posted by Jimenez Lol unfortunately Attachment: 5CBFB7F6-99D9-4472-BF92-AA39B4A7BE85.jpeg (45.26Kb) Dyslexics of the world, UNTIE!!
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Cronx 15 Jan 18 9.23pm

Originally posted by Jimenez

Lol unfortunately

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