I smell bullshit.

Yeah thanks for that pointless reply. No need to bump this thread, i was corrected previously.

http://www.arrse.co.uk - Check out the recruit and health & Fitness forum's, these Q's are commonly asked.

I personally wouldnt say anything, if its not in your medical report and your GP doesnt know about it you shouldnt get defered. Then as soon as your officially in the army you can get it seen to then.
However if it's worse than you say it is, get it checked out.

If you do declaire it, dont worry ...

Sounds pretty legit to me, you do 2 days in the army seclection programme. Its basicly just to see if your 'soldier' material before you enter basic training (costing money, time & effort).
The Army one consists of a medical assessment, team activities, fitness/strenth tests etc etc followed by a ...

On another note, why not just give it a go! You have an option to leave anyway (30 days into BT i think). If you like it hey it go for it, if not you've not lost anything and you can go do uni or whatever! You don't wanna be thinking in time to come 'What if' etc.
Even though regimental life is so ...

I was never interestered in the army in my younger years untill i finished college and realised how shite office work and computing environments reeally were, after that i was always fully 100% committed to joining up.
I was told if your not 100% up for it then dont do it, theres a greater chance of ...

Bristol mate

Read my post again i think the key words are "dont hold me to this"... Thats just what ive heard

I read your post you mong, I wasn't holding you to anything, just explaining what a ridiculous comment your mate made and how you must have been solid to believe it.

Who cares, i was contributing on ...

I shouldnt think so, your recruiting officer will tell you all you need to know about grades/barb test scores! Personly i would go armoured (Being armoured myself), as you get to crew the new challenger2 based Titan & Trojan vehicles (Awesome peice of kit, was at Bovi when they were testing them).

Read my post again i think the key words are "dont hold me to this"... Thats just what ive heard

Qualities not qualifications, I know MANY people that joined the army with nothing whatsoever, some even dropped out of school. I joined with after college into the Armoured Corps with no problem! There are a lot of regiments that require nothing to join, just go down your local AFCO and tell them ...

Heard the same from my 7RHA mate, apparently they giving them the wings anyway to fit in with the reg. Im not a para so dont hold me to it.

Maybe, what you want to know?