You can apply for 21 & 23 straight from civvy street however you cannot join SBS(R) unless you have previous military experience. If you apply to join 21 or 23 straight from civvy street however, you may find they send you to do the CIC before you progress with aptitude etc. Your best bet is to ring ...

Bill, good luck mate. The wait will be worth it when you finally get in. What grade did you get at ADSC? Cheers TacLite, I can't wait to start. It's gonna be a mental 28 weeks training, you got any tips to make life a bit easier wilst in training?

They do their phase 1 at bassingbourn mate.

I think regardless of what people say, every infantry regiment is overmanned some obviously more so than others. Just to give you a rough idea, I'm going grenadier guards and last time I spoke to my acio there was about 54 people who'd passed adsc and were awaiting a start date. Have you passed adsc ...

Alright lads. Just out of interested is anybody waiting to go to catterick and joining the Guards? I'm going Grenadiers, passed my selection last month and just waiting for a date to start now.