Do some people really beleive a lad is taken from civvie street and then considered ready for Ops in just 12 WEEKS come on for f*ck sake.
NO ONE serving in the Army as done just 12 weeks basic training. The 12 weeks basic is just phase 1 of a 2 phase basic training course. And depending what your joining depends on how long phase 2 is. ie Infantry do phase 2 Infantry training, Engineers do Engineer phase 2 training, Artillary do Artillary and so on and so on. Add phase 1 and 2 together then you get the real lenth of basic training a lad in the Army as done. And you will find a lad joining the Infantry will only be afew weeks short of 32 weeks.
Do you really believe the lads fighting in Iraq and Afgan are twonks who have just done 12 weeks marching and ironing kit. Do you think the Paras have only done 12 weeks or a Royal Engineer or a Recce soldier like myself.
Its just like RM basic training, you have a top field phase then a bottom field phase am I wrong. Would a RM Recruit be considered ready after just completing the top field no he would'nt.
Im sorry if this causes an argumentive responce but im not going to take cr*p comments from people who dont know what they are saying. And before someone says this is a RM forum I just want to say I didnt take any crap from a Bootneck in the Galley at Bastion so I wont in a Internet forum.
