Bad luck, JCAP.
Pick yourself up, recover slowly and get back down there mate.
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I'll have to do the whole application again i think.
Take a cloth with you when you goto RT. When you have inspection you'll need there to be 0% dust on all surfaces around your area. Wet the cloth and clean surfaces with that rather than a dry cloth (obviously). It does the job 10x faster and means that there won't be any dust left over for the Sgt to pick up on..
Your early morning jobs become alot easier when you specify a time for your designated cleaning team to be there rather than doing it when you are ready.
Get a JML clothes brush for your berret. (Woolworths)
Buy a heavy duty black permanent marker pen as the ones they supply are crap and take a while to mark anything. Also get hold of a white marker too rather than relying on tip-ex which is extremely slow and ineffective.
They only give you one bivvy pole, so get hold of one before you go down there. Get hold of a speed lighter, one of those blue flame ones. Get hold of some 'king of Shaves' shaving oil. Get a camping toothbrush/paste kit. Get some light tent pegs off ebay. Get a small sewing kit. Get a small med-kit. Make sure you have a small mag light with a red lens, white light = death. A small hand mirror is a must too. These are all things that you will be told to buy in exeter anyway.
If someone is struggling to get their stuff squared away, help him . One thing that often pissed me off in foundation was people lying on their beds because they had finished all of their admin rather than helping those other lads who were struggling.
Take a 4 plug extension cable with you. Unfortunately in the foundation block if you end up in one of the areas that has a lack of plugs (or none at all in my case) you'll end up having to iron away from your locker which is very annoying and often there wont be enough plugs to go around. Also, a good iron (£30+) is essential as you'll be spending hours with it. The last thing you want is it to fail on you. The ones in the naffi are over priced and shite apparently. Take good care of it as a few lads had their knocked off their ironing boards.
Take earplugs! These are a life saver because in a room of 50 people itys often hard to ignore the noises of snoring/lads getting up to piss/sqeaking beds/ that bloody double door!/ lads shouting in their sleep / telling each other to shut the f*** up!
Don't worry about oversleeping, you won't, trust me!
Get into the habbit of wearing flip-flops where ever you go when you are not weaing anything on your feet. This is extremely important.
Take a keyring that you can easily identify for when you keys go in the bucket - its better to know exactly where your keys are without having to check each one for your tip-ex mark.
Take a look at the display locker and get all of the small items sorted out before anything else (correctly placed and sorted). That way your locker starts to take shape and you wont have the last-minute panic looking for all the small items.
The pin in your berret needs to be brasso'ed every night so don't bloody miss it or you'll be in for it!
Get a sharp knife that'll be able to puncture through leather as the berret material at the front where the badge goes is extremely tough (the issued knife is about as sharp as a butter knife
)
Be prepared for how crap the foundation block is. Once you are in your 6 man accomodation it will get easier. Its extemely tough when you are given a very small amount of time to get from the outside through the doors of the foundation block, find your bed, put your pt rig on, lock your locker and get back outside. You'll be doing alot of press-ups.
When its lights out, its lights out! Make sure you are prepared for bed 5 mins before the sgt arrives to switch them out or you'll be doing press-ups blk naked.
Empty your water bottle when you put it back in your locker or you'll have it poured over your head.
Take the Exeter locals with a bit of humor, being called a "f***ing squaddy" where ever you walk is all part of the fun
Shorts have to be ironed in a certain way so best get practiced before you go: http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r143 ... CREASE.jpg
Treat the civilian staff with respect even if it seems like some of them hate you for some strange reason
Disrespect has a habit of making its way back to your Sgt 
On the second day you re-do gym test 1 from the prmc, except this time you do everything to a bleep. Bleeptest first, press-ups done to a bleep (bend stretch, bend, stretch - 60 max), sit-ups done to a bleep (85 max) and then pull-ups to a bleep (each bleep signifies either bend or stretch).
When i think of more ill let you know.
Take a cloth with you when you goto RT. When you have inspection you'll need there to be 0% dust on all surfaces around your area. Wet the cloth and clean surfaces with that rather than a dry cloth (obviously). It does the job 10x faster and means that there won't be any dust left over for the Sgt to pick up on..
Your early morning jobs become alot easier when you specify a time for your designated cleaning team to be there rather than doing it when you are ready.
Get a JML clothes brush for your berret. (Woolworths)
Buy a heavy duty black permanent marker pen as the ones they supply are crap and take a while to mark anything. Also get hold of a white marker too rather than relying on tip-ex which is extremely slow and ineffective.
They only give you one bivvy pole, so get hold of one before you go down there. Get hold of a speed lighter, one of those blue flame ones. Get hold of some 'king of Shaves' shaving oil. Get a camping toothbrush/paste kit. Get some light tent pegs off ebay. Get a small sewing kit. Get a small med-kit. Make sure you have a small mag light with a red lens, white light = death. A small hand mirror is a must too. These are all things that you will be told to buy in exeter anyway.
If someone is struggling to get their stuff squared away, help him . One thing that often pissed me off in foundation was people lying on their beds because they had finished all of their admin rather than helping those other lads who were struggling.
Take a 4 plug extension cable with you. Unfortunately in the foundation block if you end up in one of the areas that has a lack of plugs (or none at all in my case) you'll end up having to iron away from your locker which is very annoying and often there wont be enough plugs to go around. Also, a good iron (£30+) is essential as you'll be spending hours with it. The last thing you want is it to fail on you. The ones in the naffi are over priced and shite apparently. Take good care of it as a few lads had their knocked off their ironing boards.
Take earplugs! These are a life saver because in a room of 50 people itys often hard to ignore the noises of snoring/lads getting up to piss/sqeaking beds/ that bloody double door!/ lads shouting in their sleep / telling each other to shut the f*** up!
Don't worry about oversleeping, you won't, trust me!Get into the habbit of wearing flip-flops where ever you go when you are not weaing anything on your feet. This is extremely important.
Take a keyring that you can easily identify for when you keys go in the bucket - its better to know exactly where your keys are without having to check each one for your tip-ex mark.
Take a look at the display locker and get all of the small items sorted out before anything else (correctly placed and sorted). That way your locker starts to take shape and you wont have the last-minute panic looking for all the small items.
The pin in your berret needs to be brasso'ed every night so don't bloody miss it or you'll be in for it!
Get a sharp knife that'll be able to puncture through leather as the berret material at the front where the badge goes is extremely tough (the issued knife is about as sharp as a butter knife
)Be prepared for how crap the foundation block is. Once you are in your 6 man accomodation it will get easier. Its extemely tough when you are given a very small amount of time to get from the outside through the doors of the foundation block, find your bed, put your pt rig on, lock your locker and get back outside. You'll be doing alot of press-ups.
When its lights out, its lights out! Make sure you are prepared for bed 5 mins before the sgt arrives to switch them out or you'll be doing press-ups blk naked.
Empty your water bottle when you put it back in your locker or you'll have it poured over your head.
Take the Exeter locals with a bit of humor, being called a "f***ing squaddy" where ever you walk is all part of the fun
Shorts have to be ironed in a certain way so best get practiced before you go: http://i143.photobucket.com/albums/r143 ... CREASE.jpg
Treat the civilian staff with respect even if it seems like some of them hate you for some strange reason
Disrespect has a habit of making its way back to your Sgt On the second day you re-do gym test 1 from the prmc, except this time you do everything to a bleep. Bleeptest first, press-ups done to a bleep (bend stretch, bend, stretch - 60 max), sit-ups done to a bleep (85 max) and then pull-ups to a bleep (each bleep signifies either bend or stretch).
When i think of more ill let you know.
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Its not hard when you know how to do it - it will become second nature by the 3rd day.eagleeye wrote:Whats it like Ironing your shorts,is it hard because it dont look like it but the RM have standards so they'll make it hard
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Once everything starts falling into place, all you have to do is follow orders. I didn't get a very good experience obviously so i can't really say - physically my back wouldnt have coped in its current state but mentally i definately would have been able to cope. Hardest part for me was getting up in the mornings.eagleeye wrote:How was you finding RT do rekon you could have coped with it for 32 weeks?
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You can be sure of something mate, you will become a stronger person if you fix your back and then go and achieve your green beret. That will show real character.
Mitch
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