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Wicked diary JCAP3. I enjoyed reading it.

One question though, in one of the other PRMC diaries, it says that they got a bollocking for encouraging each other? How come it was tollerated this time? Or is just how the training staff feel? it seems that way and some of it sounds a laugh, i laughed at

JCAP3 wrote:one lad was made to do loads of press-ups and star-jumps screaming “I’m a ****” because he put his hand up when they asked if we were cold

Thats class!!

I imagine '****' begins with a 'c'?

Once again, awesome diary matey, good info and all the best to you for RT. Get stuck in there.

Wicked.

You need to post more, more posts more bullets.

Edit: I loved that bit to AJ, must have been the funniest site ever when cold and tired, must f been a nightmare for whoever was forced todo it though.

What a great crack those guys must be ey!

Nice diary JCAP3!
Can't wait to get down there myself

Best of luck at RT

Quality diary mate i really enjoyed reading that and it sounds like a good hard laugh down there aswel .Glad you enjoyed it and again well done for passing it mate. I'm hoping to get myself down there asap as i passed my PJFT today finally

Good luck in training lad and all the best

Macca

Good diary fella. Empathise with the frost covered high obs!

Cheers lads, appreciated!

AJ: We wern't told off at any stage for giving each other encouragement, the occassional "COME ON LADS!" right infront of the corporals was fine. Even when we were being ordered outside with the corporal counting "5...4....3....2...1", we were screaming at each other to "hurry the f**k up, RUN!"

You have to keep high spirits about you all the way through, interact with everyone you can and help out the lad next to you when its needed. In my opinion this is the most important reasons for why i am joining. As one of the week 29 lads told us, "you can't get through training alone".

JCAP3 wrote:Cheers lads, appreciated!

AJ: we were screaming at each other to "hurry the f**k up, RUN!"

You may as well tape record that for the many, many times you'll need to say it in RT!

GGHT wrote:

JCAP3 wrote:Cheers lads, appreciated!

AJ: we were screaming at each other to "hurry the f**k up, RUN!"

You may as well tape record that for the many, many times you'll need to say it in RT!

Can't wait!

GGHT, would you recommend going to RT less fit than i was on my PRMC? In light of what you said in another post. Also, i'v been ill because of the temperatures and the head dipping bit. What happens if you have flu? Do you just have to get on with it?

Cheers

Well done JCAP3 and good effort putting the diary up. I enjoyed it mate.

It all sounds familiar but when it was the PRC we only did one Gym test and were ragged around the endurance course (log runs etc.) instead. Gym test 2 sounds fun but hard work - PTI's are pretty good at that. It always tickled me when lads were yelled at to "stop 'kin shiverring"

Do you have a safety harness on the death slide?

Good feeling to pass eh? But it's probably dawned on you that the 29 lads who didn't make it with the troop you mentioned had all passed the PRMC

Yeah the deathslide has a safety harness, though its a pain in the arse to unhook yourself. It's a good feeling to pass at the same time as being scared shit-less about going back there for the full 8 months With the POC you didn't have to worry about joining for a few years afterwars but with this its a matter of weeks!

Yep the PRMC is just a taste of the good things to come. I'm glad i didn't have to do the endurance course again as that was shite on my POC (as i was less fit and the other lads seemed to cope so much better than me)

It's easy to see why you would give up but we were told that most lads were injured and backtrooped.

I noticed a cage around the ladder up to the slide when I went back to CTC to see an old oppo a few years back - that was the worst bit - full of nerves pulling yourself up and nothing to stop you falling back. Even with a harness I can't imagine it would be pleasant going down there on a piece of string if you let go of the strop

I hated the PRC mate - two of us got on the train and said "f*** that for a game of soldiers" and vowed we'd never be back (both passed). But I was intrigued so I went down for RT and saw the fella from the train (then an old sweat from week 4 ). "Thought you weren't coming" says he "Yeah, not much on so I thought I'd give it a go, how about you?" "Same" In the end only five passed out from that PRC of 44 (including me and him) which wasn't bad going because only 9 passed the PRC.

In RT it's definitely harder but remember you're not on a daily/hourly pass/fail routine. You'll have good and bad days (everyone does) but that said, too many bad days and you know the score. I can't say don't worry because I did but you'll laugh about it in the end and you'll learn to take it all in your stride and that's a priceless feeling mate

Sully wrote:I noticed a cage around the ladder up to the slide when I went back to CTC to see an old oppo a few years back - that was the worst bit - full of nerves pulling yourself up and nothing to stop you falling back. Even with a harness I can't imagine it would be pleasant going down there on a piece of string if you let go of the strop

I hated the PRC mate - two of us got on the train and said "f*** that for a game of soldiers" and vowed we'd never be back (both passed). But I was intrigued so I went down for RT and saw the fella from the train (then an old sweat from week 4 ). "Thought you weren't coming" says he "Yeah, not much on so I thought I'd give it a go, how about you?" "Same" In the end only five passed out from that PRC of 44 (including me and him) which wasn't bad going because only 9 passed the PRC.

In RT it's definitely harder but remember you're not on a daily/hourly pass/fail routine. You'll have good and bad days (everyone does) but that said, too many bad days and you know the score. I can't say don't worry because I did but you'll laugh about it in the end and you'll learn to take it all in your stride and that's a priceless feeling mate

Thanks Sully, great advice, really appreciated. The worst part is still climbing up in my opinion - now you have to hold the strop and the harness while trying to climb up with one and a half hands

I'm looking forward to Recruit training but at the same time i'm not (the ironing and personal admin will get to me). Like i said in the diary, you get the impression that you are a worthless peice of s**t - you'll have to tell me whether that changes at any stage (as you're atleast past the first hurdle) - that got to me a little but i got used to it pretty quickly suprisingly.

Thanks

you get the impression that you are a worthless peice of s**t

But you are mate - you're a nod (as good as) The lowest species on earth and lower than whale sh*t But you won't be one forever. Best thing is dont take it personally mate.

I had stacks of grief from one corporal in RT (ex perce, Napoleon syndrome) and once he dressed me down on a parade for having a degree when I joined up (not too common then) "I've got one of these" says he pointing to his lid. I just looked at him but in my mind I was saying "Yes you cnut, and in 27 weeks I'll have one of those as well so do your worst". The turning point for me came about week 17 but I did have a fair bit of grief in the early days.

Nice Diary JACP3, and once again well done for getting that pass.

In a weird way i actually enjoyed my PRMC rather alot, probably because i felt a sense of "home" there

RT starts on Monday