i have been told showers are shared at officers training.

plus the military bleep test is differet to the civvy school and half the entrants say that they can run for 3 mile in under 20 minutes and do 50 press ups but have never done a continuous work out one after the other.

thats just about ll you need to do aprt from determination and passing yor interviews. upper body strength isnt that important , being fit and healthy is. i just run daily(5miles) and go gym 4 times a week.

cheers, same to you mate.

they dont grope them lads as such,thats an urban myth, yes they get them out and give them a going over but grope, no, thats a lie, you are asked to a few lunges but thats about it , dont fret. you willhave to get them out sometime, and you will shower in groups.

raf is more about cleverness,determination and leadership skills, fitness is just a basic requirement to weed out the people who could pose possible health risks when they are older. just be healthy and have the right skills,

iam going in as navigator hopefully i have a friend going in the regiment. i jus need to pass a levels in maths and physics.

is anyone else going to apply for the RAF after they get there results this august, or are going through the derby or nottingham AFCO.

i was also told that on top of a 1.5 miler in 11 minutes and a level 9.1 on the bleep tet (shuttle run) a 5 miler in 35 minutes is needed. its hard and sounds wrong but a corporal told me this during my first enquiry

i am going through the derby afco, corporal gratton in there is very layed back

It seems i can locate the caps button contractor, sorry, last time i written it all and couldn't be arsed to change it , sorry mate,

married quarters are just like a normal quarter, on base or sometimes slightly off it with your rent deducted from your pay, they are about the size of a normal flat, sometimes bigger depending on what you are doing in the RAF, what your prepared to pay and which air base you are posted to.

WHAT DOES EVERYONE DO FOR THERE FITNESS ROUTINES, SO THAT THEY ARE AT PEAK FITNESS BEFORE JOINING. IF ANY OF YOU ARE IN TRAINING LET ME KNOW SO I KNOW WHAT TIMES I AM COMPETING WITH ON RUNNING AND WHAT AMOUNTS OF PRESS/SIT UPS I AM COMPETING WITH

FIELD TRAINING CONSISTS OF: RUNNING DISTANCES WITH MAPS REACJING CERTAIN POINTS IN A CERTAIN TIME. SURVIVAL SKILLS SUCH AS SETTING UP A BIVVY, FIRE LIGHTING, NIGHT WATCH, WHICH WILL CONSIST OF NIGHTS DOING 2 HOURS WATCH THEN TWO HOURS SLEEP ETC WEOPON TRAINING IS AT A MINIMUM DURING INITAIL TRAINING...

YOU HAVE TO KNOW ABOUT THE HISTORY OF THE RAF AS WELL WITH SOME KNOWLEDGE OF PLANES AND OTHER RAF MACHINERY, IT ALL HELPS THAT BIT BETTER TO SHOW THEM YOUR COMFORTABLE WITH WHAT YOU WANT TO DO AND AREN;T JUMPING IN AT THE DEEP END