this is a jolly good thread

good to see you're enjoying it

Assault course was one of the most physically draining things I've ever done!!! Hot summers day it was too...

I remember when I first went into training, started off at pirbright but due to a medical opinion of the doctor on my start of basic medical i was put on casuals

during my time in the stores counting blankets :lol: i was joined by a lad who was awol for 6 months after running away from the paras ...

Insight wkend is not a part of selection, however, I think if you have completed insight and go onto selection, they will hold some sort of record of your time there and it may help you out... A couple weeks after insight the para regt recruitment rang me to find out if i still wanted to join up and ...

aye pretty much, although they can be dodgy f@#k like.

i passed rsc and was medically discharged after something was picked up on by that doctor... but had not mattered to the doc at rsc.

I could sit here and brag all day about people I've knocked out over a doner kebab. I used to live near a training area and came in contact with squaddies every week in the pub, most times they were a good laugh. But there's the element in the army who are dickheads and feel the need to talk with ...

"Good luck to all of you new Jo's.
And remember, the beret is for life, pain is only temporary"

True, and not a better qualified man could say it!

I fear James may *already* be telling people he's a para... even though his basic isn't till January. If he f@#k it up and gets binned or jacks then I fear we may never benefit from his bottomless pit of military knowledge and common sense ever again - if he does pass then I fear we may never hear ...

I've got the pleasure of being at Pirbright.

The camp is relatively small, its daunting at first but you eventually get to know faces from other troops and have a bit crack in the wrvs at night (when time permits)..your first week is a doss, you do no phys just admin, kit issue, haircut, medical ...

In 3 pouches usually, theres a pouch for 4 mags, a pouch for water bottle and I cannot for the life of me remember what I put in the 3rd pouch! This is only during basic, I think many serving soldier prefer to use their own webbing/assualt vests.

Yes I've done some research and also just been to doctor's today, I have letters from doctors and a surgeon who can confirm I shouldn't have further problems, so fingers crossed for Jan.

I've been in basic for 2 weeks now and have been placed on sick leave until Jan, where I will get another medical.

I had an abcess on my coccyx two year ago, this is technically called a pinitidel sinusis or something, it flared up in Feb of this year and was successfully treated with Antibiotics ...

james (future Para) wrote:Standards must be dropping

Passed out yet, James?

james (future Para) wrote:NO! YOU NEED UNDER 9:18 TO BE A PARA, BUT YOU SHOULD BE AIMING FOR ATLEAST UNDER 9 MINUTES, AND A MINUMUM OF 50 PUSHUPS AND SITUPS, AIMING FOR OVER 70.

Look around at the million and one other insight course posts, and all will be revealed

He has spoken....

Lots of brown noses round here!