Thanks, that sounds like a good plan, been keeping the RAF Gunners in mind since they have 29 as max age presuming I ever get past the eye thing. If not I'll just have to console myself that the FCA (Irish Reserves) have the better looking cammo pattern and the Styer AUG is just so much prettier ...

Just want to recommend an excellent book called 'A rumor of war' by Phil Caputo. He was one of the first marines into Vietnam before the war had fully broken out and was one of the last Americans to leave at the end of the war as a journalist. After reading this it is very easy to understand how ...

Im very short sighted around -9/-10 diopters or whatever there called.
Other then being short sighted my eyes are perfectly healthy, good nightvision and not a hint of colourblindness.
I was 26 last October 25th so If they pulled that whole come back in a year thing I will be to old execpt for RAF ...

On the Army careers site it says Lasik and PRK are acceptable, can anyone tell me if Lasek is also acceptable. I just got back from an assesment for laser surgery and they recommended Lasek, I told them the army only accepted Lasik and PRK and the told me that Lasek was virtually the same as PRK and ...

Thanks, vaguly remember doing something like that as a kid.

Just started training for the Gunner physical tests and am hoping ye can answer a few questions for me:

What exactly is a bleep test?
The army now allows recruits that have had Lasik or PRK eyesurgery, Is it the same for RAF Gunners?
Saw someone mention they needed to be at least 10 stone, is that ...