Shit, thats a lot of tours! 3 tours of the Gulf already?! Are you sure?

You are normally limited to 9 months mobilised service in 3 years, 12 if you sign an extension.... We are just coming up to Telic 6 (which im on... woohoo) and so that means, if they have done 3 tours already, those lads must ...

Friend of mine transferred from our TA (RGJ, RRV) to a RMP lot in London, says its better!

mate, i strongly advise you don't do it.

They won't call you up, however i was 17 when i joined, and was studying my A levels, but the TA just took over my life and i dropped out. All i cared about was the TA, and i put in 150 working days in 8 months.. and now I am off to chilwell in two weeks for ...

Just lie, and you will be fine. NEvre had a headache, never felt breathless, never had a serious injury

Nope.
I have hardly ever come across TA int at all

Two of our blokes were attached to the RA (TA) for a tour of iraq last year, (we are infantry), they both came back saying that the whole unit they were attached to were doing purely an infantry job .... all be it not as well as the infantry ....... :wink:

But I believe that the way the RA works is ...

If i stabbed myself in both eyes i wouldnt be able to go on Telic in a few weeks would i

Combat Wombat, why did you ask about CIC? You going on it soon. Few of our blokes are going up there in Feb, and we have one going on Saturday.

I enjoyed CIC, i did it at Catterick, whilst living at Wathgill, I did fine, passed the course, recommended for PNCO's within a year, recommended for operations and FTRS, my report was good. was best shot in my platoon.

The other students varied, some were very very weak, others were strong. I was ...

If air assault is not jumping out of planes then why are the REME troops in air assault require para wings, same for the Royal Engineers, their unit which is called air assault requires people who have done p-coy

Isnt air assault the same as the americans air cavalry?

Whereas airbourne is the same ...

now completely back

Edited.

I apologise unreservedly for any offence caused, however it was a opinion I gained from speaking to a number of regular soldiers.

Allow me to stand corrected then, i know that some of 1RGJ are in Belfast, so maybe the rest of them are in Blackpool? and then 2RGJ are also in Ireland.

If u join the TA you will go on operational tours.

If you serve for 3 years you will go away on at least one tour

However people who I have met in the regs (this mainly applies outside of the infantry) who have not been on any operational tours in four or five years service. It seems that a lot ...

I am a green jacket, I have been with them for just over a year and I am soon to start my first tour with them

RGJ are indeed a very unique regiment, they are part of the light div and therefore they do a different form of drill to 'red coats.' The drill is known as light drill, it basically means ...

He got done whilst in TA, and never told anyone.

Do you know how he is doing, he wrote to me, well i say wrote. he drew a picture of a cock and said 'couldn't think what else to write, Love Mat'

I ent heard from him recently tho