Howd you get this chance? sounds incredible

Well this is one option im considering for after college, it sounds great on paper, Do Some training and try being an army officer for a year but does anyone have any opinions on it?

Im suspicious that itll end up with sitting behind a desk making coffee or being like work experience (which i guess ...

Personally im in pretty much the exact position as you,

if it helps im holding off for a surer pass and developement of fitness etc and to do a couple of other things i want to do in life before commiting to military...

Yeah, i definitely want to experience it as PFC first, especially as i will have plenty of time to play 'ossifer when in regs if i want(Apparently positive mental attitude so excuse me

Well my logic is that i want to check i want the military life before Going Royal Marines officer as well as doing something interesting. It also seems a good way to combine a part time job and do some interesting stuff.

Im a pretty good juggler so not too worried about that. What is an average ...

the best thing to think about is the fact that if they were only 5 feet above the ground as opposed to 30 odd feet then you wouldnt really care would you? Its just walking across a plank or sliding across a rope or whatever but in a different place

Well that would make sense, marines and all :wink:

I always got taught that if you did have a decent base of fitness it shouldnt take you horrific amounts of time to get back to fitness, certainly when i dislocated my knee and lost THREE MONTHS i didnt feel like id lost Six months of fitness, i ...

How are the PWRR regiment to serve in? im considering them as one option for serving in at the moment any "tigers" on here?

What points do people fail on in the actual 32 week course? I hear about assesements on marksmanship first aid, stalking etc are these the parts where people actually get compulsorily kicked out?

Remember that it can be a bit tricky to compare the two as the Royal Marines YO course is aimed at making a civilian into a Royal Marines platoon commander with all the tactics and skills that come with it

Sandhurst is aimed at making a civilian into a british army officer, then an infantry officer ...

http://www.defence.gov.au/army/hq8bde/jobs/fitness.htm

If you click the link theres a beep system for situps and pressups for what sounds like the australian reserves or similar id guess. Could be useful for people doing POC with the beeping Upper body tests. I found it useful anyway, goes all ...

I could have sworn that in the case of the young marine who died the disease had taken over his cardio system and it wasnt the fact that he was fit that caused his illness it was the fact that fitness had nothing to do with the illness so anyone would have succumbed? in general though yes fitness ...

Roger that, I definately notice my triceps swelling more and feeling more tired during / right after circuits doing marine style pressups. Going to have to work in some normal pressups as well to keep things even I think (since I'm applying Army).


I thought that as well and ive actually found ...

Im surprised how high the dropout rate is actually. I would have thought that once past the selection drop out is reasonably low, i mean you go to all the trouble of PRMC/POC and any other stuff all that work and years of training and then you just....give up? i mean some people will definitey think ...

Friendly... I definately got more motivation to train harder!! The amount of testing bergen runs etc you get makes you train real hard so that your not the mong at the back!! Join infantry or RMR or something! You'll have a great time as long as you keep your sense of humour!

You see that ...