Im am in the RMR and just got my parade boots a couple of days ago. A few of the guys at my unit reckon I should be painting them as they need to be ready for armed forces day and with only a week they think I won't have enough time to get them polished properly. How many hours am I looking at to ge...

Im 22 at the moment, birthday in June. Aib is supposed to be March 4th but I think I will have to change it because of work.

Did the POC on the 4th through to the 6th last week.

Someone wanted my scores so here they are:

Bleep test: 12.7
Press ups:50
Sit ups:60
Pull ups:6

Assault course run: 3 mins 44 secs
200m carry: 74 secs
100m carry: 39 secs

Might write up a diary later

I had some smalll concerns about the smartie tubes before I did it on my phase 1 course with the reserves but they are easier than you may think. I'd heard rumours that you had to go through with your arms outstretched to the front and you had to wiggle through but that is complete bull. There are 2...

Good luck Kevin

Cheers wannabe.

One of the lads from my troop in the reserves is on the same POC as you I think, he's done it before as well.

I thought you meant the ginger lad from my troop sorry. Yeah the guy you're talking about is supposed to be Feb 4th as well but he said he was going to try to change it to a later date.

Yeah I'll post my scores no problem.

Cheers Greenwell mate. The other guy from my troop has not got a POC date yet, I think he is still going thriough the earlier stages of the application at the moment.

Just wondering if anyone could tell me the kind of topics that have come up for the essay and discussion exercises in a recent POC?

Anybody on this course?

I would go with the promotion if I were you as puting the RMR first would be a bit like letting a hobby get in the way of your work although I know it's not quite the same. I wanted to ask if you are sure that you couldn't still attend RMR Cambridge as parade is at 1930 and it can't be more than an ...

It seemed to be more of an induction weekend than a selection weekend because there were a couple of guys on mine that were definitely borderline anyway but they were allowed to start training. Get to the Thursday training sessions as often as you can once you start training because these bring your...

RMR Tyne Selection Weekend (A rough guide form when I did it in June this year) Friday Welcome form the CO and training staff Safety briefing with video Lesson on how to wash and shave RMFA: There is a warm up and it is actually just a warm up rather than a beastin so don't worry about it. Bleep te...

I was like you guys, didn't do holding troop, just turned up for selection. PAGreenwell: Just give the unit a call on 0191 2240550 then press 0 to get right through to the reception. I didn't get a kitlist sent out by mistake so I only got it a day before the selection weekend. The biggest word of a...

Im currently at RMR Tyne so I'll probably be seeing you guys about the unit. I know holding troop started a couple of weeks ago. Could give you a quick run down of the weekend if you want. Going to work just now so don't have time at the moment I'm afraid.

I would not worry about what to wear to the test mate, it is just a test, I just wore fairly smart civvie clothing. Save your suit or shirt and tie for the interview where appearance counts for something.