Aussie commandos are SF down there, so you'd have to do their selection ect.

That pic just screams walt...who besides airsofters take photos in a bedroom like that.

It's a bit of a more round-a-bout way from the RM's, first you join, then you spend a minimum of a year in service, apply get sent to the FPGRM, who run the selection course, pass that, get posted......

sorry about the off topic, it's just how different each service get's people there.


PS I have ...

sky ninja steve wrote:i dont think 1 get paid anymore they might get a bit extra on the ground for find youre own food or something but thats about it also i dont know if they get anything if you are squares trained or not which alot are doin now

Do they do free fall parachuting now?

SAS facing recruitment crisis
Applications to join the SAS have fallen by more than a third, according to reports.


By Ian Johnston
Published: 10:32AM BST 14 Jun 2009

About 150 soldiers a year usually seek to join the elite regiment, but this year that number fell to 93 with only eight making it ...

druadan wrote:Standing for...? Special Operations Regiment??

supposedly, yeah.

sorry for the necro psot, but some guys on another brit military forum (you know the one ) were talking about a possible name change from SFSG to SOR?

gossip or more then that.?

Speculation, but obviously 2 and 3 Para deployed to form the main battlegroups of summer 08. 1 Para deploy in smaller divisions as and when they're required to support various SF elements; therefore there's more scope for shifting manpower around to ensure deployable companies are up to strength ...

dont have to be mega or super fit to go from depot i know a fair few unfit mongs went straight to 1 especially before the 08 tour because of the harrogate joes not being old enough to go on tour with two and three they sent everyone old enough for the tour to two and three and the rest to 1 para ...

Well if you count the "special" folks he was probably right

Well in that case you can count every single Infantry Regiment. Even the Household Cav as a good number in the special folks
As I said, "If" and "Probably" :wink:

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That actually reads a wee bit oddly now that I've typed it ...

kev101 wrote:That's strange, my recruiter told me that the paras always have troops in afghan and as one set come back, one goes out.

Well if you count the "special" folks he was probably right

Just wondering, you always see in books/media ect that SF selection rates are around the 10% rate or even less.
Is that still the case, what with the wars going on over the last almost decade, you'd think selection would be full of experienced hardened veterens (recent RM/ect action where they ...

TallBlackDude wrote:I used to run for my county a while ago, how many press ups should i aim for because at 26 reps im at the point where im shaking.

You should push on to failure, you aim for a number and they make you do more, your f@#k...just one of those things youpuch past the basics

Mutter1,

Interesting comment. But are you certain that:

a. Jesus ever existed?

b. He was a 'darky'?

c. He'd be in for a 'shoing'? Whatever that is. Did you mean 'shooing', as in he would be frightened away by people saying 'shoo'?.

A, there is resonable evidence that there was a person called ...

Inside the political marquee, Reverend Robert West – the party's vicar, one of several clergymen on the BNP membership list – is preaching about the importance of nationalism and how "homosexuals do greatly err"

So I take it that since Jesus was a darky, he'd be in for a shoing?