i did the basic static line at 3500ft in November, was good fun, going up again on the weekend for jump number 2 i think.

for some reason im more nervous this time than last time..

Well i'm unsure about whether i want to make a career out of it or not.
I'm just a curious bastard really and i want to know what's going on all the time, plus i'd like to learn a language but realistically i never would in civilian life; i'd just go for a run or somethin instead.

as of late i am ...

like i said mate, i'll do any courses thrown at me, green maroon etc, i love the phys...
but i'm only really concerned about P Company because i started the cadre for it and i feel like i can't not finish it now.

The rest are just a matter of if their there, why not kind of thing for me bud.

I ...

Yeh i was actually told about SRR today. i read somewhere they do part of the SAS Selection but not the jungle phase, i think, i cant really remember, some of it tho. It does look like interesting work.
Altho it did say 'physical tests somewhat similar to P Company' wouldn't like to comment either ...

ha yeh yeh i'm gonna be a 'hat' and i know even if i get chance to do the all arms i'll be an 'airborne hat' etc lol.

As for OPMI: i thought that i cant be a rifleman as a civilian when i come out so i looked around the other jobs in all 3 services, and Intel just seems like something i can get a ...

No, i had to come out of it for both injuries and personal reasons, mainly personal reasons - ask me in a message if ur interested like, was genuine tho not just wrapping like.

To be honest it's giving me a lot of drama because i know i have to get P Coy done now, because i feel like how my fitness ...

Dave - dont you have commando logs and engineers and reme type peopel from the army 'hats' too? haha.

i know RM have things like mountain leader and their own intel and MP's tho.

...and i'll hold my hand up and say i am a 'i used to wanna be a marine'...
til i got involved in the 4paras..

I get what you mean.
Plus my only experience of the TA is 4Para, and the Artillery we shared a Unit with, and we all called their trained ranks, so i do appreciate why people do think they're w@#k to be fair.

I just think "you can learn when your old... Use your youth doing what you want, not ...

Briefly:
When i first thought of the Forces, after college, i wanted to join the Marines as a Reg...
Then after a few years out of college working as a fitness instructor i joined a recruit cadre for 4Para (Volunteers) last summer, and i really enjoyed it. (Including, suprisingly how we fairly were ...

woohoo pick on the dyslexic and the dyspraxic lad for one word wrong at half ten at night.

Next i'll be being told i shouldn't go into INT cause i dont do english so good

Ha, behave.

Lad, End of the day just think of what each regiment will do when you get out to afghan, that's how i see it. Joining up now i could be going out there ten times or more in my career so that's the only thing that's important to me, that and i dont wanna be based in germany :D haha.
when it comes to ...

Doc, btw, i'm goin in the regs now, i've saw the light haha :soldier_armed_comeon2:

Yeah mate, i live in St Helens now, (merseyside) and it is a million miles away from down south (i've lived in angel, islington for a time too)
I dont see any of this thread as necessarily racist neither...

To say ...

When i was living in Leeds, training with 4para, if i ever went for a run in my Paras tee shirt i'd get shouts of 'murderer' or 'infidel' or other such nonsense from the local islamic youth. (even if they did sh!t themselves when i'd stop n stare)
Hearing stuff like that with a Yorkshire accent does ...

That's a disgrace, it's not like it's because they dont want watches to get caught on door handles, it's to tackle MRSA etc. My uncle died from a superbug on the operating theatre, and to think it was because someone thought it 'indecent' in a room consisting of a small team of medical professionals ...

And there is still the opportunity to become a PTI as part of the Int Corps yeh?

im generally a bit mad on fitness so i'm quite interested in anything like that, hence why when i first thought of the forces i thought marines/paras.
But somethin said to put my grey stuff to good use.