Have any of you fellas in the regs done an Open Uni course, or currently are studying one? I'm just curious how you found fitting in the course around the training plan and especially during the current op tempo.

Cheers.

I think they try and get you your licence as soon as possible in the majority of the Army.

I got mine straight away but I started off in a transport mob.

I wonder if, like the original story, this will make the front page...

Somehow I doubt it.

Not Para or Commando trained (unless they came from 29 or 7 RHA, etc.) but do earn their own pool triangle, or Lateo badge.. http://www.army.mod.uk/img/5regtra/473/Lateo%20Badge.JPG The selection course was developed by sneaky beakies and is 'kin hard. Regarded in the Army as second only to you know...

chak wrote:whats the differences between the sa80 and the sa80-A2?

The A2 works.

Now that its getting very hot, should I start running very early, sunrise sort of time, or is there another way to keep cool? Should i be used to running in the boiling hot, or is that just asking for trouble? Cheers Mark Drink plenty of fluids and run in the midday heat. Works wonders for the stam...

Send a tub of sand. In case he can't find any.

And I thought Rambo was fictional!

Very brave. What you done will never be forgotten.

RIP lads.

There's also Rat Race in Edinburgh, Bristol and Manchester.

That Tough Guy race looks a good'un.

Out of curiosity... do SB volunteers from the Army transfer service to the RM, or do they remain on the Armys books?

Iraq would now come under the War on Terror I suppose.

Is it possible to fix a bayonet to a rifle with the UGL? The current Rifle Section makeup is looking very bayonetless, as there's only two standard rifles!

I suppose you could attached a couple of knifes to the LSWs bipod legs with some black n' nasty, and swing it around at your foe...

Nice site, Tab.

The NASA one is pretty good too: http://visibleearth.nasa.gov

Don't fire from the left shoulder.