Just wanted to drop a quick line in to say thanks to all the MF and ManFAT team for the excellent resource this website provides to those looking into forces life and asking the questions you were tooa fraid to ask at the AFCO etc. It's 2 weeks tomorrow for me and then I'm off to Honnington to crack...

Yes and yes, 4 weeks and counting!

Roger, if they run PGAC anything like ours, you will be hooped by day 2 already. As on paper the PGAC phys looks easy, but that's before they throw in fire drills, 10 seconds round that building don't be the last man back, press up position down, up, down, up, down, up, halfway down and hold etc. Yo...

Sorry Ruth you're not ignorant I bow to your undulating knowledge of all things, I'll bite my lip in future.

Sorry Ruth i'll try to bite my lip and be nicey nice in future.

They weren't actors, everyone in the ads were real soldiers hence all the Berghaus Munro daysacks and other gucci bits of kit.

More hearsay from ever helpful Ruth, mate, get on the phone to the careers office, i think you wanna speak to a london office if you're overseas, be completely honest with them give them all the detaisl and they will gen you up. There are a rigid set of rules regarding those with criminal offences o...

OK then obviously I'm wrong, were you there no, don't be so bloody ignorant.

No no believe me it was some sort of laser I was there you know, and it was far from comfortable I can tell you.

I have had my eyes beasted for years now as I have a scar on the back of my eyeball, I've had student idiot doctors shining lasers in me eye, super dooper eye cameras and optomotrists getting wet so I know a bit about the old eyeball.

You will always get my regiment corps whatever is better than yours, it will never goa nd long may it live I say. It's unit pride and is a good thing to have, you have to get as much factual info as possible and decide what you really want to do.

How can you have better than 6/6 vision you chopper? Can they see through walls or something? 6/6 unaided is perfect vision. -0.25 is the smallest correction they do I think anyway mate so don't let it worry you. In my medical I didn't even have to read to the bottom line of the alphabet soup board....

If you've ever had asthma in your life ever as well, forget it.

289 troop in Romford, part of 100 regt. RA

It's unlikely that an inf. unit will put you forward for Cdo. training as what benefit would it do to them? Members of the TA who do P-Coy and their jumps or AACC tend to do it because they're in a unit that supports either airborne or cdo units. I'm sure some blokes who have nothing to do with the ...