Bonsoir

Hello Redspan. Ex-RAF Regiment, ex-Met police. Current, Swedish MoD - both my full time job and my part-time TA activities. My paternal grandfather served in the British cavalry in France in 1917 - blinded by mustard gas returned to his home and horses in Ireland. Several maternal great uncles in th...

swompy wrote:
Yes, but that is what they need to do to turn us into a fighting machine.

Wahahaha ...a fighting machine now are you?... ..ROFLMAO...

Also there was no need for London Boy to post what he did. Yes there was, because your awful English is not only difficult to read it also indicates that you show a lack of interest in how you communicate and a lack of respect for those you're communicating with. So good luck to you in the armed fo...

i am re joining the army start trainen in december. joining royle engineers then going the airbourne route only thing is i carnt seam 2 fiand much out about them. i was joining para redg the last time till igot in jured just be for p company. just wonderd how much fiz you get at atr pirbriht ive he...

yes i fully understand why he done it but i would of prefered it if he wasnt so blunt about. Well lets just look at that one sentence shall we, it should look like this: Yes (A capital starts all sentences) I (first person singular is always a capital letter) fully understand why he did (This is si...

Gr8 m8 an its abat time innit!

Do you mean you've already tried? Or do you mean that some spook has put you off from trying?

Hi Stig, pure curiosity, is there an actual requirment on swimiing proficiency? I ask because when I joined way back when there wasn't. And I couldn't swim anyway, I did my whole RAF service not being able to swim, I only learned to swim when I joined the Met police, which DID HAVE a requirement, th...

Coloured in masking tape is what I used to use. I always had my crayons with me in an ammo pack alongside my Rupert the Bear colouring book....

He did 3 years with the Artists!

Aaagh..sorry Dave I didn't see that you said I'm a coppa. I thought it said cuppa, :wink: so I missed that bit. Right a slight revision then, when I was in the Met, the only TA blokes were those who had joined the TA prior to joining the police and most of those were 10 Para and RMP. One bloke was o...

My main worry is my age. How many people join at my age?? And my second worry is that it seems like a bit of a mad idea!! Dave Dave, you see right there with those two questions you're still doubting yourself. And you're goign to be kicking yourself and regretting it for the rest of your life if yo...

Blimey, you old bastards 25,26,28. :wink: I was 18 when I joined & my 19th was still a fair way off. I wanted to be an elite solider or a copper as early as 14. I was an RGJ cadet at 15, started Judo at 15. Applied to the police cadets at 16. Then having passed everything decided against it. Lef...

gunner75 wrote:to join an elite fighting troop..
to specialise in elite modern warfare....
to become a member of one of the big three......
INCOMMMMMIN!!!

God, I haven't laughed so much on a Monday morning since ........the last time I did!