Is the w4nker of the week award still going ?

Jolly good , miss nominate a nobber on there I do

If you do get called up then the army will make up the difference in pay , and hopefully allowances. Also your employer has to keep your job open for your return, at least thats how the SABRE guys pitched it to us

By and large thats true I'm afraid. But you do get some TA pers who really did miss out on a good career by never joining up

In my experiance , TA bods are simply used as gap fillers, blokes I know in the sigs are out there , one is working in computers , the other in electric safety.....They are both rad ops of one type or another but to be fair the one in elec safety is a sparky in civvy life

Great , get rid of the dead wood and woofters who cried off last time

One sgt I know walked out of the troop and didnt come back until his employer said he could not be spared

polish or some kind of wax

Flipping heck mongoose , is that site still running ? You misread my post , what i was saying is that as a TA soldier I dislike being referred to as a "Tom" by somone who has no experience of military life , ie a Civvy I had not come across the phrase before I used this site and I was inte...

I'm intrigued, what does someone so young know of SLR's ?

BTW , never saw the point of a carabina myself

It takes about 30 minutes for the body to realise that you are putting it under more exertion, thats why the 1st mile is always the hardest , your muscles are not warmed up and your blood is not oxygenated properly You need to look at a properly constructed fitness plan really , there are some out o...

Don't worry about it RichardL , I have the same problem and so do a million other blokes. You have a timid bladder , so what ? During your medical exam you will have to give a piss sample but ISTR nursey was kind enough to let yu do it in the heads, after all who wants a stream of squaddie piss all ...

Depends on having a big house but I'd say running is the best sort of exercise if you are going for the armed forces, yuo need a good anerobic base to work on

TA mate

If you transfer with a rank into the SAS you will become a "trooper"

Of course if you are a dog handler , then the dog will be the only one to keep its rank

Paraman, whats the PTI course like , I hear on the grapevine that our PTI may be throwing his hand in which will leave my troop short of a pti, don't you have to do an assistant pti course first ?

I was thinking of doing the course , being reasonably fit ( but no ball games in MY gym )