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Is the military prison still in Colchester? When you do your time, is it basically just being beasted as in early recruit training?

How long do you get for minor misdemenours, like fighting for example?

What's the longest one stays there?
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Post by Maroon »

Boxing Mad, why do you need to know, are you in trouble? :o

It's just the same a s civilain prison but run by Military screw's so you do drill and Military courses instead of wondering round the exercise yard and so on, I had a mate who did a couple of yrs there and he came out a far more qualified Soldier than me after 2 yrs and he was up for promotion not long after....

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Post by stever »

there was a series on tv recently

it may get repeated on uk horizons

ive had a few mates vist colchester

never done them any harm

in fact in some cases it kick started careers
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:) Oh no, not at all! In fact it leads onto another question I have. I'm joining the TA next month, and I assume that as we come under military law, if we commit an offence, we could be paying a visit.

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Post by Maroon »

It's not something I'd recomend mind.... :-?

And to answer BM question, you only get time at Colchester for major offences as your CO can slam you in Regimental Nick for up to 28 days and you don't get paid whilst in nick and your time served is put on hold 8)
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If you were in the TA and commited a civilian offence, and the civvy police arrested you, they wouldn't hand you over to MP's, you would be punished by the civvy authorities.
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What I'm getting at is if the offence is commited whilst on duty.
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Then you'll probably be beasted at best, or put into the regimental nick at worst. As far as I know, the "glasshouse" is for more serious offences, like going AWOL for example. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, I don't know if its the same for TA as it is regular?
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If you commited a civil offence=Civvy deal with it, Military offence = Military deal with it...

Even regulars have to face the music with the civil law, I was arrested whilst home on leave from NI for scrapping and dealt with by a civvy court, then back to battalion to face the CO and bringing the Army/Regiment in to disrepute 8)
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I spent a couple of years based at Roman Barracks in Colchester which is within earshot of MCTC. (we used to hear their drill instructors giving words of command!)

When I was in the shooting team we sometimes shared a range with the MCTC staff. Quite a scary bunch!


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I spent 24 days in colchester (4 days off sentence for being a good boy) back in 91. A normal day consists of lessons of either a military subject or physical training. You have 2 inspections of yourself and your bedspace one in the morning after breakfast the other after lunch. There are 8 men in a room with its own abloutions. The weekends are spent mainly staying in your room hoping to be picked to do a litter patrol.You have to go to church on sundays as well. I was paid £2.80 per week to get all my toiletries and cleaning kit for the week and any money left over went on tobacco(for bartering) I was really worried on my way there but to be honest it wasnt that bad my basic training was alot harder
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My old RSM spent time in Colchester, he always said that it did his drill the world of good! Also, since he ended up an RSM and had some pretty plum jobs so the whole "kickstart your career" thing must be true in at least some cases. Still probably not as good/enjoyable as going on proper courses tho :lol:
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