TWO WEEKS TODAY!!

[sky ninja steve]

I go for basic in two weeks and was thinking of putting my experience on here wheni come back every six weeks just wondering if it'd be a welcome thread or would i be wasting my time???
if i do go ahead with it u'll all have to bear with my punctuation and spelling and such like as i suck big time at that sort of thing.

[SO19]

Go for it, not a waste of time at all.

[Paratrooper01]

Yeah, go for it. Its always good to hear how blokes are getting on in training.

I wrote a training log when i was in depot. Every night i would write down what we did that day in terms of PT and thrashings, and all the other training we did. Really good to look back on and im glad that i spent the time doing it...never know, might be material for a book one day.

There are computers down in Helles Barracks, the WRVS chick down there runs all that stuff, i think her name is Val but dont quote me on that. But that is for after week 6 when you will be allowed a bit more freedom.

[sky ninja steve]

yeah didnt think i would get much time or the privilages to be able to get to a computer in the first 6 weeks

[Tab]

Once upon a time you would never have the time for such things for the first few weeks, but if you have the time then we would love to hear from you.

[Sandy The Guvnor]

There are computers down in Helles Barracks.

He wont be in Helles, he will be in Vimy

[Paratrooper01]

He wont be in Helles, he will be in Vimy

Lucky old Joe!! Hat-land standby

[Andr3w]

ohh your from huddersfield

[sky ninja steve]

on my papers it says report to helles barracks or doesnt that mean sh1t??

[Sandy The Guvnor]

on my papers it says report to helles barracks or doesnt that mean sh1t??

Para Coy HQ is still in Helles but the joes are in Vimy

[sky ninja steve]

aaahhhh

[Foxtricks]

Good luck

Foxy..

[sky ninja steve]

A young man joined the army and signed up with the paratroopers.

He went through the standard training, completed the practice jumps
from higher and higher structures, and finally went to take his first
jump from an airplane.

The next day, he called home to tell his father the news.

"So, did you jump?" asked the father.

"Well, let me tell you what happened," the son said. "We got up in the plane, and the

sergeant opened up the door and asked for volunteers. About a dozen men got up and just walked out of the plane.

"Is that when you jumped?" asked his father.

"Uh, no. The sergeant started to grab the other men one at a time and
throw them out the door."

"Did you jump then?" asked his father.

"I'm getting to that. Everyone else had jumped, and I was the last man
left on the plane. I told the sergeant that I was too scared to jump.

He told me to get off the plane or he'd kick my butt.

"So, did you jump?"

"No. He tried to push me out of the plane, but I grabbed onto the door
and refused to go. Finally he called over the Jump Master. The Jump Master
is this great big guy, about six-foot five, and 250 pounds. He said to me, 'Are
you gonna jump or not?'"

"I said, 'No sir, I'm too scared." So the Jump Master pulled down his
zipper and took out his you-know-what. I swear, dad, it was about ten inches
long and big around as a baseball bat! He said, 'Either you jump out that
door, or I'm sticking this little baby up your ass.'"

"So, did you jump?" asked his father.

"Well, a little, at first."


anyway better go get me train speak in six weeks (hope fully)

[sky ninja steve]

well its been four weeks and i can tell you all i now know what they mean by enjoyable hard work its brill had a couple of problemas with shins over the last week but thats sorted now .havent really got time to go into things in mutch detail yet but what i can say is that they should get rid of that bloody discharge as of right thing where you have to serve at least 28 days before you can even think about leaving because the ppl there that already wanting to leav which is id say about 16 out of the origanal 60 just dont put any effort in what so everand they pull us the people that want to do well and get our noses dirty and get stuck in down if you know what i mean but apart from that alls good on the para training so far apart from the f@#k craps hats everywhere i just cant get me head around why someone woukld want to do all that god damn drill and then go on to guard a piece of tarmac outside some rich lady's house ????????????


ciao for now
steve.

[Boxingmad]

Glad to hear you're doing well fella. Keep at it.