The Royal Marines, Paratroopers and RAF Regiment Questions.

[sportbilly42]

could always be a chef if you like your food or some thing similiar!? or aim to be the accom senior then you'll have the best grot by far!

....or be a QM blanket-stacker type and get your pick of all the new Gucci kit when it comes in...and syphon some off for your mate's eBay account.....

.....or be a Postie and be able to rifle through the mail like the Viz character, with some football practice thrown in when you kick the parcels around the post-room....


I mean EVERY job in the forces has it's 'fringe benefits'...


(Well...apart from Provo Cpl....haven't worked out a benefit for that one.... )

[Carlos125]

Dave - dont you have commando logs and engineers and reme type peopel from the army 'hats' too? haha.

i know RM have things like mountain leader and their own intel and MP's tho.

...and i'll hold my hand up and say i am a 'i used to wanna be a marine'...
til i got involved in the 4paras..

[Airborne Legend]

Carlos, have you finished all your training with 4 Para?

[Carlos125]

No, i had to come out of it for both injuries and personal reasons, mainly personal reasons - ask me in a message if ur interested like, was genuine tho not just wrapping like.

To be honest it's giving me a lot of drama because i know i have to get P Coy done now, because i feel like how my fitness was going i could've got through it.
Even tho i've chose to go into the regs now as OPMI it is giving me as i say a lot of stress about not going into Depot as a reg.

sorry if it read as if i was a Para i'm the first to put my hand up and say im not like, i just don't preview these posts.

[Airborne Legend]

No worries mate, just be careful about the 'H' word OPMI?

[Carlos125]

ha yeh yeh i'm gonna be a 'hat' and i know even if i get chance to do the all arms i'll be an 'airborne hat' etc lol.

As for OPMI: i thought that i cant be a rifleman as a civilian when i come out so i looked around the other jobs in all 3 services, and Intel just seems like something i can get a lot out of... (hey, i'm still gonna end up in afghan, so might as well get as much as i can for doing so) languages/IT etc etc all the kinds of skills that look like they can get me a good job when i come out. Altho, i'm a bit disheartened lately, it seems the more i ask about intel, i just get the same responses, that basically i'll get stuck behind a desk.
Don't get me wrong im not a bravado screamin 'let me at 'em' but if i wanted to just train as a IT manager i'd do one of them courses on the telly you know?

I am desperate to get to do P company, you know if any of the intel lot get chance to do the all arms course?
i've got the bug for it.

[Airborne Legend]

No idea to be honest mate, I don't see why not though. If you doing the int route then you can always look at going SRR later on, I think they have to pass the hills phase of UKSF selection so there's something Phys based for you to aspire to. Also when you've had enough MI5 might be interested.

[Carlos125]

Yeh i was actually told about SRR today. i read somewhere they do part of the SAS Selection but not the jungle phase, i think, i cant really remember, some of it tho. It does look like interesting work.
Altho it did say 'physical tests somewhat similar to P Company' wouldn't like to comment either way on that. A friend of mine is ex 1para tho, now he's just started a cadre with 23 SAS (R) so i shall ask him i think

Plus, 4para will always be an option when i come out too. (Or poss 23 if im upto it.)

AFCO mentioned MI5 to me too as a possibility afterwards.

It was a matter of i wanted to serve with the Parachute Regiment, now it's more of a i want to pass P Company, just to show i can... think that's more why i didn't chose Para Reg, however, i have a lot of respect for the paras, and the marines too.

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Im quite aware of how throwing SAS, SRR, Para, Marines, and every other unit into a post makes you look as if you've not got a clue...
but as far as my aspirations go...
all arms p company, and obv i'd love the all arms commando course as well but one of them.

and i promised myself i'd attempt 22/23 selection - no harm in trying is there, unless you actually make it thru haha =]

but yeh as i say i just need to do P company, i'd be more than happy with that.

[London Boy]

or from what i've heard about the RAF Regiment - clean land rovers and get suntans

What you've heard? From whom?
Have you ever worked with the RAF Regt or been on exericse with them?
And what regular unit do you serve in?

You seem to have a lot to say about them based on very little!
I suggest you read some offical MoD pages before mouthing off here about the RAF Regt.

Ex 2 Field Sqn Airborne RAF Regt

[sportbilly42]

Carlos, ....You seem to be chucking all sorts of ingredients into your pot and having a stir... Para, RM, SAS, MI5, Peace Corps, British Legion... Sea Scouts..(although I see you've given the RAF Regt a swerve... ) ...all this with a trade ..etc

Don't know that there's much call for Commando trained Int Corps types .......I mean they've ALREADY got their green hat anyway so why bovver?

Considered RE at all? The "Get yerself a trade for civvie street" could be ticked off your list of 'must haves' (anything from bricklayer/plumber to surveyor/GIS bunny) and have your standard RE training of building bridges, blowing bridges and other shit up, putting mines in the ground, taking mines out the ground, amphibious stuff.........

.....with the option of going 59 Cdo or 9 Para (depending on what colour beret suits your eye colour..... )

[Carlos125]

like i said mate, i'll do any courses thrown at me, green maroon etc, i love the phys...
but i'm only really concerned about P Company because i started the cadre for it and i feel like i can't not finish it now.

The rest are just a matter of if their there, why not kind of thing for me bud.

I have looked at the RE yeh, i have to give 3 choices to the AFCO so there are engineering job in them.

i was tryna say in my earlier post i dont wanna be naming all the special forces and elite soldiers and saying im going to do them all haha, i just want to do p company.

[davo141]

Dave - dont you have commando logs and engineers and reme type peopel from the army 'hats' too?

we do have commando logs yes, nearly Vm's expect the civvies are bootnecks with the odd Reme officer in there for admin etc only seen 2 reme lads though. Drives are mostly bootnecks with a few army ranks and 59cdo and i think 24regt. RE's are going to be getting attached to the corps according to the 'welcome to RMB Chivenor' book to boost the engineer numbers for Herrick. Most Engineers are CDO trained with only a few sprinklings of none trained ranks and the duty naval personell.

Dave

[Artist]

Down South (The Falklands, for all you Morons with the retention value of a lump of dog shit!) in 1982, Commando Logistics Regiment Royal Marines managed to supply two Brigades with all the gear they needed. At the time both Brigades were bigger than normal. 3 CDOBDE had 40CDO, 42CDO, 45CDO, 59CDOENGRSQNRE, 29CDOREGTRA plus 2 PARA & 3 PARA.

5th Bde (which was a total ADD HOCK Bde) had the Welsh Guards, The Scots Guards, 2 Gurkas plus RE and RA Attachments. They did not have a Logistic backup. Cdologs supplied the the lot. The CO of Cdologs was a Lt Col Ivor Hellberg RCT (whos uncle was one of the guys who took out the German Heavy Water Plant in Norway during WW2).

After the event the Army looked long and hard at their system and decided that maybe, just maybe the Corps of Royal Marines had it right. Endex. So please just shut up all you arsewipes who talk the talk but don't and never will "walk the walk!"

Am fed up to the back teeth with dipshits who ain't got a fecking clue apart from WHAT THEY HAVE READ by OTHER EXPERTS.

Just please go away and play with yourselves you sad little Wanerbie pillocks.

Artist