Off to CTC

[Dolly Gray]

The first thing you must do before going to CTC is start to create yourself a low standard for future runs ashore.

The people you know now and go ashore with will change and you might as well accept that you also are going to change, in more ways than one. So start as you mean to go on

Go out on the piss this week -end and pull the biggest, fattest, smelliest and ugliest bird you can find, get uphomers and fill your boots for St George as many times as you can.

You will then arrive at CTC with a grin and a memory that will carry you through the low and the highs, and when you shudder with guilt at what you did, it will either keep you warm or release some extra energy to keep going

But treat her with the respect she deserves, the women that you hang out with now may be glad to see you return on leave, but you will find that after about twenety minutes or less they will have trouble in accepting the way you think, your habbits, the way you talk and the most important they will not accept your oppo or oppos who you have brought home with you and will see them as devils.

And when you have discovered your true path i.e once your oppo or oppos have messed up your whole life as it was, the Hulk wil still be there for you (and your oppos)


Obviously a photo on your locker of the Hulk will increase your street cred with the instructors who are bound to be coniseurs of such things.

Good luck

Dolly Gray

[rambo]

Cheers for the advice Dolly and Bootneck, Although i dont think i will be going out this weekend to look for said bird Dolly. I dont think could even live with myself if that was to ever happen.

but you will find that after about twenety minutes or less they will have trouble in accepting the way you think, your habbits, the way you talk and the most important they will not accept your oppo or oppos who you have brought home with you and will see them as devils.

Why would this be the case? I'm not going to be turned into some horrible monster am I ?

[The Recruit]

I'll be seeing you down there then rambo. I think you may av been on my prmc so I might remember your face. Im just finishing off my training myself and getting the last of my kit tonight.

Do you know anybody else goin down other than your mate?

Again as rambo said previously thanks to all for advice and support even though I didnt actually find out about the site until after my prmc!

[Dolly Gray]

Rambo

No you are not going to be turned into anything horrible but like it or not you are going to inherit some very strange friends, strange attitudes and think and talk different, stay the course and you will rememeber this.

Working towards the Green Beret not only takes you into a very adult world, but it also gives you entry into the world of the 'Bite' and 'Shit on your oppo' which most normal people see as childish and something which still gets me in the shit, but you have got that to come

Your so called oppos will see the fact that they are not pulling a bird, are bored or just need something to pass the time of day as good enough reason to spread some scurrious facts on your visits to the doc with an STD to your friends and family members and many other things that you will be unaware of (for starters).

If you watch the WKD adverts we see something similar happening in civvy street. Double that and add a bit more and you are in line with the bootneck sense of humour, which you may have picked up from this forum can be a bit extreme, to say the least. A lot of people usually non Marine have a hard time coming to terms with it, even the other services.

Above everything like bootneck said, keep your sense of humour and you can be a 'rubbber duck'


Dolly

[rambo]

A lot of people usually non Marine have a hard time coming to terms with it, even the other services.

Yeah this is true my mates dad hates bootnecks. He said to his son "Being a royal marine is the second worst job in the world you could of done and the first being a drug dealer".

I am looking forward though to meeting and making new strange fiends like you said, reading and hearing some of the stories that members of the corps get too aswell has also got me looking forward to that side of it. I think its going to be like hanging out with my rugby boys on tour but all the time a twice as bad.

Rambo

[rambo]

Recruit, my PRMC was on december 5th.

[Benw]

I don't want to hijack this thread so you can PM me if you like, but I am keen to know what you are taken down with you in addition to the kit list your AFCO gave you.

The RM at my AFCO was on holiday when I went for my briefing and the navy chap that I spoke to wasn't really sure what would be useful or allowed.

[Jagger]

GL Rambo, and do as Dolly says, claim the Corp a new island on yer runs ashore, Gib is getting quite lonely. Knockback one in the Nod's Head for me!

Ya don't need much when you go down first Ben, you'll get a weekend off after week 3 or something, just after you move into your new grott, you can take down all the rest of your crap then. Mind you, I don't think they gave out free johnnies till week 10 or something when I was there, might be an idea.

[Sully]

Said mate's mum was obviously once 'entertained' by a bootneck then

My last Saturday night before going to the hornets nest was spent on a run ashore in Deal followed by a taxi up to the married quarters at Connaught Barracks (RGJ's) with this 'sort' I'd pulled in the 'Clarry' who had thigh length boots on. The cow didn't live up to her billing - just wanting to chat despite seeing a grown man beg but her mate (in a flowery laura ashley dress - butter wouldn't melt...etc.) gave my mate a right roasting. Oh well. A lesson learned by me, and hopefully now you - aim low, avoid disappointment

[rambo]

Said mate's mum was obviously once 'entertained' by a bootneck then

I Think that may have been the case. I think my last night spent as a civvie will be spent in on my own wrecking my brains about what is next to come. Im not worried about whats going to happen i just hate all the waiting around. I've been without a job now since february and really all i've been doing then is getting pissed and training loads. So you can see why im so keen to get down there.

[Dolly Gray]

The last place you want to be is on your own - hit the vic bar and find an Island to lie on. Worry about the rest on the train journey down.

Dolly

[rambo]

Yeah i suppose your right there mate. I'll probably try hooking up with a guarantee, for a bit of stress rlief before i go.

[simonm]

Good luck rambo hopefully you'll be a Royal by Chrimbo

[JR]

All the best Rambo,Walk the Walk,Talk the Talk,and get the T-shirt?.And if you get the chance meet some of the 'Old and Bold' at the Reunion CTCRM 11th/12th September.Aye JR

[rambo]

Cheers JR will do all of those things. God this week has gone so qickly i hope time goes this fast at CTC.