I’ve come across a little problem. I’ve wanted to join the paras for a long time now but:
Two months ago I caught some serious food poisoning which turned into Viral Gasteritouse (or something pronounced like that anyway.) Basically it meant I had trouble keeping my food down for more then 15 minutes before chucking most of it back up. I had it for around two weeks and lost almost two and a half stone in weight, and my fitness went down the drain. After the illness past I started my training again but being the muppet I am I started off two hard, causing a couple of annoying muscle strains and something that sometimes makes my left shin hurt like hell after a run.
Anyway present day and I’ve got most of my weight back, but I can only do 40 press-ups and 10 pull-ups, and I’m struggling to keep my mile and a half time under 10:30.
Under normal circumstances I would just keep training until I got my fitness level up to para standards but I’m running out of time. I applied for the army back in November 2002, and due to previous medical history problems and pure bad luck, I still havnt even passed RSC. My dads tired of me having a crappy part time job for the last two years and so am I.
Basically, I’m going to have to go for a normal infantry regiment, and hopefully join the paras at a later date. One of the main reasons why I wanted to join the paras is because they are more likely to get sent to where the fighting is before a regular infantry regiment.
So is there an infantry regiment that is more likely to get sent some where first?
Also, my Careers office guy is trying to persuade me to go to my local regiment, the Royal Anglians, but I’m hearing better things about the Light Infantry and the RGJ, so id prefer to join one of them. Anyone got any tips on how I can tell the careers guy that I don’t want to join the Royal Anglians, considering that he’s one.
Cheers for any replies.
. You only get to go three times dont you?
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