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General discussions on joining & training in the Royal Marines.
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Bitty
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Doc wrote:Ive heard it all now

"how will I get up" and "how can I have a poo/pee" !!!!!!!

Eat 24 weetabix at 23:59, by 05:30 you would have shit the bed and both problems solved.

As for Pee, then stick a camelbak up your willy and when you see the PTI hanging out for a wet be a good egg and offer him some warm home made lemonade :wink:

Get a grip for farks sake!
I hate to correct you but I would think saying a warm weak lemon drink would be more aporperate
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yea I've heard from a lot of military sources that a soldier needs to learn how to get sleep whenever he can, because you never know when you'll next get some.

as for the getting up early, it's piss easy. I thought it would be hard, so in preparation for my PRMC (which is in a week and a half), I've been going to bed before 11pm, and waking up at exactyl 8. If you set your alarm, and make a huge effort to get up straight away (and not mope around or go back to sleep), it gets pretty easy. I've become so used to it that I either 1) Wake up at 7:59, and turn my alarm off, or 2) The second my alarm goes off, I jump out of bed and open the curtains and start getting dressed without realising what I'm doing.
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nachtachrach wrote: as for the getting up early, it's piss easy. I thought it would be hard, so in preparation for my PRMC (which is in a week and a half), I've been going to bed before 11pm, and waking up at exactyl 8.
HA!!! 8, that's not early, I've been at work for 2 1/2 hours by then, on PRMC you will be getting up at 0530.

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Post by james_m »

8 o'clock is not early at all!!

I get up at 4.30am and go to work to start at 6.00am.
I then do activities all day i.e. climbing, kayaking, mountain biking, guided walks etc etc and usually a night walk and then get home at about 10.00pm each night. I then have my tea and go to bed at about 11.30pm.

And before Doc reads this, I am going to beat him to it:

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i used to f@#k DREAM about going to bed at 11 and getting up at 8 for fark sake.

was living off 5-6 hours sleep at the very best for over 6 years. hence the huge moon crater black pits of doom under my eyes but hey. im still beautiful :roll: :lol: :lol:
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know 8 isn't early, but my point is that you can get up at any time, you just have to get used to it.

and I used to get up at 6am everyday for 6 months; I had a paper round.
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nachtachrach wrote: and I used to get up at 6am everyday for 6 months; I had a paper round.

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nachtachrach wrote:know 8 isn't early, but my point is that you can get up at any time, you just have to get used to it.

and I used to get up at 6am everyday for 6 months; I had a paper round.
LOL know what you mean though mate. I was terrible for going to bed/getting up late for years. Since you have to be up at 5:30 on PRMC im forcing myself to get up at 6, but it's taken some getting used to, the biological clock and what not.
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When I have been away with my unit, it normally takes me 2 weeks to get used to a 6 am wake up time. I find that on me own, I can't be arsed but if your with others and there for a reason you shoot up and start you business.
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Felias wrote:I find that on me own, I can't be arsed but if your with others and there for a reason you shoot up and start you business.
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Felias wrote:When I have been away with my unit, it normally takes me 2 weeks to get used to a 6 am wake up time. I find that on me own, I can't be arsed but if your with others and there for a reason you shoot up and start you business.
just what unit is this then?? The never never land unit visited when your eyelids are closed and your index finger has found its way up your arse again?
you shoot up and start you business.
makes sense now...........your a junkie arent you :roll:
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know 8 isn't early, but my point is that you can get up at any time, you just have to get used to it.

and I used to get up at 6am everyday for 6 months; I had a paper round.
the last 4 days i been going to bed and 6 in the moring and waking up at 3 in the afternoon :o just so i could spend as much time as i could on this game.
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What games that Stinky?

Is it the 'see how long I can stay up for game.' :P

Surely if you got up at a reasonable hour and played whatever game it is and than went to bed at a reasonable hour you would have played it for the same amount of time. The benefits of this would be you will get the full glory of the summers day and perhaps you might than want to get outside and train to be a proper soldier in the Royal Marines instead of a pretend one in the American Army.

Summer is only about for a few months a year, you might as well make the most of it, sleep with the curtains and the windows open and you'll soon hear those birds twittering the sun will burst into your room and you'll be up like a shot.
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Thanx for the tip babe :wink: . So when do you want to meet up again? opps :oops: did i type that out loud?
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