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Posted: Thu 25 Sep, 2003 12:30 pm
by rabby
Why would you have to wait 4 months after PRMC before starting training?
Posted: Thu 25 Sep, 2003 12:56 pm
by ash2003
Its not 4 months after my PRMC though. Work it out. PRMC 18th November. Thats about 2 months away. Then on completion of the PRMC its probably gonna be 2 months till recruit training.
Ash
Posted: Thu 25 Sep, 2003 7:31 pm
by bird
Can we stick to who wants to do this para weekend and not when your PRMC is. Not tryin to be a nob but there is a Marines forum and I hate it when the subject is changed...
Bird
Posted: Fri 26 Sep, 2003 5:37 pm
by Ed Morgan
Im on the one on the weekend of the 17th of October...
should be a good crack i reckon, i went on my local regiments weekend insight as well, and that was really good fun too.
Posted: Tue 30 Sep, 2003 4:59 pm
by ash2003
Lew you on the 07/09 November weekend? They contacted you yet?
Ash
Posted: Tue 30 Sep, 2003 11:16 pm
by lew
Nope they havnt, cant do that one anymore, I got a climbing lesson I want to go on instread... I'm going to go on the one the month after...
lew
Posted: Sun 19 Oct, 2003 11:58 am
by _mat
I did that weekend when I was 15. The 1 para recruiting team down there were all invovled with the attack on the west side boys in sierra leone. I don't know if it was coz of that but we spent most of the time in stress positions, sprinting everywhere, and getting screamed at. I dunno about coming back - there was a college course there and after a lot of complaints from his students the teacher decided they were gonna leave early
. I thought it was great though - we got to jump off a parachute tower.
Mat.
Posted: Sun 19 Oct, 2003 12:36 pm
by lew
Well whilst I was away at my TA course I had my travel warrant come through, so looks like ill be going down there to have a look see, although lately I’ve been wondering if the Para’s are actually right for me, and have been looking at the marines in allot more detail...
Ill have to see what this weekend comes up with...
lew
Posted: Sun 19 Oct, 2003 1:03 pm
by _mat
my travel warrant came the morning i was meant to leave. I didn't know anything about the course until then. I was actually skiving school on the day. Oh yeah, and then they forgot to ask for the parental consent slips too. And they had loads of us packed into a 9 seater minibus... and the driver wasn't qualified to drive it... Come to think of it, it wasn't the best organised course but it was still good
Posted: Wed 17 Mar, 2004 8:06 pm
by Mal
Was anyone else on the Nov 7/8 2003 Insight Weekend? I was, wud be cool to get in touch with some of the lads I met down there,
Mal
Posted: Thu 18 Mar, 2004 8:52 pm
by wannabe_bootneck
has anyone here actually been on an insight course if so, don't suppose you fancy doing a little course diary type thing do you for all us who who are interested?
Posted: Thu 18 Mar, 2004 8:58 pm
by Mal
Not sure when these two lads went on the course, but there description of it was very similar to the one I did. I actually wrote a log of everything I did there but its two A4 pages long
so dont think im gonna type all that up lol. There description misses out a few things, and details however will give some ppl a small insight onto what kind of things to expect.
http://www.kimbolton.cambs.sch.uk/parac ... course.htm
Mal
(btw, i loved the course and wud have stayed down there for much longer if I had the chance, but different courses are run by different instructors so some weeks are better than others)
Re: Free Para Weekend!
Posted: Fri 21 May, 2004 11:42 am
by para@17
I JUST APPLIED FOR LATE SEPTEMBER
Posted: Fri 21 May, 2004 3:44 pm
by bootneck
Free Para Weekend?
better still
Free Mandela.............with every packet of Kelloggs Corn Flakes
Posted: Fri 21 May, 2004 6:32 pm
by Tab
Airborne Forces Day at Southsea Common Sunday 11th July 2004.