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got back on easter leave last night and i'm still nakered lol. training is great and the lads in my troop are all sound, few of them on on this forum, fodd, swilson, and wilky. I think i'll get slashed tonight

Hi Mick.

Any chance of you posting a wee diary on what it has been like??

Good to see everythings going well.

Tom

Hello Mick, good to hear things are going well.

I have a couple of questions to ask if you don't mind..

What stage are you at in Training?

What have you found to be the hardest aspect of training so far?

Cheers Mate

Braywick

wooo back for easter.First two weeks have been VERY tough with atleast one beasting everyday thnx to our brutal training team .Gonna get some sleep now,be back on later,lmdavies should have added some horror stories by then! hehe

I start week 4 when I get back. the pt is hard you feel like you did after gym test 2 but your working so hard you don't feel it if you no what I mean? they said to us yesterday if we work hard we'll have a bit of fun at the end there kind of fun was runnig a camp circuit with these heavy mats lol.

Jon and I are in 874 Troop and we have 858's old training team. We are a small troop that started off with 30 and picked up 2 NAMET Biffs. Our training team are very hard but fare. They have very high standards and are extremely professional and I am certain that we will all be better soldiers when we walk out that main gate. We also have a good laugh. I have already gone through 20 weeks of recruit training so I know what to expect but compared to my old training team I had it extremely easy the first time around.

So far in the first two weeks we have been crawling around foundation block on our knees and elbows until the flesh has been completely ripped off them. We have been put in all sorts of painful stress positions, we have been doing press-ups on our knuckles. Press-ups are being dished out in blocks of 70's and even hundreds. We have been beasted/thrashed every day since we have been there and have also been tanked. A few of the recruits got caught wearing underpants under their PT shorts so we were doing press-ups naked outside of the foundation block. We have this idiot in our troop who always does his own thing and he was made to run up and down foundation block wearing his bergan and shouting 'I must label my kit.. I must label my kit'. As this recruit is like 'Superman' and pain does not affect him, he was also made to carry another bergan. We even had one recruit in tears!

We have also been subjected to endless quick changes but at the end of the day there is a good reason for all this madness. I have also learned some great new skills and better ways of doing things so it is certainly not boring for me. We also have a great bunch of lads and despite the harshness, we have a fine training team.

By the way, my purpose of this post was not to winge but to simply give you a clear idea on what recruit training can initially be like. My recommendation for you is work on your core stability and frequently practice holding the perfect press-up position in addition to all your training. If you do get thrashed then just take it like a man as it is only pain. The quicker you all work as a team and switch on then the quicker all the thrashings will stop - usually they last about 15 weeks. Also take the rough with the smooth and have a good laugh at it when you are at scran.

Cheers for the post mate. Very helpful now gives me a clearer idea of what to expect as i only have 23 days left of this civvie life.

Thanks for the posts guys, some very insightful stuff!

Cheers

Braywick

"two namet biff's" lol M****** and T*****. We heard that your DL wakes you up with machine gun fire in the morning lol.

ahh cpl N******* what a funny guy!

Yeah thats a fair summary lee,do u still reckon that thrashing we had last thursday was the hardest thing u ever done ??

btw hows your easter,spent all of it in bed??? lol

my blisters are still quite bad,i cant wear shoes or socks for atleast another 3-4 days

oh yeh sorry sticky blue I didn't think of that.

Jon, As soon as I arrived home I slept for 7 hours and I have been dying all weekend as I have caught that nasty infection from 'Virgin Boy'. How have you been feeling? I remember hearing alot of coughs going around last Friday and I hope that I can get rid of it today so that I can start some serious training tomorrow.

Yes, that beasting we had on the first Thursday was the worst thing I have ever gone through. Remember work on your core stability.

Can i ask what this beasting involved.