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Hiya,
I've got my POC next Monday (17th) and I'm really nervous already... I know quite a few of you guys have done your POC/PRMC and I'm sure my feelings are not unusual, but I was wondering if you had any tips on how to calm down! At the moment it feels as if I'm going to be shot on Monday! I know Saffer is going down same time as me; how you feeling? Also, as a side question; does anyone else break a lot of wind doing sit ups??? Am I a freak? Odd question I know...

On the nerves part I wasn't very nervous before PRMC but when I went into the mess for the first time and saw all of the other recruits it struck me but after a while talking to the other lads you'll calm down and Im sure you won't want to leave when it's over. About breaking wind it does happen sometimes when pushing for those few reps near the end, dont worry .

Make sure yoou are super fit and that all your questions are answered befour you go there. This will give you an upper hand and you will find the course a little easyer.

Can't help. Make sure you have a good meal the night before, you won't sleep a wink so double check your kit or something, watch motivational films such as <insert favourite war movie>, or whatever.

By the time you get to Exeter station you'll be bricking it...the train from Exeter to the camp is a one-carriage affair, so go talk to any likely looking lad and he'll be in exactly the same boat as you. Then you get to shake all the way to the camp, with the train stopping every two minutes and trundling along slowly...the slowest 20 minutes of your life!!

When you disembark, attempt to translate what the guard at the gate is trying to say to you in some very thick Scottish, Scouse, Mancunian, Cockney or Welsh accent (they have a different one for each day of the week), and make a mental note to change underwear at the earliest opportunity.

Once you're in you'll start to calm down as you get to know the lads in your room and the Cpl gets you to run some shit jobs...then lie awake all night again before the pain starts the next morning...

After the first phys you won't have time to feel nervous until it's all over and you're waiting for the course results...

End of the day, you're there to have fun !!