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Hi, I'm Fent, I've been browsing the forums for a few weeks now and decided I would sign up. I'm currently training with British Military Fitness to get my fitness up, obviously lol I started at around 19stone and currently at 15st 7, so I got about another stone to go before I can finally make an application, its been a long 4months losing the 3stone so far! Ive been considering joining Pioneers, REME or maybe even the Infantry.

Look forward to hearing from some of you, Fent!

Well done on the weight loss so far, and good luck for the rest of it!
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Welcome!

Well done on the weight loss that's impressive you clearly have the drive, keep up the good work.

Cheers for the replies lads. I am commited, I'm 26 so my age is heading in the wrong direction, so i need to this now before it is to late.

Two things...
First: I'm not a lad (Woulda thought the fairy on my avatar would be a bit of a clue!)
Second: I joined up when I was 3 months short of 27, so it doesn't have to be an issue. You may not be as fit as some of the youngsters, but you'll have a lot more life experience, and that'll help a lot. Your fitness will improve massively during training - my 1.5 mile time went from 12:58 to 10:52 in 10 weeks, but I was the only girl on my course, so I didn't have much say in the matter. (13:00 was my max time allowed, so I was cutting it quite fine when I started...)

More people above the Age of 25 Join, than people realise.

Hyperlithe wrote:Two things...
First: I'm not a lad (Woulda thought the fairy on my avatar would be a bit of a clue!)

Sorry!! I didnt look at youre avatar! I feel stupid now LOL!

Suppose I'm making more of an issue than it really is. All I can do is get myself in as good as shape as I can before selection!

Nice to see people interested in joining, I Going TA first, i wanted to go regular, but the local army office said i was looking at about a 1-2 year waiting to get into my chosen career. so i thought do the TA for time being, get some training sorted then go back to basic with some experience under my belt. Not ideal but it's better than nothing.

I myself am looking at either doing Armourer or CMT still debating, although i'm more favoured towards Armourer, because I have some knowledge in the area which would prove useful.

Any way, good luck to ya.

Mod note: If you want to do a job, best learn to spell it first... Unless you're joining the US military, in which case, as you were!