Anyone Joined the Navy After Uni?

mp3kla said:
2.4km in 12mins 20 seconds... Hmmm.

Sounds hard. I've started jogging home from work and thats 2.5km - I'll time myself next time.
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its on a treadmill, makes it a hell of a lot easier :)



Ohhh a 1st is a bachelors, and not a 70%+ ??!?! wehey, if i scrape a third i could use that?!? :D
 
I have the final stages of selection to become an Army Officer coming up in 2 weeks if you want to talk about that then i am willing to email is in trust. (I graduated in Computer Science in 07 too).
 
Well I'm slightly chuffed, my fitness isnt that great and I just ran 2.5km - 50% of it was uphill in 15mins.

My aim is to run it in 12mins 20seconds by Easter.
 
mp3kla said:
Well I'm slightly chuffed, my fitness isnt that great and I just ran 2.5km - 50% of it was uphill in 15mins.

My aim is to run it in 12mins 20seconds by Easter.
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You have up to a month to take the fitness test after your interview is all done and dusted aswell so theres no rush, dont use that as an excuse to slack off but at the same time dont push yourself too hard or you will lose motivation. If you really intend to do this it's best to get it sorted as fast as possible. Im not sure what the waiting times are like for officers but i had an 11 month wait ahead of me when i was accepted(still have a fair few months yet unless i wanted to join as a submariner..) so the sooner you get it done the sooner you 'can' potentially join

Zefan said:
Good luck! I'm aiming for under 10 minutes by then, I'm going to need to beast myself :p
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Pfft i got under 10 and im just going in as a regular grunt, i've been letting myself go recently though.. :o. The fitness test has nothing on the actual marines training, jogging at 9mph+ for around 30 minutes isnt something i would want to do in a hurry
 
Zefan said:
Good luck! I'm aiming for under 10 minutes by then, I'm going to need to beast myself :p
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I'm not built for distance running and my stamina is awful. At school I was top at 100m / 200m and even then 200m was pushing it for me.

I'm about to buy some running shoes - just saw the post about running shoes by platypus - I found a place that does GAIT Analysis literally 5mins walk from my house! The shoes I'm using now are absolute crap - it feels like my ankles and calf muscles are gnna go through my knees.
 
Robert said:
I graduated in July '07 and after having the summer off, I went in to looking for work.

Lately though I've been really tempted to join the navy (always had an interest). I don't know where to begin though. As I said - I've always had an interest and have just browsed their website, but there's so many career paths.

I'd like to go in to something IT related or something similar in the Army.

I do have a few concerns and those are:

Fitness
Confidence
Willingness to jump in i.e. leaving home, friends, family and doing something radically different.

Any advice/comments welcome :)
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First thing to do would be get yourself down to an AFCO(Armed Forces Careers Office) and have a chat to an Naval officer, and an officer from the Army. They will be able to talk to you about any questions you have, regarding things like fitness, career paths etc, good friendly fellas in them usually.

Regarding fitness, you don't have to be super fit to join, you have to pass some selection tests, which vary from trade to trade(they do in the Army anyway), and slightly higher for officer. When you get to basic training, you will probably be less fit than when you went for selection, people seem to get a bit lazy between selection and actually starting lol. But they will build up your fitness at a good rate, nothing too hard to be honest, but not easy either.

Confidence is something you will actually learn when you get to basic training. I was a shy guy before I went to basic, not quiet, but low self confidence etc. Once I came out(due to an injury unfortunately) I had much more confidence in my self, in what I could do, things like that. Has helped me a lot in civvy life since leaving.

The willing to jump in etc, well, everyone is in that boat pretty much, except for the very few who may be rejoining etc. As you've finished uni etc, I'm guessing you will be a bit older, so you can expect to be around much younger people, such as 17/18 year olds, who for them, it will probably be worse. But you will make some great mates, and stick together. When someone is down, everyone tries to cheer them up. if someone is struggling with something, people join in and try and help them, there is so much team work in the forces, it's great.


Good luck with what ever you choose to do though dude :).
 
mp3kla said:
I'm not built for distance running and my stamina is awful. At school I was top at 100m / 200m and even then 200m was pushing it for me.
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I done the run in under 10 minutes when I had the flu, you'll manage.

Fitness is the major issue. Make sure you can iron before you join. I had to teach one guy how to iron :confused:
 
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