**British Armed Forces Discussion Thread**

Sounds like you had some decent roles did 7 weeks of patting sweaty people down but knowing that I helped keep the venue safe made it all worth it.

Sounds cliche but it's true.
 
lemonkettaz said:
You don't really do anything in the first week apart from admin.

ex first night in week 3 or 4 was when it went a bit sour for us.
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Ex First Nights, when you have zero noise discipline at all, and carry your doss bag in your bergan and that's it. Seemed like a hardship at the time! lol.

We're on a 'back to basics' exercise soon, so can't be arsed! Even more so that we come off the exercise on Friday, and I'm off sailing on Saturday for 2 weeks lol.
 
Not the first ex you do at basic.. the 2nd one, some reason its called "first night", the one where you get contacted loads and get taught how to leopard crawl, also told nicely to crawl the track plan.

We are apparently going to be doing a lot more "live out your bergen" exercises soon
 
We had the Corps Colonel visiting today, they're starting to push training to post Afghan now, try and get us out the mindset of deploying over and over on ops, more green amy stuff that I can't be bothered with :p.

And I'm sure the first exercise is called First Nights, then followed by Mid-Ex, then Final Fling? I can't remember now mind you, not even my room mate can remember lol.
 
I am still a turbo sprog, so I remember :)

We all just got a nice letter from someone important telling us that we are going old school.

Supposedly our sqn are doing more artisan trade stuff in the next year, hopefully.
 
Ghosteh said:
We had the Corps Colonel visiting today, they're starting to push training to post Afghan now, try and get us out the mindset of deploying over and over on ops, more green amy stuff that I can't be bothered with :p.
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Yeah over the next 2 years our Regt are slowly moving more towards that as well, after our next herrick rotation we will be focusing more on that.
i dont see myself hanging around too long post herrick, not too keen on the idea of having no forseeable operational deployments, camp life is just too dull and restrictive, i reckon i'll get 2/3 more years before the boredom fully kicks in and then it'll be time for me to move on to something different.
 
What are the exercises, just for my piece of mind, because it's bugging the hell out of me :p lol.

I'm just hoping for posting in around 8 months time, get onto my Class 1, work on getting my degree!
 
steve45 said:
Yeah over the next 2 years our Regt are slowly moving more towards that as well, after our next herrick rotation we will be focusing more on that.
i dont see myself hanging around too long post herrick, not too keen on the idea of having no forseeable operational deployments, camp life is just too dull and restrictive, i reckon i'll get 2/3 more years before the boredom fully kicks in and then it'll be time for me to move on to something different.
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What we are being told is that we're moving towards a more 'civilian ' type life style, so for example, for a few days out the week, working with a civilian company to work on trade skill, for the advance of solder skills, skills for the Army, and aiding civilian companies too, seems like it could be interesting if you get somewhere good. Need to see what Army 2020 has to offer.
 
I have this bugging urge to not trust everything my recruiter says.

I join on the 22nd Oct - Basic 14weeks, then 23weeks on my phase2 so thats 37 weeks, takes me to july next year before I'm done. As c3s in the RE.

I'm wondering what will I do after phase2? My recruiter said if/when I goto afgan I'll be bringing equipment back. I'm really not sure what to expect from my job, I've heard more negatives about it being boring and to get a real trade ect ect but I've read some positives to.

Anyone able to answer for me?
 
ToejaMz0r said:
My recruiter said if/when I goto afgan I'll be bringing equipment back.
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Cant really speak for your job role, however if you do manage to get a tour in before herrick closes down, then i'd be inclined to believe him on this one, there is inevitably a lot of kit and equipment that needs to be dismantled and returned, as we draw down and draw back our guys from the CP's and PB's towards the end of herrick, my next tour will be pretty much spent doing the exact same thing for our stuff.
 
I've never said to him I'm scared/worried about the place though, I just asked him flat out what I'd be doing over there and he said bringing stuff back. So I asked him what I'd be doing if it was a few years ago, he said anything.. patrolling, in a base, fixing vechs. Guess I'm just paranoid people are always after their monthly targets.

Though my job is basically a signaller in the RE. I use a radio I guess and deal with the chatter. Though as someone in the RE I get the combat engineer course to. I really hope its not rubbish. Though I think I'd rather do 4 years in the army than another year in this supermarket I work for :)
 
There is a lot of stripping out to do in afghan, apparently the last herrick is end of 2014, so whether guys still go out after that as part of the stripping out process I dont know.

Depends what unit you get posted to, might not even go out.

Looks like the army is in the mindset of post afghan training from now on.
 
Well, looking at all the battle camps and exercises coming it, it certainly looks that way. We're set to go out to HERRICK at the end of 2013, so we're going to be smashed on both cold war style exercises, and preparing for Afghan exercises. Going to be a busy time for sure! Hopefully I won't get extended for that tour though!
 
steve45 said:
you on 19? I'll be out there for 19, cant wait, just wish i could fast forward past the PDT phase.
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I think that's which one we're set to go on. I just hope I'm not on it lol. Not bothered about deploying to Afghan again, I just can't be bothered working with the muppets from my unit lol.
 
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