**British Armed Forces Discussion Thread**

Nice one, much respect to you, could never do army, wouldn't be brave enough lol. My dad was a physical training instructor after recovering from a landmine in a jeep. He said everyone hated the PT instructors lol
 
firthy15 said:
Heres my army timeline lets say for anyone interested:

Go into training 16 May 2010 as a REME Armourer

Application - 6th feb '09
BARB : 17th feb : passed - 83
Medical : passed
Interview 3 : passed 14th May
ADSC : 9th July B grade
Start Training 16th May 2010 - ATR Bassingbourn
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How long did you have to wait from passing ADSC to getting a date?

I have had to change job choice 2 times because it seems like most trades jobs are overmanned.
 
Filthy that is a long time I suppose from when you did ADSC to getting a date. Judging by that I still have another month or 2 to hear sweet fa.

I hope I'm hearing nothing then bang I start in a month or 2, not a case of hearing nowt for another age and then waiting for an extra half a year.

How long you been scratting in the desert andrew?
 
lemonkettaz said:
2years, Why did it take that long? What do you do in the Army?
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Took me so long because of APC Glasgow. Because I'd been in before they had to find my records before they could process my application. To do this they needed a request form. This from was sent to Glasgow on 3 occasions, and was lost on two of them. When they finally processed it, they came back and said they couldn't find my record, so they had to basically start my application again from scratch like I was a new recruit. That's what added probably over a year to the total time to get in, was rather annoying. But ah well, I'm here now, loving what I do. I should be in Germany in the next 6 months if all goes to plan :D.
 
You know you've been in the Army too long when.. said:
You use target indication to point out hot chicks...

You use the term 'chicks'

You insist on dancing like a ----, whilst your civvie mates insist on trying to dance 'properly'.

Your civvie mates don't understand any of the terminology you use such as 'no dramas', 'squared away', 'take a knee' etc....

You can't help saying "Roger", "Say again" and other snappy bits of VP

You use acronyms thinking your civvie mates will understand what you are talking about

You don't have any civvie mates....

You cringe, and mutter under your breath 'haircut', when you see men with`long hair.

You walk at a ridiculous pace and are physically incapable of walking at the shopping pace of your girlfriend.

You refer to personal organisation as "admin"

Your girlfriend is stored in your mobile phone address book as 'Zero Alpha'

You use patrol hand signals in a night club if people can't hear you

You always use the 24 hour clock.

You keep trying to box your duvet.

You iron your socks & underpants.

Everything in your locker (wardrobe) is folded, ironed, & stacked 9 x 9.

You bull your Reeboks.

You have sewn-in creases in your boxer shorts.

Nothing soldiers do shocks you any more.

You can't watch war movies without giving a running commentary.

People in prison have more contact with women than you do....

Whenever you spell something out you use the phonetic alphabet....

You don't trust your mum/wife/girlfriend/any woman to iron your kit because deep down you think that your ironing is better....

You point using your whole hand in a karate chop motion....

You find that the conversation somehow always comes back round to you, because you're more interesting than most topics of conversation....

You think not shaving is a treat....

You keep a mess tin of water in the fridge for washing & shaving on dark mornings.....

You get really irritated when people you don't know call you 'mate'....

You can read a junk mail catalogue from cover to cover and refer to everything that is useful as a Gucci bit of kit.

You refer to smoke as 'a double edged sword'.

You spend hours wondering where in civvie street you can get an equal disposable income and at least 6 weeks holiday a year, by completing an inversely proportionally tiny amount of tangible work

Your blood boils when you see civvies wearing DPM.

Going out on Thursday "international army night out" wherever it may be, or whichever course one is on, involves forming the ring-of-steel, talking about ourselves and the army and aggressively staring at girls; who if they don't immediately come over are obviously lesbians.

Should any man dare break this ritual, and despite talking to the prettiest of girls - as we would like to do, if it weren't for the fact we tend to chew our own tongues and dribble - he is clearly gay!

You come out in a cold sweat if you find yourself still working after lunch on a Friday....

You have to stop work at 10am for NAAFI break or else you might not make it to lunch....

At least half of your DVD collection are war movies....

The sight of rolling countryside makes you scan for 'enemy depth'....

You think that eating every meal for a week with the same spoon that you licked clean and kept in the pocket of the same shirt you've worn all week is perfectly normal....

All of your food has to be prepared by a chef because you're incapable of cooking anything that can't either be boiled in a bag or eaten cold....

You lie when people ask you what you do for a living.....

When leaving your phone number on a voice message you can't just give it once, has to be repeated.

When surveying open ground (when not looking for enemy in depth) you think, good tank country.

You survey open ground.

When you are pointing out some natural feature you begin with "Reference bushy topped tree etc etc"

Your girlfriend has started saying "admin" and gave you the "Chop" when telling you to put the bin out.

When meeting mates in a pub you always turn up 5 minutes early and are secretly angry that nobody else has.

Worse still, if it's a venue you haven't been to before, you turn up 15 minutes early to put in a CTR, in order that you are definitely there 5 minutes early!!!
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Shamelessly stolen from another forum, but so true :D.
 
Von Smallhausen said:
Also, what are the benefits of the ACOG over the SUSAT ?
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1 - You can't shot Susat as accurately (massive parallax error) when wearing your eye protection on ops as your eye needs to right on the lens (eye lashes touching it!) where as the ACOG has a better eye relief allowing you to get a full sight picture while wearing your eye protection.

2 - Better reticule for longer range engagements.
 
You come out in a cold sweat if you find yourself still working after lunch on a Friday....

You have to stop work at 10am for NAAFI break or else you might not make it to lunch....

You think not shaving is a treat....
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ahahaha my god SO true for the air force :D
 
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