passed my prmc :D

Congrats! That looks really tough but im sure its worth it.

Its lucky they didn't test your spelling/grammar. :p
 
I love reading threads like this :D. Im off to sandhurst in september 07. Cant wait going to be 44 weeks of phys no sleep but should be worth every second when i reach the end!

Ive got a friend who recently finished his officer training for RM hes now an absolute monster of a man.

Your in for some tough times just keep your head up all the way through and think of the end result! Good luck with it!

(Im off to salisbury plain next saturday for 2 weeks of Fighting in Built up Areas (FIBUA) and im so excited weeeeeeeee!)
 
hello lads,

i got 3 weeks off for summer leave wohooo

upto week 17 now things are going ok started phase 2 training now so i am classed as a basic soldier now, pay raise and i wear my green belt around camp apposed to core pattern.

i got the marksmanship badge from the 2 weeks on the range for getting a high score doing the apwt "annual personel weapons test" got hundreds of rounds down with the sa80 was great fun second week of the range packet was lsw doing another apwta with it only missed 3 rounds out of 60 doing an auto shoot with it awsome bit of kit the lsw.

from the ranges we had a week on camp doing bottom field aquant with is the assault course and man phys, grenade throwing wich was awsome and helicopter dunker drills wich was totaly awsome, inside a replica helo getting put under water and span around then escaping in day, low light and pure darkness. few people flapped and paniced lol ohh yea we got gassed in the chamber too with cs tablets blow all the air out your lungs take your resperator off take a breath of gas then say your name and number i got to p0647 then caughed my guts up and naily crapped myself i was caughing that hard and it felt like i just had acid poured into my eyes and my face was on fire lol not nice

after that we did ex running man wich was a practise run for baptist run it was a 3 day ex focused on navagation, we yomped for 3 days solid with day sacks/webbing (51lb+weapon) then on extraction we wernt fast enough so we had to carry jerry cans full of water for 2 mile was a hang out then yomp 8 mile back to camp with atleast 79lb in our burgans most of us way over i had 90lb :/ that hurt a lot.

baptist run was next this is a test of everythign we had learnt to pass us out of phase one its a 24hr ex starts with a 4 mile speed march with 21lb+ weapon then a kit muster in the drill shed, then we transported to the common did a few stances on things we lernt ( map reading, stalking, obsavation, fire control orders, obsavation orders ) then a night we got through in the pond and then setup our harbor and got a sentury running and tested on our wet and dry routine wich is getting out of your wet kit into dry kit and into your bag keeping minimal stuff out of your burgan then our dry-wet routine wich is the opposite and totaly horrible to do sentury after that we packed the stores up and did the 8 mile yomp back to camp again. when we got back to camp we did an nbc test as part of the test wich was decontamination, canister changes and administering anti nerve injections to yourself all done in the chamber full of cs how nice, anyone feeling the affects of cs yes me corpral "ahh well youve been seen off crack on".
next morning we had another kit inspection to test our deservicing and that was it over our troop got the best overall pass mark for 13 troops and got a nice chuck up from the commanding officer.

week 16 was a week of bottom field doing bpt (battle physical training) 2 hours monday 1 hour tuesday 2hours wed and 1 hour fri it the same as usual bottom field but a lot harder, few more cheeky 200m firemans carrys twice around the assault course with rope climbs inbetween running, up and down beasty nole ( a short but steep bank) then regains over the tank of water

and then we broke up on friday afternoon i will be going back into week 17 straight on ex first base doing a 5mile speed march to start it off then into a helo to the drop off point, we will be doing tactical harbour routines and section attacks mostly on this ex.

how is everyone else doing?

how did your pre prmc course go manlove?

Daz

ps i will try get some phots up, sry for any typo's too
 
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Glad to hear your having fun :)

Im going to arrange a meeting with somebody at AFCO (Air force careers office) to discuss what i might do if i decide to go into the RAF (which is more than likely)

What were your first few days like been alone? Do you make friends quickly etc or are people grouped out? I know its not the RAF but this situation is pretty similar
 
erm it was all well at the start but because we are living is such close proximity you tend to flash at people for the least bit thing it but i am sure after leave it will be back to the start all fresh and happy. for me in the marines the first 4 weeks are rubbish and its all admin and a lot of things to take in for us now hopefully figers crossed we wont be doing admin in the field no longer this means no kit musters every morning hopefully unless somone jacks on us and doesnt bother to wash himself/ his weapon
 
hey daz well done mate sounds like your enjoying it I have got a PRMC date 3rd October finally!! Yeah would be great to see some pictures, thanks for writing that up, good read. well done.
 
sorry for the delay i am on slowdem now

here is one picture, PTI just arrived ready for some field phys



more to come
 
all them guys look like they arnt listening lol

How uncomfy are the boots? Do you wear the same boots through the army/RAF/navy/marines?
 
well i just baught a pair of magnum boots today for £50 and they are 1000000x more better compaired to pussers issued, issued are a mare to break in and even broken in they are poop. i dunno about anyother forces but you have no choice in the boots you where in basic training unless you have a lower limb injury then you can get some lowers issued.

lol most of them probly arnt listening cos we were hanging out already because most of us failed morning inspection and got flanked making our eyeballs bleed before we even got to the pti lol
 
Well done Dazzza. :)

I am no expert, but you mention the LSW. I heard there plans to replace it in sections with SAW's. Is there any truth in that ? Also, has the initial bugs in the SA80 been ironed out. When it frst came out in the late 80's, the SUSAT fogged, the plastic bits shedded and snapped etc. It was crap.

Then Heckler & Koch made it into the A2 version, any better ?
 
yea the lsw may be getting phased out for the minime light machinegun (one the yanks use) but i doubt it will totaly go out of service as its a hoofing bit of kit, yea the sa80 now is damn good we batter them all over and i have only ever had one stoppage h&k bigest change was the cocking handle they made it so it deflects ejected rounds as that was the biggest downfall of the a1 they got caught in the round handle, a few other changes to such as working parts and magazine housing i think

our old troop boss was taking the phots, he is no longer with us though, he left to lead 924 troop that is on getting filmed for a documentry airing next year :(
 
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you have abit of flab hanging over your belt :p
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i blame the scran, dont worry you will taste it soon enough lol

its cos my webbing belt is abit tight i just redone the tension straps around it

ohh yea the troop is down to 29 originals from 57 inc backtroopers we have 38-39
 
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