Why join the army

Drop the gym sessions for kick boxing. Boxing is the most physically intensive sport I've done bar none. I was in the ring for about 20 mins and I was hooped. I'm seriously considering starting to do something like this again for my routine. You don't need a gym anyway you can exercise any muscle you need to on your own at home :).
 
Well i think ive got the fitness side underway so i think i need to know about the actual army life.
Questions:
1.I understand the army is a very strict and mentally hard, but what makes it so mentally hard. Do you get near constant verbal abuse from your superiors.

2.I understand they break you and build you up again into the soilder they need, how do they do that, and i dont mean the physical side.

3.I understand you live in accommandation where about 8-15 ppl sleep in but when you got a weekend off where do you stay then, could you stay at your room.
 
bakes0310 said:
Well i think ive got the fitness side underway so i think i need to know about the actual army life.
Questions:
1.I understand the army is a very strict and mentally hard, but what makes it so mentally hard. Do you get near constant verbal abuse from your superiors.

2.I understand they break you and build you up again into the soilder they need, how do they do that, and i dont mean the physical side.

3.I understand you live in accommandation where about 8-15 ppl sleep in but when you got a weekend off where do you stay then, could you stay at your room.
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1. The army takes bullying very seriously and i doubt you'll get any abuse. However you will get a lot of 'encouragement'.

2. The British army don't 'break' people. What's the point in breaking a man if his individuality and skills are what diversify your team? However you will most defiantly be institutionalised.

3. No idea I'm not going in as a private.
 
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Hugogo said:
2. The British army don't 'break' people. What's the point in breaking a man if his individuality and skills are what diversify your team? However you will most defiantly be institutionalised.
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I would have thought this would be true for officers but if youve got men going into the infantry the one thing you dont want is a man who thinks hes an individual fighting a war you want men who will react to the orders being given and ask questions later, and act like one body.
If you see where im coming from.
 
Hey hey, just noticed this thread.
I'm in the Army - if you want it from the horses' mouth, feel free to add me to MSN. E-mail in trust.
 
Joining the army was the best thing i ever did. Was in for 6 years and was medically discharged otherwise i would never have left!

Training is the bull s***t part but once you are through that everything changes. Yeah you share a room for a little while, yeah you get some grot bags that dont wash, snore or just stink but once training is over it all changes. And a lot of the accomodation is being improved meaning you get your own room, broadband and digital (NTL you pay), en-suite, etc etc.

All in all a good life and good fun!!

If its not for you, then you will know in the first 2 weeks in training and you get out!
 
bakes0310 said:
To see the world
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That is possibly the worst reason I have ever heard for potentially getting shot at on purpose.

To do my part in protecting this great country
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You'd be better off joining the Police for that. Lately the British Army is off attacking other people's countries in case you hadn't noticed.

To be a better person whos disciplined and a real man :) :p
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Now that's a good reason.
 
bakes0310 said:
Well i think ive got the fitness side underway so i think i need to know about the actual army life.
Questions:
1.I understand the army is a very strict and mentally hard, but what makes it so mentally hard. Do you get near constant verbal abuse from your superiors.

2.I understand they break you and build you up again into the soilder they need, how do they do that, and i dont mean the physical side.

3.I understand you live in accommandation where about 8-15 ppl sleep in but when you got a weekend off where do you stay then, could you stay at your room.
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Do not go in the army with any expectations of what you think it will be like, if you think it will be hard and want a challenge and its not you will be dissaponted, if you think it will be easy and its not again you will be dissapointed - Have no expections, take everyday as it comes, do what your told when your told..........The only person that makes the army easy or hard is yourself. Once your training has finished and your posted to you unit then its a differnt life altogether, the army is not for everyone and a lot of poeple drop out during training but training is different to regular army life. I actually enjoyed my army training and thought it was great..... Just take one day at a time, get that day over and done with and then get on with the next
 
The ways things are heading you must be prepared to fight. I know you'll say you are, but I mean REALLY prepared.

I turned down my offer from the Army nearly two years ago now, I do wonder sometimes where I would have been at this stage. (It was for the Royal Signals as a Information Systems Tech).

I decided to stick out college/uni and return to the Army later in life if I was still interested. I do have to admit, it doesn't appeal to me right now.
 
im gonna phone them up later today to find out about the fitness requirements. From what my mate was telling me when he was in it. He said they dont expect you to be really fit they sort that out for you.
 
bakes0310 said:
im gonna phone them up later today to find out about the fitness requirements. From what my mate was telling me when he was in it. He said they dont expect you to be really fit they sort that out for you.
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10.2 bleep test OR 10 mins 30 seconds mile and a half.

44 press ups in (2 mins)
50 sit ups (2 mins)

This is the basic standard.
 
Hugogo said:
10.2 bleep test OR 10 mins 30 seconds mile and a half.

44 press ups in (2 mins)
50 sit ups (2 mins)

This is the basic standard.
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are you sure thats right cause my mate said hes never done that many pressups in his life, and he was in the infantry for 8 years.
 
bakes0310 said:
are you sure thats right cause my mate said hes never done that many pressups in his life, and he was in the infantry for 8 years.
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A press up is a psuh up right?

Dont worry about it if it is :)

I managed from struggling ot do 10 in a row to being able to do 50-60 in a row in just 1 week :cool:
 
Well ive just phoned them up and i asked about pushups and the bloke said 50 in 2 mins :eek: but he did say thats more of a guidline and they would like to see you have the ability to do that many. And that you would be doing that anyway by the end of your training.
 
bakes0310 said:
Well ive just phoned them up and i asked about pushups and the bloke said 50 in 2 mins :eek: but he did say thats more of a guidline and they would like to see you have the ability to do that many. And that you would be doing that anyway by the end of your training.
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Like i said, it is pretty easy to get up to doing 50 push ups in a row :)


The way i did it was by playing Medieval total war 2. Every time i got one of there horrendously slow loading screens i would try put in as many push ups as i could \o/
 
bakes0310 said:
im gonna phone them up later today to find out about the fitness requirements. From what my mate was telling me when he was in it. He said they dont expect you to be really fit they sort that out for you.
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Get fit before you go m8, it will be a lot less painful if you do.
 
Zip said:
A press up is a psuh up right?

Dont worry about it if it is :)

I managed from struggling ot do 10 in a row to being able to do 50-60 in a row in just 1 week :cool:
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:eek: :eek:
How the hell you manage that. When i first started doing training about 3 months ago i could only do about 5 and now i can just manage 20, and your saying you can do 50-60 within 1 week :eek:
 
bakes0310 said:
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How the hell you manage that. When i first started doing training about 3 months ago i could only do about 5 and now i can just manage 20, and your saying you can do 50-60 within 1 week :eek:
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Its all in the Medieval total war loading screans :cool:

Once you play that all night and have so many loading screans you can scream through push ups :p
 
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