Ive been training for less than 3 weeks but i was fairly fit anyway, my 1.5 mile time is shite because i have just been sat behind a college desk for ages and doing nothing, yet my upper and middle body strength has always been alright:

Pull-ups = 20 palms facing face, 17 facing forward.
Press-ups= 50-70 tends to vary depending on when i last did them.
Sit-ups=70

I can't be arsed to do a 3 mile yet but i guess it will be just as s*** as my 1.5 miler!

I just can't wait to leave Fking Sh!ty civy life ,

1.5 mile - 10:30 average
3 mile - best 22:37 , jog it in 24:09
4.5 mile - 36:31
6 mile - 54 mins

61 pressups in 2 mins
61 sit ups in 2 mins


Lift weights 2X bodyweight

Couldn't run/do press ups for s*** last year.

good lad!!!

gonna take my app to the recruitment office tommorow, hopefully it will be accepted

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I went in for my first meeting type thing yesterday, got the booklets for what I'm hoping to go into and some other information booklets.. Got told if I'm successful in my application there's a 30% chance my first posting could be Germany, anyone else been told that??

Do you want to be based in Germany? I have a girlfriend here so it would be difficult for me to, but i guess you just get told to do it, and do it!

Im at the medical questionaire stage, they are retreiving my medical forms from the TA and my recruiter is on leave at the moment.

I wanted to get in before i was 18 but i left it too long, i have to resist getting smashed and keeping up with my training because im tapering off what with it being cold outside

How old are you guys?

Im 16, getting in as early as possible

Did my barb and stuff begining of september, been six weeks waiting for an interview date!

It's killing me just want to get there...
surpose it gives me time to get my fitnes up!

6 weeks! And i thought they were desperate for troops!

Im 17, not 18 until next June so got a while to get in lol. Applied around 3 months ago got my ADSC next thursday.

Depends what you go for i think with the germany posting, the regiment i want to join is currently based in Celle, Germany so i guess there is a quite high chance of me getting posted there.

Started my application September 07, had my BARB around October sent medical forms off, doctor was being a cu*t trying to say i had asthma when i hadn't, had to send off a letter saying the army could view my medical records. Then the Christmas time came, got my interview around May 08, went for selection June 3rd. Got knocked back on the medical now the doctors taking the piss 'attempting' to sort it out. Going to ring the doctors tomorrow see what progress they haven't made, hopefully if all goes well the next selection i get I'll atleast get the chance to attempt the fitness tests.

Oh and i'm 17, 18 in June as well.

Exactly 1 year after first thinking in joining I decided it was time to go through that door and sign. After getting the needed BARB points for my job joice I realised I could actually do this. Filling the medical forms and passing the 1.5 mile run is next, then selection. Then, growing a set to actually cope training with a bunch of teenagers and proving to myself I can do this.

Im waiting out the next couple of weeks until my next selection date in November. I handed in my application form in mid July, sorted out my meds, and went to pre-selection course in August (11:21 run-time, 11 heaves, average on team tasks, very strong on ice-breaker). Got given a selection date for the 23rd of September, but I got deferred for having a heart murmur and was told by my recruiter that I couldn't go to another selection until my braces were removed (was anyone else told this; I thought you could go through selection and phase 1 with braces on). I was lucky enough to have a heart murmur scan with a young blond doctor the same week, and to skip the queue at my orthodontists centre to have my braces removed the next week.
So far, not too bad. Im 17, 18 next moth. Anyone else going for Communication System Engineer?

What are you palnning of joining?

i start basic at pirbright on 24th Nov. Take my oath nxt thurs! joinin as CMT

Well done lad, good luck!

ha ha im a lady!

Good lass!

I just got offered my first interview this morning!! I applied around 5 months ago (2 months were spent messing around with the doctors trying to get my rg8's sorted!). Really getting my head down now as I have a week til the interview. I will be attending in a suit and polished shoes!