ARmy Rumour SErvice

Originally Posted by Last to know

Never did P Coy myself, but as you will not be the only one asking the question, a simple recommendation would be that with a year to go you have time to join a boxing club: a good test of fitness, focus and commitment.

The important bit is highlighted...

Originally Posted by Schaden

Baby steps grasshopper...get used to running lots wearing boots and carrying a big nasty handbag on your back and then worry about deserts and jungles.

sound advice

Originally Posted by chocolate_frog

Gobby were you?

No, I've just got one of them faces you'd like to punch.

Originally Posted by northern-matelot

Worked with booties on attachment for past 3 years, apart from going out to ganners, my regiment have only done 1 foreign exercise to Norway (the Regiments rotate who goes up from what I gleaned) for my artic-warfare juniors course. There is no way to prepare for the level of cold and wet you'll get IF you ever get that far.

My bold.

Have things changed that much that the AWT/NSSC have been renamed, aswell as 3 Cdo Bde Units
calling themselves Regiments now?

3 years?

Originally Posted by Honky Tonk Donk

I don't know how you've been left with that impression, the Army and Para Reg in particular are normally very good at selling the idea of being a coiled springlike force ready to deploy anywhere, in any enviroment, at the thunderclap of a fart.

Don't set your watch by it but expect at least one trip abroad every year. Can be more. Bn level deployments used to work in 2 year cycles and more often than not involved sweating your nuts off in Kenya or Belize. Coy minus deployments will occur more often than not and could involve literally anything from Artic training initiated by lobbing into Canadas frozen lakes, Desert training in Oman, Jungle training in Belize and Brunei or a visit to the training centre in Kenya. There are dozens of other training packages so if your that interested, get yourself subscribed to Para Reg's "Pegasus Magazine" which will show you the vast scope of training undertaken by the Bns.

BUT like has already been said, before you get to enjoy the delights of jungle river crossings you will have to learn the trade the traditional way by spending hundreds of man hours grafting up and down the various hideous training areas within the UK!

I thought BATSUB is gone...

Originally Posted by BushrangerCZ

I thought BATSUB is gone...

Not gone but "moth balled".
Other than re-tasking the old BATSUB AAC Flight over to BATUS I'm not sure to what form or scale this mothballing has taken but I do know that units have continued to train there albeit on a smaller scale than in the past.

Originally Posted by northern-matelot

Worked with booties on attachment ....... etc.... There is no way to prepare for the level of cold and wet you'll get IF you ever get that far.

I found stumbling around Guz in the middle of the night after swamping myself helped.

Also, blackshod training in the highlands or bimbling around Brecon, Otterburn, Dartmoor and any other shitehole you'd care to mention gives you a fair impression of being cold and wet. Admittedly there is no where in the UK you can prepare yourself for a "grab a gronk" night in Norway or experience a nice "dry" cold.

Originally Posted by tentoes

My bold.

Have things changed that much that the AWT/NSSC have been renamed, aswell as 3 Cdo Bde Units
calling themselves Regiments now?

3 years?

Part of Commando Logistic Regiment.