Thankyou, for all the info.

I'll try e company 7 rifles then, if I can't get on a tour in time I'll see about that FTRS.

I'd rather not go back to 4 mercian due to falling out with someone over "lost kit" which I handed in and he forgot to tick off (or rather I signed without making sure it was). He's a colour and I'm a private so if I'm doing loads of DIE weekends in company there's endless opportunity to fuk me about.

Isn't there a Rifles Coy as part of 4 Mercian? You'd be 'part of the family' and eligible to deploy with any of the Rifles Bn's, or indeed any other Inf Bn.

Yes there is, Shewsbury I think. It's probably easier to get to Milton Keynes.

Originally Posted by platoonmong

I'd rather not go back to 4 mercian due to falling out with someone over "lost kit" which I handed in and he forgot to tick off (or rather I signed without making sure it was). He's a colour and I'm a private so if I'm doing loads of DIE weekends in company there's endless opportunity to fuk me about.

I feel your pain.

On the plus side, E Coy has some cracking lads and from April the DIE training will kick in with the goodies that this entails. I think they still have a mortar platoon there too if that's your thing. Reference FTRS, to get on one you'll actually need to be a reservist of some nature i.e. either Regular Reserve or TA, so you would have to rejoin in any case.

Sounds fun, but I'm so fookin fed up at the moment of civvy life, even NBC drills sound fun.

CBRN...

Same shit different name!!

Yeah, I was still in when they changed the name it just been a few too many pints ago.

I think they've renamed the PFT or BPFA or whatever the fuk it's called now as well since I left in early 2010, I'm just wondering what else has changed, I read in another thread on here something about a sharpshooter rifle, is that L96 or somthing else?

PFA - Personal Fitness Assessment
CFT is now an AFT - Annual Fitness Test

Probably loads of others, recruits, became SUT's and now they're recruits again!!

The sharpshooter rifle isn't L96. I've only ever seen them in pictures, so not an expert by any means!!

It's probably something as a stab you only get handed in theatre after a WHT when someone else is sick of carrying it.

That's what happened with my minimi.

Originally Posted by CC_TA

FTRS Job Opportunities - British Army Website

Have a look below documents and click on Reserve Assignments Opportunities List, an excel spreadsheet will download with various jobs available, have a look through and see if there are any that you fancy. E2 posts are open to all cap badges if you are qualified.

Good luck!

This is well the quickest method; MATT's, build up training and then out.

If you go the TA route you'll be lucky if you don't have to complete your Recruits Course and you've been out for almost three years.