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Discuss The 5 Phases of Turning Civvie. at the NOW That's What I Call ARRSE 1 forum within the The Army Rumour Service website; I left in 2001, the missus has just turned Civvie after 22. It's struck me ...
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23-10-2010, 10:16 #1Member
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The 5 Phases of Turning Civvie.
I left in 2001, the missus has just turned Civvie after 22. It's struck me that she is going through the very same identifiable stages of 'transition' as I did.
1. Thank f**k for that.
2. I thought I'd have more time on my hands...
3. Why doesn't anyone tell me what's going on? (Well sweetheart....)
4. I never got a Regimental / Corps plaque...
5. Don't throw those away!! (Random bog standard course notes on some obscure aspect of Army Nursing with a foreword by Florence Nightingale)
Discuss.
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23-10-2010, 10:26 #2Senior Member
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Did she grow a beard and let her grow then? Has she joined a union?
"Alright, they're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time."
"We have reason to believe that man first walked upright to free his hands for masturbation." - Lily Tomlin
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23-10-2010, 10:36 #3Senior Member
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There is also phase 6:-
6. Having left. A few years later wishing you hadn't and realising even the bad times were good and wishing you were back in.
Sent from my iPhone using ARRSEallythegreenfinch likes this.'Life is what happens arround you when everybody else is making plans' - John Lennon
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23-10-2010, 11:17 #4Senior Member
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One major sign is a slow retreat from needing to check Arrse on a daily basis for the 'green' hit.
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23-10-2010, 11:22 #5Senior Member
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7. Looking down and wondering, what the fuck is that round thing under your jumper that's obscuring your feet?
P.S. Doesn't apply to AGC, they haven't seen theirs since they completed Phase 1!
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23-10-2010, 13:33 #6Senior Member
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8. Reliving the glory days to anyone who will listen in the pub?
This was posted from my laptop using IE 8, Broadband and all ten of my fingers.
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23-10-2010, 14:22 #7Moderator
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Your 5 are the same as my missus went through to a tee. And if yours is anything like mine, it will be followed by a brain dump of all things military, resulting in questions that anyone with the briefest of acquaintances with the forces should be able to answer.
"..there has seldom if ever been a shortage of eager young males prepared to kill and die to preserve the security, comfort and prejudices of their elders, and what you call heroism is just an expression of this simple fact; there is never a scarcity of idiots."
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23-10-2010, 15:27 #8Senior Member
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Your memories of oppos names fails and you only know faces and sound like a complete walt trying to recount people and places you should be able to fire off rapidly
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23-10-2010, 16:22 #9Senior Member
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You realise you haven't seen your boot brushes for ages. In fact, you binned them and didn't even realise!
It's Tommy this an' Tommy that
an' "Chuck 'im out the brute",
But it's "Saviour of 'is Country,
when the guns begin to shoot.
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Pararegtom 'I'm a milkman.'
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24-10-2010, 08:40 #10Member
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I'm still developing a further stage, watching reports from Afghanistan and saying "What the f**k is that he's wearing / carrying / firing?"...
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