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**Tobers** · 11-02-2012, 14:27

There was a chap in the Guards who had been to a comp but he was in the Welsh Guards and got KIA.

**Showmi_York-Hunt** · 11-02-2012, 14:27

Originally Posted by Pyianno

Sandhurst3 1of1 - YouTube

Beat me by 2 minutes sans link of course!

**crow_bag** · 11-02-2012, 14:27

Originally Posted by Pyianno

Sandhurst3 1of1 - YouTube

Your evidence is one person who was a confirmed cadet on a BBC4 Documentary? I thought I'd have an official document stating how many confirmed cadets each regiment and corps accepts each year.

**alfred_the_great** · 11-02-2012, 14:30

Originally Posted by Pyianno

How many cadets for Household Cav are selected on the basis of performance at Sandhurst? How many are even not 'confirmed cadets' before they get there?

The Officers I've worked with from HCMR came from a wide mix of backgrounds, including the first LE to mount the Queens Lifeguard, as well as several who came from Comprehensive schools and others who aren't even British. Every single one of them was intelligent and cogent about their Regiments. It seems that the best way to get into HCav nowadays is to be very very good without seeming to do any work. "Try hards" are not welcome, but then neither are slackers. Given their putative BRF function, as well as the fact they have both Para and Cdo roled Squadrons, they are (and can be) very very choosy about who they pick.

**Pyianno** · 11-02-2012, 14:30

Originally Posted by crow_bag

Your evidence is one person who was a confirmed cadet on a BBC4 Documentary? I thought I'd have an official document stating how many confirmed cadets each regiment and corps accepts each year.

Yes, and your evidence is "only a few of the confirmed cadets I knew at Sandhurst went to Household and I've got no idea how they were selected".

So fuck off and grow a pair.

**crow_bag** · 11-02-2012, 14:30

Originally Posted by Showmi_York-Hunt

Well, the speccy knob on the Sandhurst prog on the Beeb was a confirmed cadet for HC, daddy being someone in the Regiment, don't you know, and what happened to him?

Oh that's right, he was shockingly unfit, jack and would rather go beagling and polo than do a proper sport and failed to be commissioned the first time through the Factory.

And my point is, he only got HC confirmed cadet because of his family connections.

Surely the fact that he was back termed and only allowed to commission once he was at the required standard shows that it takes more than having family links to gain of commission in the HDiv, or any other regiment or corps for that matter.

**crow_bag** · 11-02-2012, 14:32

Originally Posted by Pyianno

Yes, and your evidence is "only a few of the confirmed cadets I knew at Sandhurst went to Household and I've got no idea how they were selected".

So fuck off and grow a pair.

What's the matter, don't like it when someone disagrees with you?

You do realise that confirmed cadets still need to pass AOSB and all the other stuff just to get a place at RMAS don't you?

**Pyianno** · 11-02-2012, 14:33

Originally Posted by crow_bag

Surely the fact that he was back termed and only allowed to commission once he was at the required standard shows that it takes more than having family links to gain of commission in the HDiv, or any other regiment or corps for that matter.

Nobody is saying otherwise, but the basis upon which he was initially selected was not meritocratic.

**Pyianno** · 11-02-2012, 14:33

Originally Posted by crow_bag

What's the matter, don't like it when someone disagrees with you?

I'm quite happy to be disagreed with, but you demand evidence having produced none yourself and then refute that presented to you, so there's not much point arguing with you is there?