ARmy Rumour SErvice

**afartinthefog** · 25-06-2012, 17:20

Hello I am currently in the joining process and my first job choice is a com systems op for the Royal Sigs.

I picked this job because it's a trade and if I left I would have some transferable skills if/when I left the army.

However I really want to join the infantry and do soldiering at its finest but any time I tell people this they all say something along the lines of "You won't have any skills when you leave!" "But you are too smart! Get a trade!" and I am wondering if there is any weight to these claims?

I've heard on these very forums that you can volunteer for various courses no matter what job you pick and still get some good skills that could be used in civvy street, is this true?

Also why do people always think the infantry are thick cnuts? This can't be true can it?

**MyUserName** · 25-06-2012, 17:32

Have the people you told served in the Armed Forces?

**Munter Hunter** · 25-06-2012, 17:34

I was in the infantry and I'm a thick cunt so I'd say it's true.

**The_IRON** · 25-06-2012, 17:35

Maybe worth going on the Infantry threads and asking if they are thick cnuts or even ask the people in McDonalds who told you this why they think so.

**OldSnowy** · 25-06-2012, 17:38

I was in the Infantry, and I'm not a thick cunt. However... be prepared for a physical, rather than cerebral, life.

Get a trade if you have a choice. There's few jobs for ex-snipers, NBC instructors, Drill Pigs, etc. Far more for someone who can work a PC. If you are that warry, then do your training, and do P Coy and see what goes from there. There's plenty of options.

**Zarathustra** · 25-06-2012, 17:42

What Old Snowy says, there is some scope to get various civvy qualifications in the Infantry but they are no where near as good as the qualifications you'd get from one of the Corps.

**PBUH** · 25-06-2012, 17:43

I started in the Infantry and only four people in my Section were Graduates. One of them only had O Levels, but we still spoke to him. The rest of the Platoon was very similar. We were TA mind, so it may be the academic standard is lower in the regulars.

I was also in the Royal Signals for a year or so. More scope to learn technical stuff. But nowhere near as much soldiering.

**Pebbles015** · 25-06-2012, 17:46

Originally Posted by PBUH

I started in the Infantry and only four people in my Section were Graduates. One of them only had O Levels, but we still spoke to him. The rest of the Platoon was very similar. We were TA mind, so it may be the academic standard is lower in the regulars.

I was also in the Royal Signals for a year or so. More scope to learn technical stuff. But nowhere near as much soldiering.

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**The_IRON** · 25-06-2012, 17:49

Originally Posted by crow_bag

What Old Snowy says, there is some scope to get various civvy qualifications in the Infantry but they are no where near as good as the qualifications you'd get from one of the Corps.

Ill go against that in a way though CB...When I was in an Armd Inf LAD many moon ago there were quite a number of other SNCO/WO in the mess who were Infantry who had done OU courses and had far more qualifications than us techical trades..they had lots of time and opportunity to do this whilst serving.

**Zarathustra** · 25-06-2012, 17:51

Originally Posted by The_IRON

Ill go against that in a way though CB...When I was in an Armd Inf LAD many moon ago there were quite a number of other SNCO/WO in the mess who were Infantry who had done OU courses and had far more qualifications than us techical trades..they had lots of time and opportunity to do this whilst serving.

Yes but the majority of those will have been done off their own back, not qualifications they have got through the Army. I'm thinking the type of NVQs you get from signals courses etc.