AOSB tips

• Give your max effort on the individual assault course.
• Don't let yourself be intimidated in the planning exercise debriefing (and don't start crying)
• Prepare, read a paper (not The Sun), learn something about the Army, do some PT.
• Form your own opinions on issues you read about, it's no use knowing that council tax is in the news if you can't give your views on it.
• Learn some clean jokes, I only managed to remember one and it was pap, but fortunately I never got asked.
• Think about:
  • Where you might go on holiday with your syndicate
  • Who your hero is
  • What you would spend a fiver on
• Alternatively, learn to think on your feet, a far safer option as the DS have more imagination than me (or a longer list).
• Go to the same school as the President. At the end of the group race on the last day I was called out by El Presidente who asked me 'Why the Old School isn't sending so many chaps these days...' It worked for me!
• Under no circumstances lie to make you dull life sound interesting. One lad on my AOSB found that one out the hard way.
• If you do lie and get caught then do not argue or even have a standing row with the interviewing officer (the aforementioned lad on my AOSB lost that particular argument)