Irongron said:
Now my question is - and if this defiles OPSEC then please delete this mail - but while you're in Germany or the North, do you gather intelligence on what's going on in Iraq or Afghanistan or is it just gathering stuff on dissident republicans while you're in the North and neo-Nazis (for example) while you're in Germany?
Typical day:
0630: alarm goes off. Think about getting up and going for run. Press snooze button.
0640: press snooze button again.
0650: press snooze button again.
0700: think about pressing snooze button again but realise that need to urinate supersedes desire to stay in bed.
0702: urinate, defecate, shower, shave; pick CS95 up from floor and consider whether to iron it - decide against; dress.
0705: take Brufen for nagging hangover.
0712: arrive at breakfast. Briefly consider healthy muesli and fresh fruit option before loading plate with egg, bacon, sausages, fried bread, black pudding, with a dollop of healthy baked beans for fibre.
0715: get coffee.
0718: get more coffee.
0721: get more coffee.
0725: go outside for first cigarette of the day, cough up docker's omelette the size of a soup plate. Feel better.
0732: go back to accommodation, brush teeth, collect daysack.
0740: cycle in to office.
0750: arrive at office, get brew on.
0800 - 1030: paint vehicles.
1030-1100: Naafi break.
1100-1230: paint more vehicles.
1230-1350: lunch.
1400: briefing from M.
1415: catch train with beautiful, mysterious Treasury official to luxury Montenegran casino.
1900: shag beautiful, mysterious Treasury official.
1903: kill two marauding bad guys.
1905: put on dinner jacket.
1910-2230: play high stakes 'Texas hold 'em' against sinister terrorist banker. Clean him out.
2245-2315: get captured and genitally tortured by sinister terrorist banker. Escape and kill him. Shag beautiful, mysterious Treasury official again.
2320: Learjet back to barracks.
2345: bed.
Obviously, not every day is like this. Sometimes you might be asked to stick some maps together for a forthcoming exercise or help with a stores check. You may even get a slack day when you can spend some time posting on Arrse, or even reading the 'recruiting' sticky above in which this question has been answered - as far as is possible - on a number of occasions.