As the title suggests, yesterday I returned from doing Army Selection at Pirbright.
I want to go in as a Royal Engineer Sparks, and I did get offered the job as I had passed everything to the required standard. However, my 2 days at the ADSC have seemingly put me off the idea of joining.
Is it normal for Army recruits to go into the mess hall without showering first?! It must have been a good 10 hours before we even got the chance to shower, I felt like a right minging tw@t for ages!
Don't get me wrong, I didn't struggle with anything physical or mental that they had us doing, or the team tasks, but I did have an issue with a certain Coporal who had short-fat-man-with-glasses syndrome. This tw@t obviously thought he was the dog's and gods gift to the Army and the hardest cnut alive, but he did nothing but annoy me with bigging himself and his so-called "hard" mates in the fckin drop shots.
The only coporal I had any respect for was the scottish PTI. Even though he was the one who beasted us (and I use that term loosely, it was nothing impossible) he seemed the most genuine out of the whole training team. The officers strung out their speeches that were obviously the 100th time they had said them, it was all the same bullsh1t.
Much was said about the 14 weeks training, but little or nothing about Phase 2 or even trade training, which is why most of us were there. Sure, teach us about grenades, even test us on them, but most of us are there for technical trades, and while I understand it is part of basic which everyone goes through, I feel that maybe more could have been done to convince us that going through the Army for these trades was the best way.
So, I am now undecided about what to do. Not sure what kind of response I am looking for from the ARRSE community, and I know that there will probably be slaggings towards me, which I am prepared for and not too concerned about, but if anyone has any positive advice (or negative) then fire away please.
Cheers
I want to go in as a Royal Engineer Sparks, and I did get offered the job as I had passed everything to the required standard. However, my 2 days at the ADSC have seemingly put me off the idea of joining.
Is it normal for Army recruits to go into the mess hall without showering first?! It must have been a good 10 hours before we even got the chance to shower, I felt like a right minging tw@t for ages!
Don't get me wrong, I didn't struggle with anything physical or mental that they had us doing, or the team tasks, but I did have an issue with a certain Coporal who had short-fat-man-with-glasses syndrome. This tw@t obviously thought he was the dog's and gods gift to the Army and the hardest cnut alive, but he did nothing but annoy me with bigging himself and his so-called "hard" mates in the fckin drop shots.
The only coporal I had any respect for was the scottish PTI. Even though he was the one who beasted us (and I use that term loosely, it was nothing impossible) he seemed the most genuine out of the whole training team. The officers strung out their speeches that were obviously the 100th time they had said them, it was all the same bullsh1t.
Much was said about the 14 weeks training, but little or nothing about Phase 2 or even trade training, which is why most of us were there. Sure, teach us about grenades, even test us on them, but most of us are there for technical trades, and while I understand it is part of basic which everyone goes through, I feel that maybe more could have been done to convince us that going through the Army for these trades was the best way.
So, I am now undecided about what to do. Not sure what kind of response I am looking for from the ARRSE community, and I know that there will probably be slaggings towards me, which I am prepared for and not too concerned about, but if anyone has any positive advice (or negative) then fire away please.
Cheers