Hi , currently debating between joining as a royal marines officer or infantry officer. During my research I found one post about how being a royal marine officer is fairly shitty. How for the first stage of your career (a good few years at least) you're a paperwork slave , you will have usually a year max of being a troop commander. After that regular tours are no longer a thing for you.
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I was wondering if this is similar when your an infantry officer?
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When first applying, the WO who interviewed me said "other ranks have more fun" and that as a YO I could look forward to 4 years of being the office b*text deleted**h, doing the paperwork that no adjutant or major wanted to do, and then by the time I'm promoted, I'd no longer be a field officer and I'd be stuck behind a desk for the rest of my career. The more time I'd spend as an officer, the further and further I'd get from the field, doing hands on soldiering. I brushed it off at the time *text deleted* I thought he was joking. Correct me if I have this wrong, but there's no way in hell I'd go through RT + 32 more weeks of training only to become a glorified office clerk, no matter how fancy and important my work was.
I was wondering if this is similar when your an infantry officer?