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Interested in the Army
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08-01-2007 10:02pm#1
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Yeah the RDF is a great start if you want to sample what the basics of the Army is about. I joined when I was still in school and I was a year underage....and I saw plenty of borderline Dwarves in the ranks!
With the RDF you talking about maybe turning up one night a week and a few weekends away a year and an annual camp in the summer.
With the PDF/Army as soon as you pass the fitness tests and interview and recieve notice that you've been accepted you hit the ground running.
Depending from where you're from is where you'll train. According to your info you're from Dublin so you'll more than likely do recruit training in Gormonston Camp in Meath or in Cathal Brugha Barracks, Rathmines.
You'll do a 2 week induction period where you'll be brought for lectures and brought to Museums and told the background of what you're getting into. You'll also be told your rights within the DF and what to expect in the future.
Recruit training is intensive so keeping up your fitness prior to joining will pay off from the start. Recruit training is 3 months long and your advanced 3 star training will take another 3 months. Monday to Friday you will be confined to barracks but you should recieve Local Leave most weekends, but do expect to be confined to barracks some weekends.
Your tactical training phase will be spent in the general Wicklow Mountains area, and is great fun if you are the kind of person who likes being wet,cold,dirty,hungry,tired, bit by insects, in the dark and shouted at.
When you sign up you sign for a 5 year contract and then are given the option of re-engaging your service after this period. IMO anyone looking to join the Army should be doing so with a career in mind and not just pack it all in after 5 years.
That first 5 years will be over before you know and some people when they reach there realise 'Damn if I'd have gone to college I'd be finished by now' so it is a major decision to make.
Although you can buy yourself out at any stage you want during your contract just make sure you have a job to go into.
The Army is a life changing event. It will give you an entirely different outlook on life.
But even if you do decide to join up and not go to college, my original advice stands. Have a blast the first year after you leave school (and yes you could be in the RDF during this time)
Serving your country is the ultimate sacrifice you can make and the Army will teach you to become a highly disciplined member of society...
...but apart from all that tripe they pay you to play with guns and blow **** up! it roxx man!!
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Hard Larry wrote:Yeah the RDF is a great start if you want to sample what the basics of the Army is about. I joined when I was still in school and I was a year underage....and I saw plenty of borderline Dwarves in the ranks!
With the RDF you talking about maybe turning up one night a week and a few weekends away a year and an annual camp in the summer.
With the PDF/Army as soon as you pass the fitness tests and interview and recieve notice that you've been accepted you hit the ground running.
Depending from where you're from is where you'll train. According to your info you're from Dublin so you'll more than likely do recruit training in Gormonston Camp in Meath or in Cathal Brugha Barracks, Rathmines.
You'll do a 2 week induction period where you'll be brought for lectures and brought to Museums and told the background of what you're getting into. You'll also be told your rights within the DF and what to expect in the future.
Recruit training is intensive so keeping up your fitness prior to joining will pay off from the start. Recruit training is 3 months long and your advanced 3 star training will take another 3 months. Monday to Friday you will be confined to barracks but you should recieve Local Leave most weekends, but do expect to be confined to barracks some weekends.
Your tactical training phase will be spent in the general Wicklow Mountains area, and is great fun if you are the kind of person who likes being wet,cold,dirty,hungry,tired, bit by insects, in the dark and shouted at.
When you sign up you sign for a 5 year contract and then are given the option of re-engaging your service after this period. IMO anyone looking to join the Army should be doing so with a career in mind and not just pack it all in after 5 years.
That first 5 years will be over before you know and some people when they reach there realise 'Damn if I'd have gone to college I'd be finished by now' so it is a major decision to make.
Although you can buy yourself out at any stage you want during your contract just make sure you have a job to go into.
The Army is a life changing event. It will give you an entirely different outlook on life.
But even if you do decide to join up and not go to college, my original advice stands. Have a blast the first year after you leave school (and yes you could be in the RDF during this time)
Serving your country is the ultimate sacrifice you can make and the Army will teach you to become a highly disciplined member of society...
...but apart from all that tripe they pay you to play with guns and blow **** up! it roxx man!!
Thanks, the army sounds great! I know it'll be tough but to be honest, I need to toughen up. I'll probably cry as soon as anyone looks at me let alone shouts at me but I'd say I'd be suited to it (I've been told I would).
As for careers, I'm in 4th year at the moment and seeing as nothing else is going on, the only thing I hear from teachers is about career choices. I'm definitely going to college whether I like it or not (I would like to go to college if I could take a year out or do some travelling or do an interesting work experience etc. but no...) but I haven't a clue what course I would like to do. What sort of careers are there in the army that I would need a college course in? I'm not the physics type, so Engineering is a no-no although I think I'd be interested in it. I know there's the Medical side to it...emmm....Medicine and Engineering seems to be it!
I still can't believe you get paid for serving your country! I suppose you have to be supported financially if your in the army long term. But for the PDF you basically live in the barracks - only getting home for some weekends. Still...getting paid would be nice! Does that go for the RDF as well?
I take it there's a seperate camp for women and men? (Unfortunately...hee hee). I know this is a huge sweeping generalization but what are the women like in the army? I don't want to be stuck bunking with a big beast of a man who only joins the army to be a big tough guy. Don't get me wrong, I'm not the girliest of girls but I'm not a big man either!
Anyway, I think joining even just the reserves would give me a good chance to get fit and disciplined while having fun as well (and getting paid?!!) and hopefully it'd be a chance to get gto know some new people - women and men (hopefully
) so it seems to be win-win!babybundy wrote:i still get paid and feed so i dont care
What's the food like? hehe0 -
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