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Training for ARW Selection
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01-11-2008 7:17pm#1
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djtechnics1210 wrote: »If i get it steyr, it'll be me,you, eroo, iceage and the lovely clada on the beer for the week,,, paid for by me..... its the least i could do..... i hope clada comes out though
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get some weight on your back and start running, running with weight improves your running without it ten fold, when i trained for selection i used to put the golden pages, the independent directory, the argos catalogue and a couple of other books wrapped in a towel into a bag and do laps of a cross country track in the phoenix park, that was also in combats with a full CEFO on too, progress as pain-stakingly slow but it does work.
do loads of hill sprints too, can also be done at the magazine(building on top of hill) in the park too.
also do weights and swimming,
theres a ARW training program knocking around,i think its a 9 week one, some of your old PDF mates might be able to get a copy from the mad into it lads
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theres a ARW training program knocking around,i think its a 9 week one, some of your old PDF mates might be able to get a copy from the mad into it lads
Thanks, thats why I recommended the OP post here.
I seem to remembered seeing that too, but try as I might I couldn't find it. I'm sure it was published in An Cosantoir prior to an ARW selection course about two years ago.0 -
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LOL I was trying to think of how to ask Cherrypicker politely was he taking the p*ss, but I couldn't, so Cherrypicker, are you taking the p*ss?
QUOTE: the simply reality is Ranger Wing selection is as demanding as permitted due to the small pool of candidates, passive/neutral nature of the state, poor fitness ethos in the PDF, PDF being unionised/politicaly correct, etc. I seriously think if an Irish army soldier/recruit got beasted, ie exercised till serious exhaustion as a punishment there is a good chance the army/govt would get sued, this culture exists throughtout the PDF. QUOTE.
QUOTE:Such a situation would not be tolerated in the PDF or Ireland due to its anti military stance,QUOTE.
Thats twice you've knocked the lads in the PDF once for poor fitness, I take it your second was in referance to Irelands Nuetrality stance? Take cover mate...LOL 0 -
LOL I was trying to think of how to ask Cherrypicker politely was he taking the p*ss, but I couldn't, so Cherrypicker, are you taking the p*ss?
QUOTE: the simply reality is Ranger Wing selection is as demanding as permitted due to the small pool of candidates, passive/neutral nature of the state, poor fitness ethos in the PDF, PDF being unionised/politicaly correct, etc. I seriously think if an Irish army soldier/recruit got beasted, ie exercised till serious exhaustion as a punishment there is a good chance the army/govt would get sued, this culture exists throughtout the PDF. QUOTE.
QUOTE:Such a situation would not be tolerated in the PDF or Ireland due to its anti military stance,QUOTE.
Thats twice you've knocked the lads in the PDF once for poor fitness, I take it your second was in referance to Irelands Nuetrality stance? Take cover mate...LOL
Im not knocking the PDF, it does its role well, ie internal security of the state and UN peacekeeping well, it has no reason to maintain troops in a state of constant and short notice battle threatre preparedness(bar the Wing), this is not its role.
I think the compensation culture and job for life attitude do it no favours as a professional force. I think it should develop a more competitive ethos, which in recent years has got slightly better.
Officers and NCOs should have to justify their positions, through constant training programmes, fat career soldiers should be booted out, something wrong when fit enthusiastic 19 yr olds get turned away and some career soldiers get put on fat fighting drugs, (whats wrong with PT ?).
Problem is due to its parochial and political symbolism, no govt would dare trim the fat, cut its size, give it more gear, ie the ability to operate 1 mechanised infantry batallion with working vehicles, supported by a few troop carrying choppers, modern digital artillery and a half decent air defence capibility, supported by RDF who directly deploy within the PDF and who reach a professional standard,instead 85 % of the budget goes on wages and pensions, due to the fact in the past it was massively too big.
Instead its like the civil service, everyone rubs along nicely, looking forward to a nice pension.0 -
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