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Many Irish in the British Army...

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  • #62
    Gingernuts31
    Registered Users Posts: 374 ✭✭Gingernuts31


    Donny5 wrote: »
    Yeah, they take care of administration, and load of other services support.

    Ah right, you couldn't shed any light on the pay rates on page 1 could you?


  • #63
    Donny5
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,827 ✭✭✭Donny5


    Gingernuts31 wrote: »
    Ah right, you couldn't shed any light on the pay rates on page 1 could you?

    Sorry, can't help you there.


  • #64
    Gingernuts31
    Registered Users Posts: 374 ✭✭Gingernuts31


    Donny5 wrote: »
    Sorry, can't help you there.


    No bother cheers.


  • #65
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭tac foley


    Gingernuts31 wrote: »
    AGC? Army ground crew (air corps)? I know it will be difficult to see my wife at times and il explain it to her if im accepted. She will understand im sure. The fact that we have been living apart for so long now will help alot I think. I know what you mean about anyone going forward. I put my application through online and heard nothing then today I got another one through the post with a BARD test booklet and other paperwork. Sent back the application today but didn't put army air corps on it :mad: which was a role I had on my online application. I mention it to them after the BARB tests and see what they think :). Im saying Army ground crew in the hopes to get into Air crew at some stage :).

    AGC = Adjutant General's Corps

    AAC - Army Air Corps

    One or the other - you can't do both.

    tac


  • #66
    Gingernuts31
    Registered Users Posts: 374 ✭✭Gingernuts31


    tac foley wrote: »
    AGC = Adjutant General's Corps

    AAC - Army Air Corps

    One or the other - you can't do both.

    tac

    No don't want to be in AGC thats for sure. Either Paras, RIR or AAC. The AAC would be great because I love aircraft, even just being around it gives me a buzz.


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  • #67
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭tac foley


    You love aircraft, and you want to be around helicopters?

    A REAL aircraft has wings, and given enough speed, WANTS to fly.

    A helicopter is a triumph of technology over common sense, and without that engine screaming its head off and turning the whirly thing on top of the fuselage, sure as hell doesn't want to fly anywhere.

    In a REAL airplane, stop the engine, and it will fly, albeit downwards, at a nice safe angle....the glide angle. :)

    In a helicopter, stop the engine and will tend to fly vertically downwards, with a very slight angle from the still-rotating rotor - IF you still have a rotor, that is. Without it, a helicopter flies like a cross-channel ferryboat. Without the teeny one at the back, it will rotate itself into a messy oblivion in a very few seconds. :O

    If it's airplanes you want to hang around - go join the RAF. ;=)

    tac


  • #68
    OS119
    Registered Users Posts: 2,518 ✭✭✭OS119


    tac foley wrote: »
    If it's effeminate, ill-mannered men in grey slip-ons you want to hang around - go join the RAF. ;=)...

    FYP.

    :D


  • #69
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭tac foley


    OS119 wrote: »
    FYP.

    :D

    In WW1 Micky Mannock would have argued that point with you, as would the other thirty-seven of the Royal Flying Corps’ top ‘fighter aces’ who were Irish.

    In WW2 Paddy Finucane would have taken that unkindly.

    tac


  • #70
    cruasder777
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭cruasder777


    Gingernuts31 wrote: »
    No don't want to be in AGC thats for sure. Either Paras, RIR or AAC. The AAC would be great because I love aircraft, even just being around it gives me a buzz.


    Check out the RAF regiment then, they are considered along with the Paras and the RMs as one of the elite 3.

    Training is alot harder then normal infantry, the also have a Para unit, in the 80s in British army comps they used to often come second to the Paras in various events.

    Their standards are alot higher then ordinary infantry, they also supply the special forces support group along with the Paras and RMs.

    In Afghanistan they also do long and short range desert patrols, in a bde recon force role.



    "The RAF Regiment is a specialist infantry unit which protects the RAF, its aircraft and bases.

    A tough force trained to the peak of physical fitness and endurance, they parachute into enemy territory, secure airfields and are amongst the first forces into battle."



    Read More http://www.birminghammail.net/news/birmingham-news/2008/08/28/chance-to-discover-little-known-raf-regiment-97319-21626177/#ixzz1phV7LXt3



    Heres the week by week training scheduled.

    As you can see, its alot more demanding then that done by standard infantry, if you train as a jtec you can serve in army units calling in air strikes on the ground when out on patrol etc. If you want to serve in their Para unit, you do the RAF version of P company, this is the version non Para SAS candidates did in the past.


    http://www.raf.mod.uk/careers/jobs/gunners_training.cfm


    But you better like drill, their drill is of the highest standard in the UK armed forces even beyond that of the Guards.


  • #71
    cruasder777
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭cruasder777


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wKpnLGv82jc&feature=related


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  • #72
    OS119
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    cruasder777 wrote: »
    ...Check out the RAF regiment then, they are considered along with the Paras and the RMs as one of the elite 3....

    and so he blows his cover.

    RAF Regiment, 'big 3' my fcuking hoop. known to everyone in Afghanistan - rather derisively - as the 'Short Range Desert Group'. they have a role, and they do it well - unfortunately they (or more accurately, the sad fcukkers who make up their fan club) destroy the credibility they gain by making laughable, ridiculous claims about them being 'big 3' with PARA and RM. they are not.

    they do not form the BRF. they do not undertake deep, long range patrols beyond the FEBA. they do drive around Bastion and Kanahar in WMIKS with 'tour beards' and filthy shamaghs - even though they live on base and have access to a daily shower - and they try very, very hard to look like a certain WW2 unit that had beards and drove around the desert in machine-gun festooned Jeeps. an activity considered deeply, deeply pathetic by everyone else at Bastion and Kandahar - especially the rest of the grey slip-on wearing RAF.

    by all means consider a career in the RAF Regiment, but don't do so believing all this rubbish, because you'll be sorely disapointed.


  • #73
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭tac foley


    'Become a legend in your own imagination - and join the RAF Regiment!'

    That aside - you just have to admit that any organisation that uses 98% of its manpower to permit the other 2% to play airplanes and drop bombs and play with the most expensive computer simulation games on earth - effectively sending the rodneys off to do the unpleasant fight-y stuff and 'quitting the surly bonds of earth', can't be THAT daft.

    However, apart from the general mongness/wah of the RAF Regiment - held in general lack of awe by even the Adjustant General's Corps, there is another branch of the RAF held in even less regard.

    The Royal Air Force Police.

    In general, it has to be admitted that the Royal Air Force Police are brave, nay, almost fearless, utterly loyal and faithful unto death, and both imaginative and innovative at their job - as has been shown many times over the years.

    It's the humans on the other end of their leash that are the problem for most folks.

    tac


  • #74
    cruasder777
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭cruasder777


    OS119 wrote: »
    and so he blows his cover.

    RAF Regiment, 'big 3' my fcuking hoop. known to everyone in Afghanistan - rather derisively - as the 'Short Range Desert Group'. they have a role, and they do it well - unfortunately they (or more accurately, the sad fcukkers who make up their fan club) destroy the credibility they gain by making laughable, ridiculous claims about them being 'big 3' with PARA and RM. they are not.

    they do not form the BRF. they do not undertake deep, long range patrols beyond the FEBA. they do drive around Bastion and Kanahar in WMIKS with 'tour beards' and filthy shamaghs - even though they live on base and have access to a daily shower - and they try very, very hard to look like a certain WW2 unit that had beards and drove around the desert in machine-gun festooned Jeeps. an activity considered deeply, deeply pathetic by everyone else at Bastion and Kandahar - especially the rest of the grey slip-on wearing RAF.

    by all means consider a career in the RAF Regiment, but don't do so believing all this rubbish, because you'll be sorely disapointed.


    So tell me why RAF reg are allowed to serve in the Special Forces support group then? If so crap ?


    What you are typing is absolute nonsense, the RAF regiment have a far more diverse role then army infantry. The RAF reg sniper team recently came first at Bisley.


    http://www.raf.mod.uk/newsweather/index.cfm?storyid=5B9B5C07-1143-EC82-2E153B171A334FC4


    Flying with RAF Merlin and Lynx crews, the heavily armed heli-snipers can be mobilised at short notice to locate and eliminate enemy positions, reducing the threat to Army ground troops and medical units on the ground.

    So far the heli-snipers have been deployed to give force protection for Lynx immediate response teams, scrambled to evacuate casualties, fire support for deliberate operations, rapid route clearance for convoys, and to counter the threat from militia preparing crude explosive devices.

    Using IRT for the role gives the heli-snipers the ability to respond quickly. Travelling by air also gives them an improved field of vision, allowing them to relay vital surveillance to commanders on the ground
    Each field squadron within the RAF Regiment has a section of sniper-qualified riflemen who provide the surveillance and target acquisition capability for the squadron.





    .......The RAF reg is the ideal unit for the previous poster. The RAF reg are responsible for an area of 400sq km around Bastion and Kandahar.


  • #75
    Gingernuts31
    Registered Users Posts: 374 ✭✭Gingernuts31


    One thing has caught my eye about the RAF. I know you have to be fit for Gunner and all but why is the fitness test not as difficult as the army fitness test. You need to do 50 press ups in 2 mins and 50 sit ups in 2 mins 1.5 mile run in 12.45 for regular infantry and 9.40 for para's. You only need to do 20 push ups and 30 sit ups for RAF Gunner, and run the 1.5 mile in 10.30. Why such a big difference? As it stands now I can do the RAF fitness test but struggling a bit with the Paras. If the fitness is so tough why is it not as difficult for entry to RIR or Para's? Not talking you down just wondering like.


  • #76
    OS119
    Registered Users Posts: 2,518 ✭✭✭OS119


    cruasder777 wrote: »
    ...So tell me why RAF reg are allowed to serve in the Special Forces support group then? If so crap ?...

    theres REME in the SFSG, theres RA in the SFSG, theres the fecking pet corps in the SFSG - theres even a need for 'Combat HR' (i kid you not...) in the SFSG. i'm not surprised theres RAF Regiment in the SFSG - after all, even 'they' have barriers to man...

    change your knickers and dry your eyes - the RAF Regiment are not supermen, they are specialised (?) light role infantry than can do a decent job but are let down by their walty image/persona that they create/allow to make up for the fact that an awful lot of what they do is teach techies how to use a gas mask for two days a year.

    it could be decent job - decent housing, the '9-5' is pretty easy, those WRAF's who aren't lesbians will think you're well impressive, in expeditionary wafare the role can be quite interesting with quite a bit of travel and the RAF ensures you get decent kit - but thats not enough, the saddo's have to spoil it with this 'big 3' crap and proceed to make themselves a laughing stock.


  • #77
    Gingernuts31
    Registered Users Posts: 374 ✭✭Gingernuts31


    RAF is out for me anyway. You can be an Irish citizen to join but you must have been living in the uk for no less than 3 years. If its been less than 3 years there is other criteria. I have never lived in the UK so thats that career gone anyway. Ah well Hopefully il get initial interview and BARB tests within next few weeks all going well :) . I did my 50 push-ups today for the 1st time, I believe you can stop to take a breather but you must either stop with arms strectched out and knees not touching the ground or you lay flat on your stomach. You can kneel up for the breather is that right?


  • #78
    cruasder777
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭cruasder777


    Gingernuts31 wrote: »
    RAF is out for me anyway. You can be an Irish citizen to join but you must have been living in the uk for no less than 3 years. If its been less than 3 years there is other criteria. I have never lived in the UK so thats that career gone anyway. Ah well Hopefully il get initial interview and BARB tests within next few weeks all going well :) . I did my 50 push-ups today for the 1st time, I believe you can stop to take a breather but you must either stop with arms strectched out and knees not touching the ground or you lay flat on your stomach. You can kneel up for the breather is that right?


    You can join the RAF regiment if a citizen of the Irish republic.

    Dont join the Royal Irish, you will find yourself in a support role for the Paras, in Afghanistan training the national army that kind of stuff, while they are off getting the glory.

    Heres a good video on the role of the RAF regiment.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x68QxBUiIAw&feature=player_embedded

    "world leaders in air minded soldiering"


  • #79
    cruasder777
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭cruasder777


    OS119 wrote: »
    theres REME in the SFSG, theres RA in the SFSG, theres the fecking pet corps in the SFSG - theres even a need for 'Combat HR' (i kid you not...) in the SFSG. i'm not surprised theres RAF Regiment in the SFSG - after all, even 'they' have barriers to man...

    change your knickers and dry your eyes - the RAF Regiment are not supermen, they are specialised (?) light role infantry than can do a decent job but are let down by their walty image/persona that they create/allow to make up for the fact that an awful lot of what they do is teach techies how to use a gas mask for two days a year.

    it could be decent job - decent housing, the '9-5' is pretty easy, those WRAF's who aren't lesbians will think you're well impressive, in expeditionary wafare the role can be quite interesting with quite a bit of travel and the RAF ensures you get decent kit - but thats not enough, the saddo's have to spoil it with this 'big 3' crap and proceed to make themselves a laughing stock.


    The RAF Reg role in the SFSG is as Jtac's(air strike co-ordinators, heli snipers, that kind of stuff). Certainly not holding up barriers.

    The RAF regiment role is alot more intresting then army infantry. Every thing from combat search and rescue to joing their Para unit or sniper units to being a fwd air controller.

    27 Sqn makes up a large part of the UKs biological, chemical and nuclear regiment.
    http://www.eliteukforces.info/raf-regiment/

    No one said they were superman, but the army claims about them are bs.

    For a start you have to score more highly on the barb test to become a recruit and basic training is alot more demanding.


  • #80
    Gingernuts31
    Registered Users Posts: 374 ✭✭Gingernuts31


    cruasder777 wrote: »
    You can join the RAF regiment if a citizen of the Irish republic.

    Dont join the Royal Irish, you will find yourself in a support role for the Paras, in Afghanistan training the national army that kind of stuff, while they are off getting the glory.

    http://www.raf.mod.uk/careers/canijoin/nationalityandresidency.cfm

    You cann apply if you are an Irish Citizen yes but don't see anything here about being able to apply if you live in the ROI?


  • #81
    cruasder777
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭cruasder777


    Gingernuts31 wrote: »
    http://www.raf.mod.uk/careers/canijoin/nationalityandresidency.cfm

    You cann apply if you are an Irish Citizen yes but don't see anything here about being able to apply if you live in the ROI?


    The best thing you can do is e mail or call them to clarify.


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  • #82
    discus
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    cruasder777 wrote: »
    The RAF Reg role in the SFSG is as Jtac's(air strike co-ordinators, heli snipers, that kind of stuff). Certainly not holding up barriers.

    The RAF regiment role is alot more intresting then army infantry. Every thing from combat search and rescue to joing their Para unit or sniper units to being a fwd air controller.

    27 Sqn makes up a large part of the UKs biological, chemical and nuclear regiment.
    http://www.eliteukforces.info/raf-regiment/

    No one said they were superman, but the army claims about them are bs.

    For a start you have to score more highly on the barb test to become a recruit and basic training is alot more demanding.

    HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    The RAF reg donate frig all to the SFSG, and whatever it is, it isn't JTAC or 'heli-sniper'. The only heli snipers I've met have been Royal Marines, you know, actual combat soldiers.

    Basic training for the RAF Reg is ****ing dogshit. I've met guys who've passed out recently, and they were embarrassed when I couldn't shake hands cause of frostbite from a 5 day ex. Their only ex in basic was a 1 nighter and it was spent in a hanger - this was in october ffs. They admitted that their fitness wasn't up to scratch but we all agreed that that was due to the more demanding army service requiring blokes to be better physically.

    Someone put it right in an earlier post - the CBRN annuals cover most of the work that 27 deliver. Then they act hard-as-****ing-nails by talking about their 90 mile stretcher carry in full IPE and respirator in front of the females on the course, in the hope of getting their dicks wet.
    but thats not enough, the saddo's have to spoil it with this 'big 3' crap and proceed to make themselves a laughing stock.

    Yeah, it's utterly embarrassing. Look at the amount of guys in Afghan doing foot patrol, risking limbs and life, whilst the conker-balls of RAF Regt take pictures of themselves in ridiculous webbing laodouts for their facebook page under a sanger in Bastion. Empty vessels and all that.


  • #83
    tac foley
    Registered Users Posts: 5,504 ✭✭✭tac foley


    Gingernuts31 wrote: »
    One thing has caught my eye about the RAF. I know you have to be fit for Gunner and all but why is the fitness test not as difficult as the army fitness test. You need to do 50 press ups in 2 mins and 50 sit ups in 2 mins 1.5 mile run in 12.45 for regular infantry and 9.40 for para's. You only need to do 20 push ups and 30 sit ups for RAF Gunner, and run the 1.5 mile in 10.30. Why such a big difference? As it stands now I can do the RAF fitness test but struggling a bit with the Paras. If the fitness is so tough why is it not as difficult for entry to RIR or Para's? Not talking you down just wondering like.

    The RAF Regiment is rightly famed for its ability to cause HUGE piles of tortoises [NAAFI steak and kidney pies] to vanish within seconds of the crew-room doors being opened - a bit like the January sales at Harrods, but with uniforms on.

    Hence the need to be [at first] remarkably fit to fend off your fellow Gunners and some of the ordinary British Toms.

    We've all heard of the unofficial motto of the RAF Regiment 'Death from the Pies!'

    tac


  • #84
    Lemming
    Registered Users Posts: 14,148 ✭✭✭✭Lemming


    Gingernuts31 wrote: »
    9.40 for para's

    OT I know, but is it not 9:18 minimum to qualify for the paras?


  • #85
    cruasder777
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭cruasder777


    discus wrote: »
    HAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

    The RAF reg donate frig all to the SFSG, and whatever it is, it isn't JTAC or 'heli-sniper'. The only heli snipers I've met have been Royal Marines, you know, actual combat soldiers.

    Basic training for the RAF Reg is ****ing dogshit. I've met guys who've passed out recently, and they were embarrassed when I couldn't shake hands cause of frostbite from a 5 day ex. Their only ex in basic was a 1 nighter and it was spent in a hanger - this was in october ffs. They admitted that their fitness wasn't up to scratch but we all agreed that that was due to the more demanding army service requiring blokes to be better physically.

    Someone put it right in an earlier post - the CBRN annuals cover most of the work that 27 deliver. Then they act hard-as-****ing-nails by talking about their 90 mile stretcher carry in full IPE and respirator in front of the females on the course, in the hope of getting their dicks wet.



    Yeah, it's utterly embarrassing. Look at the amount of guys in Afghan doing foot patrol, risking limbs and life, whilst the conker-balls of RAF Regt take pictures of themselves in ridiculous webbing laodouts for their facebook page under a sanger in Bastion. Empty vessels and all that.

    The RAF regiment have lost airmen in Afghanistan, only a walt or craphat would try to take the p.... about them not seeing combat, thats more bs.

    Is this not a foot patrol ?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FCUgDi3u3Qw


    So the RAF are lying then about heli snipers ? The RAF reg have the best sniper units in UKs armed forces. Which was proven this yr by them winning at Bisley.

    "
    Flying with RAF Merlin and Lynx crews, the heavily armed heli-snipers can be mobilised at short notice to locate and eliminate enemy positions, reducing the threat to Army ground troops and medical units on the ground."

    http://www.raf.mod.uk/newsweather/index.cfm?storyid=5B9B5C07-1143-EC82-2E153B171A334FC4

    Basic training in the RAF reg is far more demanding than that of army infantry especially for those who do the RAFs version of P coy.

    As for not serving in the SFSG.

    .......you clearly dont know what you are on about. Around 50 members of the SFSG are from the RAF regiment.


  • #86
    cruasder777
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭cruasder777


    Lemming wrote: »
    OT I know, but is it not 9:18 minimum to qualify for the paras?


    Depends how subscribed they are, at the moment its around 9.18, which is done straight after a three mile run.


    The RAF regiment pre recruit fitness tests( Potential Gunner Acquaintance Course)consists of a shuttle run or beep test for about 10 minutes, followed by at least 10 press-ups, 25 sit-ups, and a 50-metre swim using any stroke folllowed by a three mile run that you need to complete in less than 24 minutes and gym tests. Its done over 2 days, theres alot of other stuff as well.

    Alot more demanding then the army infantry one

    RAF Regiments "p coy"

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKRtNyg4Yp0&feature=related


  • #87
    cruasder777
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭cruasder777


    Gingernuts31 wrote: »
    One thing has caught my eye about the RAF. I know you have to be fit for Gunner and all but why is the fitness test not as difficult as the army fitness test. You need to do 50 press ups in 2 mins and 50 sit ups in 2 mins 1.5 mile run in 12.45 for regular infantry and 9.40 for para's. You only need to do 20 push ups and 30 sit ups for RAF Gunner, and run the 1.5 mile in 10.30. Why such a big difference? As it stands now I can do the RAF fitness test but struggling a bit with the Paras. If the fitness is so tough why is it not as difficult for entry to RIR or Para's? Not talking you down just wondering like.


    You are mixing up the RAF one with the RAF regiment pre recruit fitness tests.For the RAF Reg Paras its the same fitness requirements as the Parachute regiment.You also have to pass the Potential Gunner Acquaintance Course.

    To do the Paras one you will need to put in 4 months of running and the gym 5 x a week(30-40mins running a day). Running morning, gym evening(circuits). Its a very high level of fitness. If you try and do it running 3 x a week and the gym 2 x a week.....you will fail. During basic training you are expect to keep improving your times, no matter how good you are.

    I do the Paras 10 ever yr, I do it in 2hrs 10, In my 20s I could do it in 1 hr 40, recruits have to do it in 1.hr 50 , an 11 min pace with lots of hills and 35lbs on your back and a weapon takes a very high level of fitness. Theres also the 20 miler up Pen y Fan in 4hrs 30 and all the other stuff to do.


  • #88
    cruasder777
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 1,332 ✭✭✭cruasder777


    RAF Regiment public order training.


    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gP7Jdf-Hkmg


  • #89
    discus
    Closed Accounts Posts: 3,049 ✭✭✭discus


    cruasder777 wrote: »
    The RAF regiment have lost airmen in Afghanistan, only a walt or craphat would try to take the p.... about them not seeing combat, thats more bs.

    .......you clearly dont know what you are on about. Around 50 members of the SFSG are from the RAF regiment.

    Ugh, craphat? Show me the maroon, and I'll let you call me that.

    ...meanwhile, at RAF regiment basic training

    fisrt-female-sumo-wrestler.jpg


  • #90
    Gingernuts31
    Registered Users Posts: 374 ✭✭Gingernuts31


    Lemming wrote: »
    OT I know, but is it not 9:18 minimum to qualify for the paras?

    Yes I didn't know there was a min only a max but its between 9.18 and 9.40. Im sure if you are like the roadrunner and got it done in under 9.18 they would be happy with that :). I can't seem to get under 10.13 :(. I know I need to sprint but im just too wrecked from it. Maybe I need to jog every eve and night and build up my speed and stamina.

    http://www.army.mod.uk/infantry/regiments/noindex/24313.aspx

    Am I right in saying a 4 mile run (no time limit) 50 press-ups, 50 sit-ups, 10 pull ups, each in no less than 2 mins? Is there a 4 mile run plus the 1.5 mile timed?:eek:


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  • #91
    cruasder777
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    Gingernuts31 wrote: »
    Yes I didn't know there was a min only a max but its between 9.18 and 9.40. Im sure if you are like the roadrunner and got it done in under 9.18 they would be happy with that :). I can't seem to get under 10.13 :(. I know I need to sprint but im just too wrecked from it. Maybe I need to jog every eve and night and build up my speed and stamina.

    http://www.army.mod.uk/infantry/regiments/noindex/24313.aspx

    Am I right in saying a 4 mile run (no time limit) 50 press-ups, 50 sit-ups, 10 pull ups, each in no less than 2 mins? Is there a 4 mile run plus the 1.5 mile timed?:eek:


    Do intervals for a month, find a football pitch do one lap slow, sprint one lap, one lap slow, sprint a lap for 12 laps, you will be hitting 9.30 in a month, if you are doing 10.13 now.

    You do a 3/4 mile squadded run at a medium pace before the 1.5 mile timed run. Which you do as a group, thus its a competive race in effect.

    If you are less then 12.5 stone, run/train as suggest in previous post for 4 months, also throw in interval runs once a week, you should not have a problem with this.


    ...Another great way to get seriously fit for those who find running every day boring is, get a punchbag, go flat ot for 3 mins, then press ups for 90 seconds, flat out on bag for 3 mins,then sit ups 90 secounds, flat out on bag for 3 minutes, then squats for 90 secounds, flat out on bag for 3 mins, pull ups for 90 seconds. etc, etc

    .....If you hate running, alternate it with the above, work towards 9 x 3 min rounds plus 90 second circuits.

    Your fitness will go through the roof.

    3 minutes skipping, then 90 seconds of press ups etc etc is also good. Alternate training, as running can get very boring.


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