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Going to Sandhurst

  • 06-01-2010 4:06pm
    #1
    JonnyF
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 370 ✭✭


    Can anyone shed some light on this? I'm 24 and back when I was 18 I came within a whisker of joining the RAF but when I learned that I was above the height restriction for flying anything other than choppers I pulled out. I've still always had an interest in doing some time in the military and ideally would aim for a cadetship over anything else.
    Could I join the Irish Guards and go on to Sandhurst or do you apply for Officer Cadet and then request the regiment you're sent to following completion of training? Am I too old for Cadet training? I know I could call them up directly but I'd like to have some idea before I do so they don't think I'm a time waster


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  • #2
    johnny_doyle
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,021 ✭✭✭johnny_doyle


    BA Eligibility
    http://www.armyjobs.mod.uk/howdoijoin/canijoin/Pages/EntryRequirements.aspx

    BA Officer Selection and Training - check the video on the right hand side
    http://www.armyjobs.mod.uk/howdoijoin/application/Pages/default.aspx

    can't comment on the Irish Guards (other than why would you want to join a unit which makes you wear a beret that looks like a cow pat). Links below may help

    http://www.army.mod.uk/infantry/regiments/3482.aspx

    http://www.army.mod.uk/infantry/regiments/9593.aspx


  • #3
    OS119
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,518 ✭✭✭OS119


    the Army is at 100% manning and the recruiting offices are full of excellent candidates - you've got to be bloody good, and exactly what each regiment is looking for to have a whiff of a chance of commissioning, particularly in any 'fashionable' regiment. unfortunately for you your age, and the fact that you'd need to go through the hassle of 'long-distance' vetting, means that you aren't going to be the most attractive candidate on paper.

    apply, go for a few fam visits, but i'll be honest and say that no regiments' recruiting teams are going to leap out at you - you're 2 or 3 years older than they'd like, and its more hassle to recruit you than the guy from Surrey, or Northumberland, who goes in after you...

    sorry.


  • #4
    piby
    Closed Accounts Posts: 539 ✭✭✭piby


    JonnyF wrote: »
    Can anyone shed some light on this? I'm 24 and back when I was 18 I came within a whisker of joining the RAF but when I learned that I was above the height restriction for flying anything other than choppers I pulled out. I've still always had an interest in doing some time in the military and ideally would aim for a cadetship over anything else.
    Could I join the Irish Guards and go on to Sandhurst or do you apply for Officer Cadet and then request the regiment you're sent to following completion of training? Am I too old for Cadet training? I know I could call them up directly but I'd like to have some idea before I do so they don't think I'm a time waster

    The way it works is that you get a particular regiment to sponsor you to go to Sandhurst. So what most PO's do is go on familirisation visits to different regiments or Corps. The purpose of this is so you can see what life is like for yourself and also whether you both you and the regiment feel you could fit in. You may have your heart set on the Irish Guards but then realise you're more at home with the Royal Gurkha Rifles or the artillery or the engineers etc!! However, once you're through the gates that sponsorship becomes less important and if you change your mind or the regiment changes theirs then you simply look for another regiment. Some regiments are more popular than others ie. infantry compared to say the Royal Logistics Core so a lot of it comes down how you do on the commissioning course/interview with CO of regiment etc.

    24 isn't to old (28/29 being the limit AFAIK) although unofficially infantry regiments don't want their YO's being older than 23/24 coming out of Sandbags. It doesn't mean that they won't take older guys, because they often do, it's just that they prefer the younger lads. I say this bearing in mind that the CC is 11 months and application can take roughly a year so you'd be 26 or thereabouts when you commisssion assuming you applied straight away.

    Finally I'd just say look at the BA and Army Jobs websites. They'll give you all the information you need to begin with. Another very useful resource is http://www.arrse.co.uk/. That's an online forum and the blokes on that will give you a lot of sound 'what you can't get officially' advice!!


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