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08-02-05, 11:18 AM

Came within a whisker of joining the Signals...

passed everything right upto finally signing the form and then they discovered a question which should've been asked in my first interview hadn't been asked so couldn't join up due to having too much debt...

6 months of sorting everything out wasted.... looking back tho i'm sort of glad I didn't join

08-02-05, 11:43 AM

All this talk of joining gladdens my heart, we had no choice, well sort of. Leave the country, sign on as a CO and spend 4 years in jail with all the weight lifting Jehovah's witnesses. Or go and get the first 2 years over with.

The first morning was surreal. Dawn at a place called Sturrock park. My old man dropped me off on his way to work.
"Dinnae take any ****e fae thae dutchies laddie"
"Aye fair enough"
A nod and a quick handshake and I was out the car.
There was a bit of a walk to the registration area and the whole way I was surrounded by famillies seeing their sons off.
Mothers wailing, fathers carrying the suitcases for them. You'd have thought they were dead already with this carry on.

We had our bags searched for drugs by the MPs and their dogs.
Loaded on the troop train for the 3 day trip to Walvis Bay. Must have been the milk run coz that's only a 24 hour drive by car.

08-02-05, 11:48 AM

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Originally Posted by splke

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Originally Posted by Patch

Former Military Policeman.

No surprise there then...SIB by any chance

08-02-05, 01:10 PM

SIB?

08-02-05, 01:13 PM

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Originally Posted by burner

SIB?

Special Investigations Branch.

08-02-05, 01:23 PM

I passed all interviews etc and was ready to go, when my employer at the time gave me a pay rise to stay. Just as well really as I would have come out of training just as Maggie T declared war with Argentina.

08-02-05, 03:56 PM

14 years in the SAS (Saturday and Sunday) soldiers, always home in time for tea and medals (except for our 200 blokes who went to play in the sandpit for 6 months! (Wish I had been invited

).

08-02-05, 04:25 PM

I was a Girl Guide for one evening (first time), but I thought it was rubbish so didn't go back.... EVER.

When I was stupid I wanted to be a fighter pilot 'til they told me women weren't allowed to fly in the front line, so the forces were forever excluded from my choice of career out of spite. :P

08-02-05, 05:06 PM

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Originally Posted by Aurora

Ex pad brat, lived most of my childhood in Germany. Almost joined up myself but chickened out at the last minute.

Same for me fortunatly or unfortunatly my carears officer at school arsed up my joining date for the RAF so I had to look else where for beer tokens.

08-02-05, 05:08 PM

Would you like to be part of my 'World Police'. Generous perks.

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08-02-05, 11:18 AM	#31
Iansv Guest Posts: n/a	Came within a whisker of joining the Signals... passed everything right upto finally signing the form and then they discovered a question which should've been asked in my first interview hadn't been asked so couldn't join up due to having too much debt... 6 months of sorting everything out wasted.... looking back tho i'm sort of glad I didn't join

08-02-05, 11:43 AM	#32
BURNER Guest Posts: n/a	All this talk of joining gladdens my heart, we had no choice, well sort of. Leave the country, sign on as a CO and spend 4 years in jail with all the weight lifting Jehovah's witnesses. Or go and get the first 2 years over with. The first morning was surreal. Dawn at a place called Sturrock park. My old man dropped me off on his way to work. "Dinnae take any ****e fae thae dutchies laddie" "Aye fair enough" A nod and a quick handshake and I was out the car. There was a bit of a walk to the registration area and the whole way I was surrounded by famillies seeing their sons off. Mothers wailing, fathers carrying the suitcases for them. You'd have thought they were dead already with this carry on. We had our bags searched for drugs by the MPs and their dogs. Loaded on the troop train for the 3 day trip to Walvis Bay. Must have been the milk run coz that's only a 24 hour drive by car.

08-02-05, 01:23 PM	#36
Mogs Guest Posts: n/a	I passed all interviews etc and was ready to go, when my employer at the time gave me a pay rise to stay. Just as well really as I would have come out of training just as Maggie T declared war with Argentina.

08-02-05, 03:56 PM	#37
Roo Guest Posts: n/a	14 years in the SAS (Saturday and Sunday) soldiers, always home in time for tea and medals (except for our 200 blokes who went to play in the sandpit for 6 months! (Wish I had been invited ).

08-02-05, 04:25 PM	#38
Ping Guest Posts: n/a	I was a Girl Guide for one evening (first time), but I thought it was rubbish so didn't go back.... EVER. When I was stupid I wanted to be a fighter pilot 'til they told me women weren't allowed to fly in the front line, so the forces were forever excluded from my choice of career out of spite. :P

08-02-05, 05:08 PM	#40
Grinch Guest Posts: n/a	Would you like to be part of my 'World Police'. Generous perks. http://forums.sv650.org/viewtopic.ph...186&highlight=