Career change

[waitey]

After much thought over the past few months I'm taking the plunge.

On Wednesday I'm visiting my local AFCO(armed forces careers office) and going to start the application to join the army in the REME as an armourer.

I know they'll try push me into infantry again but I am willing to be on a waiting list for quite awhile.

 

[LCplParks]

Yyeeeaaaahhh you won't regret the decision if you do! The army is awesome!

 

[the_notorious_C_A_T]

Messing about with guns all day, would be living the dream for me lol

 

[LCplParks]

What armourers do is look after the weapons by cleaning and fixing them I used to be pretty good mates with the last bloke who was posted here as the armourer and he seemed to enjoy his job the best bit about it is that you can really see the world because techincally anywhere we have troops we have weapons and you'll be able to go there to look after them nice 3 years in Cyprus or gibraltr would be pretty mint

 

[singlespeed]

Stick to your guns with your choice of trade :lol:

If theres slots to fill on an entry thats going to be starting soon and you meet the entry criteria, they will try to fill them

 

[Rob_McLav]

Go submariner, u get to play with the guns on occasions and the pays better

 

[LCplParks]

Or go linguist like me and get posted onto a sub and get paid even more than that

 

[waitey]

Or go linguist like me and get posted onto a sub and get paid even more than that

I told you I went for that last but got turned down for having German family! :lol:

 

[LCplParks]

Oh yeah I remember now ! Haha my bad

 

[Kelly_GT]

Go for it always wanted to go in to the Armed Forces x

 

[Martin_172]

good luck!

ive got a load of friends in the navy, although as they say they get loads more money for not getting shot at lol

 

[singlespeed]

good luck!

ive got a load of friends in the navy, although as they say they get loads more money for not getting shot at lol

Quite right. The bravery of (hopefully) being out of range

Although any of the services could equaly be detatched to somewhere nasty. My Mrs did a tour in Basra with the Engineers, which was a change to the Engine bay rebuilding and testing jet engines

 

[jra3d]

Ah nicely done fella good luck

 

[JE_GT]

Nice one, my dad was a REME Commando for a full career

 

[lgonzalez]

Good luck dude I come from an Army background although chose not to follow that path myself, if I was single might have been a very different story! Dad was RE for 20 odd years finishing uo as WO1, Step Mum was RLC and my big brother is still serving as a LCpl Port Op in the RLC.