The Plan

Managed to make it to work only 15 minutes late this morning and still got time to have my crunchy nut, i even have my own bowl at the pub but yeah just got back, still smelling of , well generally christmas dinner stuff, parsnips carrots turkey etc that and chips, if anyone else works in a kitchen they will know the over powering chip pan smell but at the moment, instead of showering straight away i come on here, ha you can tell im new to all this, its still exciting, give it a month

but been geting everything ready for the table of 25 for all the unlucky people working tonight, but ive never understood having christmas dinner... before christmas, seems odd, but never the less the mince pies came out today and well at least 2 went missing, mysteriously

My plan for the army was the original reason for this post, as its pretty unknown to most, being a very controverstail career to go down, esspecially with the amount of media coverage at the moment with the war its much easyer to talk about anything else

but this is all based on what i've learnt from the websites, forums and talking to current soldiers, as a lot live in wootton with dalton barracks just around the corner and i've been training with some others recently who have served in Afganistan, ill find out more when i go for the interview, but if anything seems wrong do say.

I'm going in as infantry, this may come as a bit of a shock to some and i do apologies to anyone i told engineering but honestly it was much easyer at the time.

There are 4 main areas,
Light infantry, your bog stantard soldier, who goes on to specialise in a certain area weather it be mortar, machine gun etc.
Mechanised, essentially light infantry who use armoured personal carriers
Armoured, your tank personel
Air Assault, this is the one im going for, and as so, ill paste the whole extract from the british army website

Air Assault InfantryAir Assault Infantry are Light Infantry, specialised for the Air Assault role. They provide a hard hitting and versatile force that can be delivered by air, aviation or by land in support of Apache Attack Helicopter Regiments. The high speed of reaction makes such forces very useable and must be 'light, lean and lethal'. There are 4 battalions of Air Assault Infantry within 16 Air Assault Brigade, the Army's high readiness expeditionary formation.

I'm going for this as its one of the toughest, physically and mentally, and will give me a bit of a head start over any other division, as after the 4 years i'm going to try out for the Royal Marines, most of the qualitys from a Para regiment will set me up for this, from there i can be chosen for special forces and even the SAS, but as im still me, i very much doubt ill get that far up, but its a dream and something to work towards

hopefully this should work but its the video as well... ok it didnt but heres the link

so yeah, thats the plan, interview im going to arrange for next week.

http://www.army.mod.uk/infantry/role/10398.aspx