Lateral Transfer

[PJT]

Does the Irish Military offer any type of lateral transfer/overseas applicant program?

[DeV]

Does the Irish Military offer any type of lateral transfer/overseas applicant program?

Short answer no

There have been temporary exchange/attachments

I think they have included Canada, NZ and Malta

[barrybadrinah]

There was one PDF cadet who attended Sandhurst, but you know what happened there...

[Flamingo]

There was one PDF cadet who attended Sandhurst, but you know what happened there...

No...

[Bravo20]

There was one PDF cadet who attended Sandhurst, but you know what happened there...

The rumour has it he resigned and joined the BA

[barrybadrinah]

No rumour to it.

[DeV]

The rumour has it he resigned and joined the BA

may not have been the only armies he served in

[sofa]

Was his father a serving Officer.?

[paul g]

There was one PDF cadet who attended Sandhurst, but you know what happened there...

An urban myth, the pdf have never sent a cadet to sandhurst, why would they, sandhurst role s to train officers and the pdf have the cadet school. Only small states that cant justify their own officer training establishments like trinidad and tobago do things like that. If they sent somebody he be seriously disadvantaged in his eventual career. The only time they did was with women, but it was only in the beginning and once they had the facilities in the curragh thry stopped

Over the years there have been loads of lateral transfers. Back in 1989 there was an article from an officer who spent a year with the french army in an cosantoir, which played a role in my decision to quit the pdf.

[barrybadrinah]

Paul G I'm ex-BA, and a few times I was asked if I knew the Irish guy who bailed on the Irish Army to stick with the BA.

Keen to know why you quit the PDF over a lad going to France for a year!

[Bravo20]

Paul you are incorrect. It was well reported.

[paul g]

Paul you are incorrect. It was well reported.

Then i'd be pleased to see a link then

[The real Jack]

He's mentioned in the book by the whiney R Irish officer

[DeV]

He's mentioned in the book by the whiney R Irish officer

Paddy Bury's book?

Said former Irish officer turned BA officer was a few years ahead of him in school

[DeV]

An urban myth, the pdf have never sent a cadet to sandhurst, why would they, sandhurst role s to train officers and the pdf have the cadet school. Only small states that cant justify their own officer training establishments like trinidad and tobago do things like that. If they sent somebody he be seriously disadvantaged in his eventual career. The only time they did was with women, but it was only in the beginning and once they had the facilities in the curragh thry stopped

Over the years there have been loads of lateral transfers. Back in 1989 there was an article from an officer who spent a year with the french army in an cosantoir, which played a role in my decision to quit the pdf.

Lots of big countries send people to Sandhurst

We have the C&S School who run the Sen C&S Cse (for promotion to Lt Col) but we still sent people to do the equivalent courses in the UK, US and I think France and Germany

The Irishman who was sent to Sandhurst by the DF was pictured in An Cosantoir at the time

[spider]

Lots of countries send young officers to Sandhurst...including the US...

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/news...Sandhurst.html

Sandhurst is seen as a good model

US Officers do exchanges there as Platoon Commanders too...there was a 7th Cav guy there when I went through...

[apod]

Then i'd be pleased to see a link then

There was a 2 page article in An Cosantoir* about it circa late 2000 early 2001. I was involved with training a 2-3* Pln that winter and the Platoon commander was pictured in the article at that Officers Sandhurst Commissioning.2-3 Irish Officers went over for the occasion.

* I tried The back catalogue for a link. Most of the issues from that year are not available yet online.Sorry.

[rod and serpent]

There was a 2 page article in An Cosantoir* about it circa late 2000 early 2001. I was involved with training a 2-3* Pln that winter and the Platoon commander was pictured in the article at that Officers Sandhurst Commissioning.2-3 Irish Officers went over for the occasion.

* I tried The back catalogue for a link. Most of the issues from that year are not available yet online.Sorry.

He joined a Welch regiment if I rightly remember.

[sofa]

There was a 2 page article in An Cosantoir* about it circa late 2000 early 2001. I was involved with training a 2-3* Pln that winter and the Platoon commander was pictured in the article at that Officers Sandhurst Commissioning.2-3 Irish Officers went over for the occasion.

* I tried The back catalogue for a link. Most of the issues from that year are not available yet online.Sorry.

I remember that photo.