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  • #91
    Originally posted by ArdMhacha View Post
    Thanks Havoc, I know the craic with boys dropping out, we had 2 or 3 lads go on our first night in training. But that was then and this is now, the 40 lads who got in were picked from 1000+ applicants, they are more than likely going to want this more than anything so they won't be dropping out as easily as with previous platoons.
    But thanks anyway, I've emailed manpower about the situation with subs but have had no reply (I'd imagine their quite busy today!) but I have to be realistic aswell, I'm 24 now, 25 at the end of July and its not as if recruitment is now a regular occurance, so perhaps thats the end of that. I'll not give up just yet, but it is very hard not to at the minute. (I'm just waiting for RGJ to get his hooks into me!)
    If 4 people don't go within the first few weeks, I'd be very suprised.

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    • #92
      Originally posted by Hello Alaska View Post
      If 4 people don't go within the first few weeks, I'd be very suprised.
      We should start a pool.
      To close with and kill the enemy in all weather conditions, night and day and over any terrain

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      • #93
        Thanks lads, I appreciate it. I spoke to my mate today who works in manpower, they told me I'm second sub apparently, so I'm praying a few of the recruits get cold feet or just cannot adapt.
        T-C, I applied for the Eastern Brigade and I'm ex PDF, I did a year in 2nd Battalion and left with a good record to further my education so I'm hoping thats taken into account if a few recruits drop out. Thanks again lads.

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        • #94
          There are no ex vikings
          Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;
          Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,
          The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere***
          The ceremony of innocence is drowned;
          The best lack all conviction, while the worst
          Are full of passionate intensity.

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          • #95
            Originally posted by Hello Alaska View Post
            If 4 people don't go within the first few weeks, I'd be very suprised.
            I remember you telling me before that you lost a few after the first "Induction" week.


            Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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            • #96
              Originally posted by HavocIRL View Post
              We should start a pool.
              Or, if ArdMhaca offered us enough money, we could make sure he gets the call. It'd be like getting tech pay but a wee bit more sinister.

              Originally posted by Goldie fish View Post
              I remember you telling me before that you lost a few after the first "Induction" week.
              Yeah, I've never heard of a Platoon not losing any bodies. There's always people that either can't adapt, weren't cut out for it in the first place, get injured etc.

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              • #97
                The FAQs for recruits revealed a lot of the preconceptions that past recruits have had, which possibly caused many of the early dropouts.


                Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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                • #98
                  We had a guy who on the second night in was playing soccer in the gym broke his ankle and never came back.....Two days.......

                  Another guy who turned up to the medical with a bandage on his finger, Doctor assumed it was a cut, turned out he had cut the top of his finger off and couldn't fire the rifle.

                  It depends on luck...
                  Covid 19 is not over ....it's still very real..Hand Hygiene, Social Distancing and Masks.. keep safe

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                  • #99
                    Originally posted by Goldie fish View Post
                    I remember you telling me before that you lost a few after the first "Induction" week.

                    Yeah absolutely. Thats why there's definitely a case to be made for restricting leave for the first few weeks. They go home to mammy and all the home comforts after week one or two and after that they dont wanna go back to be given out to by the big bad mean corporal.

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                    • Originally posted by DeV View Post
                      Thats a quarter the way into recruit training
                      You'd be very surprised at how quickly replacements catch up with the rest of the platoon. Particularly if they have been in the RDF. There isn't much covered in the first 4 weeks than an RDF guy wouldn't have done before.

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                      • Originally posted by Tango_Charlie View Post
                        You'd be very surprised at how quickly replacements catch up with the rest of the platoon. Particularly if they have been in the RDF. There isn't much covered in the first 4 weeks than an RDF guy wouldn't have done before.
                        I was taking into training as a sub 5 weeks in with 7 other lads,took us about 2 weeks to catch up fully with some extra evening training so it can be done.None of us where ex RDF either.
                        Spent my first night bivvied up on the range,quick a shock to the system.
                        SWIFT AND BOLD

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                        • The lads are all talking about dropouts but I would be surprised if you need to wait that long, there is no way that all the first 40 called will pass the medical.

                          In previous inductions the failure rate at medicals has been horrendous, a major fail point being hearing, not forgetting the auld pee in a bottle test
                          CRIME SCENE INSTIGATOR

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                          • 40 have already started. 1 Dropped out on the first day.

                            Keep the faith. Subs DO get called in.
                            To close with and kill the enemy in all weather conditions, night and day and over any terrain

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                            • NS in and started...

                              S brigade in and Started.

                              Although when I heard the entry criteria in the NS I did actually puke...

                              ****ing ride them....
                              Covid 19 is not over ....it's still very real..Hand Hygiene, Social Distancing and Masks.. keep safe

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                              • Naval recruits take oath of allegiance
                                By Sean O’Riordan

                                Wednesday, December 01, 2010

                                NAVAL recruits have taken an oath of allegiance for the first time since the recruitment embargo came into force two years ago.

                                A total of 38 recruits, who included three women, took the oath at the parade ground at the navy’s headquarters in Haulbowline, Co Cork, yesterday afternoon.

                                The navy received 1,143 applications for the 38 jobs.

                                Each of the four provinces was represented in the line-up, with two recruits coming from Belfast and Armagh.

                                Cork had the highest representation with Dublin in second place.

                                The recruits will now undergo an intensive 17-week course before becoming able seamen and they would expect to be serving at sea within the next six months.

                                After their initial 17-week course they will then be offered the chance to undertake specialist courses in mechanics, logistics and communications.

                                The current strength of the Naval Service is around 1,000. Some of the recruits will be looking forward to serving in ships which the Government has ordered to replace ageing vessels.

                                The Government recently signed contacts with Babcock Marine in Devon to build replacements for the LÉ Emer and LÉ Aoife.

                                A Naval Service spokesman said the ships would be built to the same specifications as the LÉ Roisin, but slightly larger. Babcock Marine built the LÉ Roisin and LÉ Niamh, which are the most modern of the navy’s eight serving vessels.

                                Picture: WELCOME ABOARD: From left, Denis Cummins and Alan Lynch, Dublin, Aaron O’Neill and Christopher Mulholland, Armagh, and Killian Cronin, Mallow, Co Cork, during their swearing in before Lt Ronan McLoughlin. Picture: Dan Linehan



                                This story appeared in the printed version of the Irish Examiner Wednesday, December 01, 2010



                                Read more: http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland...#ixzz17tNaBZPK
                                From December 1st


                                Catch-22 says they have a right to do anything we can't stop them from doing.

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