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Old 07-18-07, 11:41 AM   #1
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Seeing as we're on the subject of Submariners.


I just recently applied to be a Warfare Officer (Submariner) in Her Majestys Royal Navy.

I have a formal interview and a selection exam end of this month before I can even think of going to the Admiralty Interview Board...anyways I digress.

-0.25 is nothing in an eye. Yet thats how much I'm out by in my left. Yet I can be a Royal Marine or a RM Officer. I did a year in the Reserve Infantry and I can safely say you need ebtter eyesight as a slogger then an officer onbaord a submarine.

A very Big, Whisky, Tango, Foxtrot on that one.
And how many applicants per position are there for said officer slot. How many for line grunts? I myself don't know, but as a former knuckle dragger I'll bet it's not for the job where you get the privledge of napping in the mud and being hungry all the time.
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Old 07-18-07, 01:00 PM   #2
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Crappy food?!?

I was under the impression sub crews got the best pallets :hmm:

Even the DD I was on served decent chow.
Except for the roast beef - good lord it was boiled first then crisped in the oven, might as well serve rubber chickens.
Then there was the ever present sliders.
Fresh Milk underway was worth it's weight in gold, that boxed - powdered jazz was garbage.
I remember a few crates of veggies in Sasabo that were huge, looked like there were geneticaly altered, but almost tasteless.

Ok, so maybe the food wasn't That great ..
The thing that sticks out in my mind being from A-gang was the high-pressure air line running in the overhead-walk way by the chow line. Tards would always use it as an arm rest, it's a wonder it never snaped and blasted someone.
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Old 07-18-07, 03:32 PM   #3
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the food is okay, but it gets old. heres a pic of my boat:

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Old 07-18-07, 03:37 PM   #4
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Seeing as we're on the subject of Submariners.


I just recently applied to be a Warfare Officer (Submariner) in Her Majestys Royal Navy.

I have a formal interview and a selection exam end of this month before I can even think of going to the Admiralty Interview Board...anyways I digress.

-0.25 is nothing in an eye. Yet thats how much I'm out by in my left. Yet I can be a Royal Marine or a RM Officer. I did a year in the Reserve Infantry and I can safely say you need ebtter eyesight as a slogger then an officer onbaord a submarine.

A very Big, Whisky, Tango, Foxtrot on that one.
And how many applicants per position are there for said officer slot. How many for line grunts? I myself don't know, but as a former knuckle dragger I'll bet it's not for the job where you get the privledge of napping in the mud and being hungry all the time.
They are hard pressed for submariners, its never off the advertising board. Guy was shocked when I mentioned it. Its not jsut subs its fleet aswell the eyesight applies too. But yeah, msot officer applicants go Engineering or Warfare with the fleet. Not subs, so I doubt ahrdly any at all. Grunts? Oh feth laods go through the door applying for Infantry.

Infantry was a laugh to a degree, rat packs are good, yorkie bars in them now lol. But yeah sleeping in the dirt... depends if your in an OP or basha'd up in your platoon area. Platoon area you havea roll mat and your maggot bag. Stag however is inthe dirt...rain or shine lol But thats my point, on stag (sentry) for the absha position, your going to want 20/20.
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Old 07-27-07, 12:30 AM   #5
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Seeing as we're on the subject of Submariners.


I just recently applied to be a Warfare Officer (Submariner) in Her Majestys Royal Navy.

I have a formal interview and a selection exam end of this month before I can even think of going to the Admiralty Interview Board...anyways I digress.

-0.25 is nothing in an eye. Yet thats how much I'm out by in my left. Yet I can be a Royal Marine or a RM Officer. I did a year in the Reserve Infantry and I can safely say you need ebtter eyesight as a slogger then an officer onbaord a submarine.

A very Big, Whisky, Tango, Foxtrot on that one.
And how many applicants per position are there for said officer slot. How many for line grunts? I myself don't know, but as a former knuckle dragger I'll bet it's not for the job where you get the privledge of napping in the mud and being hungry all the time.
They are hard pressed for submariners, its never off the advertising board. Guy was shocked when I mentioned it. Its not jsut subs its fleet aswell the eyesight applies too. But yeah, msot officer applicants go Engineering or Warfare with the fleet. Not subs, so I doubt ahrdly any at all. Grunts? Oh feth laods go through the door applying for Infantry.

Infantry was a laugh to a degree, rat packs are good, yorkie bars in them now lol. But yeah sleeping in the dirt... depends if your in an OP or basha'd up in your platoon area. Platoon area you havea roll mat and your maggot bag. Stag however is inthe dirt...rain or shine lol But thats my point, on stag (sentry) for the absha position, your going to want 20/20.
Part of me isn't shocked. Part of me wants to scour the world of all those with rectal-cranial inversions.

Can't say I really know what it's like now, but when I walked in to the Recuiters office and said Infantry (Airborne) unless you got something better, the man almost blew a load in his pants. And to be honest I don't have 20/20. Not near. Still had less of a problem doing my duty than many with better MK1's. Most of being a good grunt is being willing to suck it up.
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