I’m RGBW sponsored as well but since they’re being disbanded not sure if i’ll go with them. As i’m from Wiltshire i don’t fancy joining PWRR (where the wilts element are supposed to be going) i’m still praying that divine intervention may yet save my county regiment!
Go with the PWRR a far better choice, but then I may be prejudice. 
I think the Wilts part to the M4 rifles is off the D&Ds. It will be very difficult if you join a regt that is going through a change like this and unless there is very very good leadership it will be difficult to produce a good unit out of two very good Bns. This bitterness will go on for years, we never used the number 57 always 56 +1, :lol: childish but they were only a small group and we had a longer history. Go for England’s senior regt, we are slowly working our way up the country. 
AInf and Germany is a great posting. :twisted:
Although i imagine the PWRR are a good bunch of lads on the whole all the PWRR guys i’ve met(in my unit) are tossers, with the exception of our clothing sergeant who’s a legend, One in particular a W02 attached to our lot used to give me all kinds of sh*t for wanting to be RGBW or RSIGS told me i’d never hack etc…I think he got offended when i told him, way back before the disbanding of RGBW was announced, i didn’t want to join his unit as I wanted to be with guys from my area, the South West as i believed that they were ‘the best soldiers in the world’ something the officers recruiting captain for the RGBW told me 
Anyway since i’m told he’s fairly well known in the PWRR he’s still quite young and is likely to be around for awhile i think i’ll give PWRR a miss. Shame really as they’re a damn fine regiment who did a very good job in Iraq, especailly that bayonet charge!
Served with TA infantry
6 years regular service
Still on reserve and will be untill hell freezes over.
Now ACF instructor as a cardboard cutout officer.
Daytime job project managing military systems design and sales for a major engineering company.
The Glosters and the D&D are due to be absorbed by the Light Infantry, which itself seems to be hell-bent on amalgamating with the Royal Green Jackets.
wrong told,i did the army no conscription,i don´t remember the name in english of when you are soldier.
Erwin,
Conscription means the same as your Servicio militar (“hacer la mili” in Spain), e.g. that every healthy young man has to spend a time in the military.
Jan
yes,servicio militar,thanks walther!,but,i did the army,i dk how you say when you are proffesional soldier (btw,i was only one year in the army,then after the hateful commando course i leave)
Wow. I have not had any military experience yet. 
I am still a youngin finishing up through HS then I am pretty sure though not 100% that I am looking into the whole “military scene.” I do have restrictions though that totally bum me out being I have glasses no flying except drones. I am also color blind, not extreme though just things that look really close shade wise is a bit difficult for me. :lol: If I do go through with it I will be the first one to go into the military scene since my grandparents. My father was not in it nor are any of my brothers the military type.
Well if you are I would suggest the Air Force or the Navy. Just my experience with people ive interacted with. Not to knock the others. The stories I hear from US soliders coming back from Iraq, in the Army and Marine corps arent to pretty. Also dont rule out looking into ROTC if you can go. Sorry to say being colorblind you have a zero chance of becoming a pilot. Dont feel bad im epiliptic so i have a zero chance of being in the military. Well not unless all hell breaks loose. And if they are going to take me things are way to f**ked anyhow. Kinda crappy. Napoleon was epileptic and i hear he did okay in the military. :lol:
Well I had a seizure back in 4th grade but I’ve been free for many many years now. So does that mean I can’t join up now? I forgot to ask the guy at my HS about that.
Normally the arent concerned with a one time occurence when you where young. They will want to know about it. (although i just wouldnt mention it if I where you And i have a decent understanding of MEP’s procedure) They just want to be pretty certain that you are not on any medication and that they arent random. I wouldnt sweat it.
I could probably get into the military but without my medication i wouldnt make it thru boot camp. I have more of a photo sensitive epilepsy which is triggered from stress and fatigue. So I would be cool untill i looked at a computer. :shock:
Gotcha. When I went back to the doctors a few years ago he had me blow a piece of paper for 2 minutes straight. He said if I was going to have another seizure I would have had it then. Thanks for the info. 8)
Hello to all people on this grate site!
I’ve served in the Greek army for 18th months as an infantry soldier (just like any other Greek).
hello! ,best wishes and have fun in this site,i hope you will like it.
My biography up to the early 90s reflects the political situation in Cold War West Berlin, which was under Allied post war rule up to 1990 (reunification of Germany).
The last person of my family serving in the military was my grandfather in the WW2 Luftwaffe.
Under Allied rule (actually since the Berlin Airlift 1948-49 in West Berlin a benevolent military dictatorship, the final say laid with the three western Allied Brigadiers, but they let us Germans run our own affairs pretty much by ourselves), German military was not allowed to recruit from West Berlin (actually Berlin as a whole, but the Russians permitted against western protests the East German NVA to conscript from East Berlin).
I joined the technical and heavy rescue branch of the German civil defense (Technisches Hilfswerk, the sucessor of the wartime Technische Nothilfe, but completely denazified, today a part of the federal ministry of the interior) in summer 1982 at the age of 15 as a volunteer, due to my father having served there since 1969 until he suffered a stroke in 1996. For the first two years I was a member of our cadet section, essentially learning the basics of the trade (but no power tools and nothing dangerous). At the age of 17 I moved to the basic training section and became a regular member after one year of basic training. The whole thing is in a way similar to the Territorial Army in the British forces, e.g. training on weekends or evenings.
We had one company of 3 platoons, two rescue platoons and omne infrastructure platoon. Additionally our company had a bridging section operating the, at this time, only pontoon bridge/ferry in West Berlin (not owned by the Allied forces).
I was in No. 2 section of No. 1 platoon. As a speciality I got trained in demolitions and explosives (two demolition specialists per platoon back then, a lot of specialities got removed after the end of cold war due to cost cutting. Other specialities would be truck driver, signaller, medic, field cook, motor boat operator, crane and digger operator etc.).
My highest rank was the equivalent of temporarely acting corporal (Gruppenführer, in charge of a section). For a while I also ran our basic training section, teaching new recruits.
In some aspects our methods were quite similar to military engineers (road building, bridging demolitions), but since were were operating under the Geneva conventions, we were no combatants and carried no weapons.
In case of war or a major disaster, the job of the rescue sections would have been to dig out people from damaged buildings (the main task e were trained in), but also to clear roads and rebuild bridges.
The infrastructure platoon´s job was to rebuild emergency electricity, water, gas and sewage supplies.
I was on regular duty until 1998, when I had to move to Ireland for a job. When I returned, I reenlisted with a local unit, where I currently live, I know that I´m still on some reserve list for emergency callout, but I more or less had to quit it because I couldn´t line up my job (requires a lot of shifts on weekends) and training.
P.S. When Germany got reunified, one part of the 4 plus 2 agreement was the reduction of the now combined Bundeswehr and NVA to 370,000 men maximum, because else the combined German forces would have been the biggest miltary in Europe and our neighbours were not comfortable with it. Since I was already in my mid 20s and a married father, the powers that be apparently decided that I would be too expensive (being married they would have had to pay me like a regular soldier, not the pocket money of a conscript) and I didn´t even receive the usual order to present myself for a medical exam.
Jan
My experience is pretty limited: 18 months as a TA (reserve) infantryman. I never saw active service. I then applied for the regular army, and after 9 months of waiting to join was told I was medically unfit - I was a keen runner, and had knee problems caused by over-training. Now, at 25, I’m tempted to have another sTAb at it (hohoho, pardon the pun), with the TA Intelligence Corps.
I have the utmost respect for anyone who serves, but in honesty I’m apprehensive about joining again, seeing the attitude of the current government to our Forces.
BTW, is there any restriction to the German military nowadays?
I’m 14 and my military service is paintballing at huge events like Stalingrad and Normandy Invasion D-Day Scenerios at Skirmish USA 
, and if you ask me, the Iraqi Conflict is pointless, we got Saddam and rebuilt, how about, let’s not put a Starbucks and Burger King in the middle of the Desert and send armed troops to guard them as crazy Fanatics slowly take them out AMEN.
“Mil-I- Tary” experience. Generally involved the Military or at least national service in these aituations not C-o-D or other games.
and incidentally, you havent “rebuilt” Iraq yet. So forget plan B about sticking starbucks in place, lets jsut concentrate on getting all the infrastrcuture back up before draining their country of cash.