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| Royal Navy on 22:48 - Feb 22 with 1843 views | lockseaf77 |
Most of them appear to have the mental age of five | | | |
| Royal Navy on 22:51 - Feb 22 with 1836 views | Gennaro_Contaldo |
They all come over soft as f**k too. | |
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| Royal Navy on 22:52 - Feb 22 with 1830 views | SaintNick |
They dont need to be tough though as they dont get hand to hand so to speak with the opposition, they just need to know how to operate computers and equipment | |
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| Royal Navy on 23:16 - Feb 22 with 1795 views | sfc1971 |
I was there in 87 (served 8+yrs) and the training has either gone very soft or its been diluted for TV. We had Royal Marine RSM`s doing our Drill not some fat Wren Writer FFS!!! And we def did NOT have carpet. WTF is that all about??? | |
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| Royal Navy on 23:24 - Feb 22 with 1782 views | lockseaf77 |
They've definitely gone soft.
Ganges would have killed them in the first week.
Give me twenty | | | |
| Royal Navy on 23:33 - Feb 22 with 1773 views | sfc1971 |
I have not watched the whole thing as yet but where is the assault course, RAS, Driu, Firefighting & Pier Cellars etc?? And since when have the Instructors been nice?? | |
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| Royal Navy on 09:24 - Feb 23 with 1670 views | lockseaf77 |
I think next Monday's edition will show some of that, so that will kill the rest of them off.
Made we laugh when one of the lads was brought in for a 'talking to'.
"Come in and sit down" FFS! | | | |
| Royal Navy on 09:52 - Feb 23 with 1652 views | sfc1971 |
I was thinking the same thing, WTF happened to "Off Caps" and you would be Sh1ting it!! | |
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| Royal Navy on 09:58 - Feb 23 with 1647 views | TheMoog |
'Meet me in the armoury in 10 minutes'. | |
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| Royal Navy on 12:29 - Feb 23 with 1592 views | GasGiant |
It's not the service that I recognise that's for sure but as some of my old buddies would say that's because they don't have sails on the ships any more. | | | |
| Royal Navy on 13:28 - Feb 23 with 1561 views | battler |
Spot on, I was there in 88 and there is some very serious programme editing going on as it seems a totally different experience now. | | | |
| Royal Navy on 13:33 - Feb 23 with 1548 views | Gennaro_Contaldo |
That's what I thought. I didn't know if it all looked softer because there's all this nonsense about bullying, so they have to do the softly softly approach and talk to them like work mates instead of armed service personnel??
Last week there was some scrawny little 17 year old with more than enough lip. Definitely needed a firmer hand, be toughened up and sent to the f**king gym on rations of eggs and chicken. | |
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| Royal Navy on 13:36 - Feb 23 with 1542 views | Del_Bianco |
Dell days aka Jamie that posts on here is a chef in the navy, I'm sure he can tell us what it's like in there now. | |
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| Royal Navy on 13:57 - Feb 23 with 1532 views | TheMoog |
I didn't watch the programme in question but I have some experience of this having spent some time instructing recruits in the Army at Bassingbourn.
It is a known phenomenon that things were always harder 'back in my day'. A recruit will think they're being tortured but an experienced soldier will view the same activities quite differently and retrospectively add a mile or a day or take off a few degrees centigrade when recounting their own training experiences.
That said, certain things have changed with regard to treatment of recruits, particularly in respect of bullying and initiations and the like which has been forced (and rightly so) by the goings on at Deepcut. In my opinion, the actual training activities still retain the appropriate level of difficulty and hardship and so on. But that is my experience in the Army; I couldn't comment on how easy RN training is or its appropriateness to the job.
What I can say is the people in charge would almost certainly have vetoed certain things being aired or directed a certain approach from the staff in front of the cameras so I wouldn't hold this programme as particularly representative anyway. | |
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| Royal Navy on 14:00 - Feb 23 with 1528 views | dune |
Do you think he serves the captains table with a silver platter of fish fingers? | |
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| Royal Navy on 14:03 - Feb 23 with 1525 views | TheMoog |
The Chef's Course is the hardest in HM Forces; none of the fukkers have passed it. | |
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| Royal Navy on 14:48 - Feb 23 with 1499 views | sfc1971 |
Its a bloody long course too! When I was at Raleigh most of the Chef/Steward boys were little 16yr old Wimps who then got shipped off to Aldershot of all places to feed the Paras. I think the course was about a year long and full of Bul1shit.
They should have shown this as it is i.e not being allowed out for 1st weeks to that very 1st trip to NAFFI and the Gate inspections while going on 1st run ashore to Torpoint then coming back trying to act sober telling them you haven’t been across to Plymouth 
Kit musters seem light aswell, we never had the posh lockers or ironing boards. it was all done on a work top and had to be A4 size on you’re bed. Maybe I`m just old?? [Post edited 23 Feb 2016 14:52]
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| Royal Navy on 16:59 - Feb 23 with 1459 views | lockseaf77 |
With an RPO right up your arse | | | |
| Royal Navy on 17:19 - Feb 23 with 1442 views | Del_Bianco |
no wonder dull days thinks he's Casey Ryback. | |
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| Royal Navy on 17:23 - Feb 23 with 1432 views | thedelldays |
It has gotten soft over the years. when Crown Immunity was taken away from the armed forces, many aspects of training had to be changed
Women in front line infantry/commando roles is next on the hit list
there is a massive element of TV editing to make this show.
Much of the swearing/language/tone has been toned down. Much of that is because (i kid you not) people (the staff) dont want to have some form of court case brought against them (the production team had to highlight the possibility to them)
thankfully, training is a lot more strict after Raleigh [Post edited 23 Feb 2016 17:30]
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| Royal Navy on 20:11 - Feb 23 with 1365 views | sfc1971 |
I did mine at HMS Cambridge it was the best thing I ever did, Fooking hard but also funny and I met some characters. Anyone else who had the pleasure will remember Cardiac hill and that close quarter combat part. | |
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| Royal Navy on 20:44 - Feb 23 with 1350 views | thedelldays |
I did a boarding party course at Cambridge. Running up and down that hill with a 4.5 shell. Just for yawning.
alas, that place has gone to the great Naval Base in the sky.
Collingwood for newbies is pretty strict. Raleigh is but not as you would remember. Just that this TV programme has shown zero naval training and has focused on about 4 simpletons and some prat as class leader | | | |
| Royal Navy on 20:48 - Feb 23 with 1337 views | Leslie |
Yawning? Did they punish you and make you read one of your saintsweb posts? | |
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| Royal Navy on 20:54 - Feb 23 with 1329 views | thedelldays |
your pish taking is miles better than that. come on | | | |
| Royal Navy on 21:00 - Feb 23 with 1321 views | SaintNick |
Do the Navy stlll have the press gang, I think not as Pompey's unemployment rates are pretty high | |
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