Should the UK reintroduce National Service?

[Flame-returns]

Ah ha, the RAF has hundreds of people who apply to every postition so they can afford to be very selective. The RAF does not fall under the juristiction of signals so it is a law unto its own.

 

[Flame-returns]

I was thinking on doing something very similiar but the thought that I might be living far away from london put me off the idea. Now if they could assure me that I lived like a hour away from london or so that I could still easily travel to london to party then I would do it.

Party? I don't think you have the hang of this thing yet.

 

[Young_Warrior]

I heard the RAF is desperatley seeking new members actually. Most people probbaly wanna be pilots only to some reason not make it. Its very difficult to be a pilot.

 

[Young_Warrior]

Party? I don't think you have the hang of this thing yet.

 

[Dave A]

You don't get to party like a college kid you know, like I said, it's not meant to be fun.

 

[Flame-returns]

I heard the RAF is desperatley seeking new members actually. Most people probbaly wanna be pilots only to some reason not make it. Its very difficult to be a pilot.

Becoming a pilot and being licensed to fly is actually very difficult (or so my RAF collegues tell me) the problem is that commited and dedicated RAF troops who fail their licence will be offered ground jobs for the RAF.

 

[Young_Warrior]

And I wanna ground job. Or wanted. Flame your in the army right. Dont you have fun. You guys its gotta be some fun otherwise people would just leave and moral would be low.

 

[Flame-returns]

I'm an NCO (I'm non comissioned, so I can chose whether to fight a war, yet I carry officer status). Yes, I do have fun, you would not beleive how satisfying trying to cook food on a camp fire in a forest, in the rain is. But as well as the survival excercises and marksmanship tests there is also a good deal of dull tedium, getting up at 5:30 am to shine you boots, marching the new boys to breakfast (man I'm powerful), spending the next hour or so organising the new boys into pretty but completely pointless formations before marching them off to do drill.