OK someone else posted this in one of the army groups on myspace. I SO totaly agree and its getting worse! the replys that alot of lads thinking the same too have a read


Right...i could probably get in trouble for this if it ever found its way into my bosses hands due to the fact ive had a number of warnings about spreading descent amongst the junior privates/signallers. I even got accused of "recruiting" young soldiers to my cause of hating the army, jesus do they think im trying to start a rebel army or something.

ok where do i fucking start. Overweight people? Arse Kissers? Females? Thieves? i know ill start from the top. Now this is not a rant about overweight people because people have a right to be how they want to be but in the army they have a moral obligation to stay fit for duty but it seems that doesnt happen, overweight people prosper while others fall by the wayside. The Basic Personal Fitness Assesment recently renamed the Personal Fitness Test consists of being able to achieve 44 pressups in 2 minutes, 50 sit ups in 2 minutes and a mile and a half run in 1030 for males. Now this is not hard or should not be hard for trained soldiers but people fail regularly. Some people lower themselves to feigning injury to avoid the testss some people have been on the "sick" for years and yet even though they are classed as unfit for duty they prosper being promoted while people who can pass stand and watch. The RPs (regimental police) at my barracks are all too unfit to pass a personal fitness test and are still given the authority of police which they abuse regularly. i dont mind getting a good shouting at or marched around as a punishment but to be punished by somebody who themselves cant even pass a BASIC fitness test is the most degrading thing that can happen to a soldier. These soldiers unfit for duty are not encouraged to get themselves fit because tax payers money pays for their physiotherapy when they become too heavy that their own knees cant support them and give way, they are promoted even though they can not carry out their jobs. It is a horrendous problem and will not get better anytime soon.

Arse kissers, now they are people not fit to lick the shit of my boots. they lower themselves to grassing up mates in order to improve their careers. im sure every workplace has them, they are what we all know as gobshite.

Females, now dont get me wrong i have no problem with females in the army and some are good mates but if they are taking home the same pay as us they should not be abusing the fact that they are female and all it takes from them is tears, eye lashes flashed or a large cleavege to get out of jobs while the lads get shit on to cover their arses too. SNCO, seargents and above regularly abuse their position of authority to get a female into the sack and the girls go for it thinking it will grant them immunity from shit jobs again leaving us lads with them.

Thieves, oh my god, there is no loyalty amongst theives. apparently there is also no loyalty between soldiers anymore. sub human scum, they steal from their comrades at first opertunity without remorse. Due to stricter rules than earlier armys we cant even give these scumbags a good kicking like we used to.

Bullies, yes it still happens in the army, people are regularly bullied by people inferior to themselves but who have the nerve to think them above everyone. i recently was punished for giving one such bully the kicking of his life, he got away scot free. its not my right to take the law into my own hands but you reap what you sow in my world and i wont stand by and let filth bully people.

immaturaty. The army is full of immature soldiers who have not lived outside of school or the army where they are sheltered from the real world. You often find that its the lads who were bought up in broken homes that are the most mature, they have been through life and have earned my respect and im fed up with immature little shits gobbing off with no respect for others. This is what results in squaddies having a bad reputation because of the way they treat people in the towns they visit. I am sometimes ashamed to admit to my job.

Dont get me wrong, i love the army and the opertunities it has given me to broaden my horizens but things have reached such a sad state of affairs when soldiers who love the army and have never commited any of the offences stated above are reduced to leaving like myself



Well i hope u find this post interesting because i sure did lol

Pete