Anyone on here in the TA?

[veeeffarr]

Bloody hell,

If you're not willing to actually go and fight, don't join! It's not playschool.

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[paulthewitt]

having been looking into this over the last year (once an injury is sorted, i will probably join) some of the stuff above is what they are officially telling new recruits.

they say you will be called up for war if needed, however, they will train you in any skills you will need before sending you.

i.e: you join the TA. 6 months later war breaks out. your unit is needed in iran (probably the next war zone ) so you get carted off to training for 6 months, then sent to iran.

no-where does it say you can refuse to be sent. you can differ the call up, if for example you are at uni. so you go to war once your degree is done.

having spoken to the regiment leader (corporal or whatver it is) they probably wont call you up for at leat two years. but there is no guarantee.

this iis what i have found reading the application packs and enquiring. so may be wrong, but its what they are tellin new recruits.
Paul

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I'd quite like to join. Unfortunately, I'd probably have to join a unit that is compatable with my civilian skills (rather than join the a unit where I could drive a tank to have some fun). That means that I'd go in as a Major (Lieutenant Colonel next year), but it also means that I'd be called up pretty quickly.
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[Luke_Retrofly]

Hi
Ive herad they are calling up TA recruits after just 2 months

I was going to join but they were basically saying you will probably be going to iraq, so I decided not to.

I good decision I reckon

Luke
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[craigie b]

Paul@125power...

No harm mate but you are talking absolute bullshit, and I mean grade A bullshit.

The TA has been mobilising troops to go to Iraq after the basic 2 months training. The TA has been mobilising troops who have had so little training that they don't even have basic weapon handling skills, so this two years your spouting is absoute bullshit.

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Jay a very good resource forum is this one hear....read through it to get a better idea.

https://www.arrse.co.uk/cpgn2/Forums/viewforum/f=35.html

Things to bear in mind are this, the TA will offer medical care similar to that of a regular but if you get injured and then discharged you are on you own in terms of medical care......

https://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4985170.stm

What if you get killed? I've read a TA payout to your family is 4K a year. One guy got killed leaving behind a wife, 4 kids and a 30K a year job. She got renumerated 4K and his other life insurance wouldn;t pay out due to a war zone clause.



Don't get me wrong the TA is a great institute and if you want a tour now is the time. Just be aware of the facts, i.e. you might be called up, if injured you might be on your own, if dead then your family might loose out and also beaware that employers are not to happy about people joining the TA as they are aware that mobilisation is on the rise. Don't rely on what the recruitment staff tell you, they will just say what you want to hear becasue the army is desperate for numbers at present.

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[Itchy]

Just to reiterate something recently debated in the HoC ,

The government were prepping LIFE SENTENCES

(read 8 years 24 years minus -> 1/3 for pleading gulity cut off , then you are up for parole after 1/2 of that , that said military courts are heiniously unfair and can disallow witnesses evidence and are puppets of Blair)

for refusing to go where you are ordered.

but as Toby says don't want to fight? , don't join,

this was exemplified by many of the crew of our flagship the Invincible , who when interviewed for the BBC proggie fighting the war , almost universally said , we never thought we'd be called up to fight. (having been lured by crud 90s adverts about traveling the world and getting paid for it while omitting fighting).


I'd also iterate theres this nasty trick the government uses called manning control , which sort of allows them to show you your P45 , and a couple years later call you up when your skills are needed.
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[Paul@125power]

Well, I do not talk sh1t, I was told this info by recruitment generals and Colonels of the TA and also, my dad, who was in the army for 11 years.
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oh, well if you already have a specialist skill that they require then thats different isnt it.
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[JpWard]

Im shocked at the level of rubbish and miss information in this topic

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