Hi I want to join the English army and train to be a doctor with them. My dad was in the army and my grandad and so it seems natural for me to. However I think I dont know if I could cope with having to be away from home so much. I was wondering if anyone had any advice or any experinces of being away and if you have had to go how do you cope? Any comments would be very much appreciated. Thanks. xx
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Join the army?
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I have not yet joined the army, but have been given some advice by those who deploy alot. The advice I have been given is to keep God at the center of what you do. Remember your home is not some physical place on this earth.
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Firstly, it's the British Army. You will annoy an awful lot of Scots, Welsh, and Irish if you call it the English Army!Amy in hyper Land! said:
So, you want to be a Doctor? Good on you! The Army is very short on the medical side of things, shown by the recent Gulf conflict, and the amount of RAMC reservists that were called up. You will be very well looked after as an Army doctor.
May I suggest going for a Medical Cadetship. If you get it, you'll effectively be a 2nd Lt. while at Uni, and they'll pay some of your way through your course. Then, you simply do the 4 week "tarts and vicars" course at RMAS (you'll be a PQO, so won't do the full year), and voila! You're there. Competition for the Cadetship is fierce, and you'll have to do very well at RCB to get it.
If you need anymore help/advice/etc. let me know. Good luck!
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Don't join straight out of school- try and do some other stuff in the real world first. Perhaps join the TA or something for a while to see if you like army life. Me thinks anyway.
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yeh I think that you are right jhollas, I do have to go to uni so i wont be joining at least until I am in my first year I dont think. If I do decide to join then I might take a gap year out first so that I can get a kinda feel for life outside and also i think it is cool that I would be joining as a 2nd lt- I didnt know that thanks.
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