Originally Posted by The Highway Man

13 weeks? part timer! My police training was 30 weeks.

30 weeks? Part timer! My RM Officers training was just over 60 weeks/15 months.

My (proper ) police officer training was 104 weeks.

Originally Posted by USMCPoolee03xx

I got the job of ammunition and ordnance disposal

A very important job! Good man!

Originally Posted by Capt Frogman

My (proper ) police officer training was 104 weeks.

That's a long time to learn how to confiscate Bucky off 9 year olds!

Originally Posted by The Highway Man

That's a long time to learn how to confiscate Bucky off 9 year olds!

Tell me about it!

It was 64 weeks of assessments and the remainder out in the field as a probationer.

All our assessments were done at the old Station Commanders house at the now defunct RAF Tangmere. Every room was kitted out differently to perform a number of different scenarios. There was a barrack room, married quarters living room and bedroom, NAAFI bar, police station and a guard room. We were tested on all aspects of our training, outside in the grounds we dealt with close arrests for fighting, drunkenness etc, and dealt with RTCs. All the rooms in the house were miked and camera monitored by the trainers in the control room in the attic. The assessments were made as realistic as possible.

Originally Posted by The Highway Man

13 weeks? part timer! My police training was 30 weeks.

Originally Posted by Capt Frogman

30 weeks? Part timer! My RM Officers training was just over 60 weeks/15 months.

My (proper ) police officer training was 104 weeks.

That's because they had to teach you to read and write and count past 21 without taking off your shoes and socks and dropping your knickers.

Originally Posted by Capt Frogman

30 weeks? Part timer! My RM Officers training was just over 60 weeks/15 months.

My (proper ) police officer training was 104 weeks.

Yes but doing a 15 week course 4 times doesn't make it a 60 week course you know.

Originally Posted by The Highway Man

All our assessments were done at the old Station Commanders house at the now defunct RAF Tangmere. Every room was kitted out differently to perform a number of different scenarios. There was a barrack room, married quarters living room and bedroom, NAAFI bar, police station and a guard room. We were tested on all aspects of our training, outside in the grounds we dealt with close arrests for fighting, drunkenness etc, and dealt with RTCs. All the rooms in the house were miked and camera monitored by the trainers in the control room in the attic. The assessments were made as realistic as possible.

I use to visit Tangmere when it was operational, everything I knew is gone or going. Even my old operational station RAF Wattisham has been taken over by the pongo's.

Boot only seems daunting because you have never done anything like it before. In actuality, compared to doing operations in a regular unit...boot is quite easy. There is no thinking involved in boot, you just do exactly what you are told...outside of boot, you will be required to use your noggin on top of operate for 24, 36, 48, or more hours without sleep. Don't make it into somthing it is not, you will only make it harder on yourself. The main thing to remember is to never be "that guy". You know, the one that's always last to get up, the first to fall out, the first to fall asleep, the first one the DI finds crap wrong wth...etc. Remain anonymous and do your job. Drawing attention to yourself is bad in almost all cases. Remember that.

Originally Posted by brinktk

Boot only seems daunting because you have never done anything like it before. In actuality, compared to doing operations in a regular unit...boot is quite easy. There is no thinking involved in boot, you just do exactly what you are told...outside of boot, you will be required to use your noggin on top of operate for 24, 36, 48, or more hours without sleep. Don't make it into somthing it is not, you will only make it harder on yourself. The main thing to remember is to never be "that guy". You know, the one that's always last to get up, the first to fall out, the first to fall asleep, the first one the DI finds crap wrong wth...etc. Remain anonymous and do your job. Drawing attention to yourself is bad in almost all cases. Remember that.

That reminds me of the advice my father gave me, when it comes to the mundane tasks never be the first or last at anything or you will regret it.