Army, i was going to try the navy, but i when i heard they were changing i decided to wait. However i may give it another shot now that youve said that.
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Two words: Sod. Capita.
Damning figures for UK military recruitment with 54% giving up on the process last year (March 2024)
TL:DR: The UK Army lost 70% of candidates/applicants, and overall about half the Applicants across the Armed Forces who didn’t continue their application did so because the various recruitment processes took too long. The big problem with this, is of course, we’re losing more people than we’re taking in year on year, so cuts or not, our armed forces are getting smaller.
My wait time has so far been about 12+ months. To be fair, the next 3/4 months is unavoidable, and not really their fault, but still. My biggest worry is the Flying Training. Since, before Covid, there were some, shall we say, serious problems in MFTS, and I’ve no idea how much they’ve been fixed. Oh well…
It’s worth a shot, while I can’t speak for Ratings, Officer wait times, depending on how you do in selection, are somewhere in the region of a year or two. Ofc, Fast Track will be a whole lot faster than that, and Aircrew will be a lot slower (dependent on FATs) so just bear it in mind.
Anyway, how have we got to military recruitment from the Fox? lmao
Because we all play a military sim, and therefore have an interest in the armed forces. But thanks for the encouragement, it wont hurt trying again.
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Do we have any word for the pen adjustment for the RARDEN?
Dont think so, I guess we’ll just have to wait for the next dev-blog for that, likely monday or tuesday
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nah, all good. we need all the bods we can get onboard. I dunno if you noticed but currently half our Amphibs are in reserve, on the basis we have no crew for them. Heh, would be a shame if we needed to evacuate British citizens from somewhere en masse… oh wait…
Has this thread gotten any more civil?
Funny to think that this thread is now 1100+ replies, half of which from one angry russian.
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hey, we’ve found one area of agreement, and that is that British Military recruitment is ass!
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Your mistake was joining the RAF lmao. RN for the win.
The whole thing with an “unmotivated youth” well a) funny old thing most people don’t want to sell their life to a Government who doesn’t give a damn about them in civvie street, and b) usual scapegoating, it’s all our fault that we didn’t buy houses 30 years ago to avoid the market crashing down on us. Young people’s asks (a guarantee of an affordable, good house, reasonable taxation) are practically what everyone else asks, but somehow the Government thinks we’ve murdered their firstborn.
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You were comparing avocado pits to stones and complaining that the stones flew through a glass window when the avocado pits bounced off.
Fox isn’t comparable to a bloody wheeled IFV no matter how much you want to compare the two.
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i dont see the fox in game now
Oh should I have compared the FOX and the 2S25? I meant they’re soooo similar right?
I cant see the need to discuss with someone who has the brilliance to say “Britain needs more skillful players”, while only playing the British vehicles that are deemed not shit.
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Anyone who would willing torture themselves the play Britian would understand that you can count on 1 hand the number of good vehicles Britain has.
And I use the term good very liberally.
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Britain players are much happy when the stormer AD is added - it is not as good as the LAV-AD, roughly comparable to other 9.7 AA(except the sidam), but people were still very happy that something isnt unplayable is added.
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It does usually happen once per year :D
(which is terrorfying for the next two major updates)
I feel intense joy every time I spawn it.
It’s fantastic at murdering first spawn helis and generating rage.
My record is 4, got a bit spicy when the missiles were reloading but they all died.
Today I learned the Wiesel can frontally pen a centurion mk3 through the breech or turret ring.
Like yeah, i fucked up vs the turms but… I’m very confused about the wiesel.