Is it really that bad in Scotland ?

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i did a para intake , i couldn’t be doing with it so re cap badged as I wanted to leave with something viable other than I’m good crack and my knees are f****d 

Good for him max to push himself although with his timings , he’s sadly missed out on a very decent era for ABF and will have been criminally underused imho 

 

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dotty is it true jocks are geordies [BANNED TEXT] brain damage pmsl

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7 hours ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

I serve in a parachute squadron , have done for over a decade.

Varied in strength from about 90 -120 dependant on time. 

Never more than 5 or 6 jocks there at one time. 

Twaddle 

 

 

There might have been a few more in the Black Watch or the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders 

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2 hours ago, Nicepix said:

There might have been a few more in the Black Watch or the Argyll & Sutherland Highlanders 

Well naturally there would be as it’s their recruiting area 

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7 hours ago, maxhardcore said:

Stiff - Katch

A article Iv just read states that the SAS on average is made up of slightly more than 15% Scots.

And that Scotland only makes up 8% of the population of the UK.

So going Off them numbers they a disproportionately represented in Our SAS.

Make of that what you will ' argue the toss if you like .

But there you go

Nonsense 

the units that feed the special forces are traditionally 16 aa and army based infantry for Hereford . 

With the sbs normally seen as the natural progression for Royal Marines in particular recce operators and mountain leaders . The basing of royals in abroath naturally determines a higher than average application for jocks to this arm.

srr normally recruit from a slightly older peer group than uksf which is usually a broad spectrum of mixed cap badges including females . A lot of guys who fail selection go back on for SRR . 

I can categorically state that of the 100 or so lads who I personally know have attempted selection , 2 were jocks. 

 

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8 hours ago, W. Katchum said:

I agree with what ye saying but tbh but. The reason there ain’t many jocks in with you is they like to stick together, back when I was rhf it was the done thing for lads to join em from there catchment area, same as highlanders an black watch an so on, now it’s the regiment a scotland, an I no too sure how it works but back in the day a Glaswegian lad would have laughed at joining the para’s, marines or anything other than the rhf, unless he had family ties to another regiment

 

but the answer the post, there is no more jocks than any other nationalaity in the forces, atleast not that I know of an when I was training recruits 15 odd year back then the smaller jock regimiments that had lads in training didn’t even have enough for a section of there own an had to borrow lads from north England to make up there numbers

On the money pal 

you follow your blood normally 

especially amongst the trade arms and the infantry 

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Comedy gold as usual 

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Last week he was Nelson Mandela and this week he is General Sir Mike Jackson ! 

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6 hours ago, THE STIFFMEISTER said:

Well naturally there would be as it’s their recruiting area 

So that's a few thousand Scots in the British Army. Not the few that you encountered.