A gap year like none other: Life as an Army intern officer
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- čas přidán 8. 03. 2024
- An Army intern officer is proving how young people can take a gap year with a difference - joining the Armed Forces and getting a deployment - all before they head off to university.
Nineteen-year-old Second Lieutenant Mia Clark finished top of her class at Sandhurst, was awarded best Army Internship Student on CCS 233 and has joined 1st Battalion The Rifles stationed in Cyprus - a posting many soldiers long for.
"It was nothing like I'd ever done before, it was great," said 2Lt Clark.
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My National service in South Africa changed my life. For the better!
As an infantry soldier our basic training was 26 Weeks
Total Joke. The British Army needs to decide whether or it wants to be an elite professional force able to destroy its opponents or an institution involved in experimentation of social engineering. Problem is you don’t get a re match if you lose a battle. I wonder how effective she would have been on Mount Tumbledown.
I don’t believe for one second she was put through identical physical tests as the male infantry officers and expected to perform to the same standard.
That's because women & men are both physically and psychologically different, therefore certain adjustment in the test standards have to be made.
@@simongee8928 Yes, indeed.
And they shouldn’t be.
Completely not suitable for combat let alone lead a platoon. Total joke. She’d be dead on Mount Tumbledown in 82
@@willfletch5871she’s not in leadership, it’s an intern year. If she joined up after she’d do the full course at Sandhurst, as stated in the video
Officers should be commissioned from within the ranks. Feudalism is over.
Gender aside an 8 week course followed by a 1 week range course does not match up to a 26 week combat infantry course. If this were a gap year course after completing 1 or 2 years University Officer Training then an 8 week course that would be different. Maybe the year to get in was in an UOTC or Reservist unit but that is not what I understand.
Reminds me what a bad state of affairs the British Army is in when this sort of thing comes along Its all PR trying to cover up the real issue of our forces are too small in 2024
Interns don't get paid, and these people are NOT front line commanders, they have to do the command training at sandhurst to do that, and guess what. They aren't included in the British forces numbers anywhere.
@@Jeffybonbon Another fool who posts on CZcams expecting that to do something. If you want larger forces GO see YOUR MP, Demand they spend more on defence. NO ONE presently does that so nothing gets done ever. Oh why are the Army too small? The standing number of the Imperial (Empire) army was 40,000. This was increased in time of need, and "National emergency."
if you listen to the video you will hear that after this if they go either full time or part time they still have to do the full training. the 9 weeks is just for the intern year.
She has been posted to the Rifles which is an operational Bn and if they go to war she will be in command of a platoon of first class solders who are better trained than her its folly there is good reason why the RMAS is as long as it is and it takes time and dont forget an officer leaving RMAS will go on to do a Battle course to lead infantrymen @@johnpixie
Good effort, young lady! 👊🏼 🍻
I hope more well-balanced individuals, like yourself, choose to join up... 👏🏼👏🏼
Not physically able. Get her to carry a GPMG plus ammunition. No chance
How much did training this person cost for a 10month (2 months consumed by training) return on investment?
I'm assuming this option isn't open to more complex / technical trades such a tank troop leading?
You give yourself a guarantee that you will be in better position than a grunt when war comes to home.
This used to be the SSC which was similar to the described. It allows individuals understand the army and the army get to know you. You then decide to go further then you need to go back to sandhurst for commissioning course after university . In my time in the TA you still needed to do the training for officers but you were already commissioned. However you better not fail….You need to remember that in the conscript training the bootcamp was about 4 to 6 weeks before speciality. As individual it allows you to mature, gain work ethics for whatever you do later and if you go to university stand in good stead. And you get paid…..always useful as student.
By "conscript training" I take it you mean National Service 1947-1960. if so you might like to know that training for infantry was 10 weeks basic training at Brigade depot, followed by a period of 12 weeks recruits cadre at the regimental depot before joining their battalion (sometimes the period at Depot was spent in a training platoon at HQ company level).
I dont think they are paid anything to do this I am from old school OTC TA and Regular Commission Short service and then back to the TA this just looks sloppy to me for both the person and the army maybe its good PR after all we are talking about it
I am a white male so this propaganda doesn't apply to me.
Yeah there was no white men in this video
This is a great idea.
Infantry female Rupert would never be seen in para reg unless she was getting nailed in the block 😂
There are female ruperts in the paras...
🤣 you total mug, there is a female Platoon Commander in the Para Veg.
She completed RMAS, P-Coy and PCBC.
She is second lieutenant?
What’s wrong with that
And I’m sure this will give the BA the cream of the crop NOT hahahahhahhahahahahhahahahahhahahaha
❤ good 👍
Well done. My years of Canadian service 1967-96. Reserve Infantry & on to Regular Armour. Great friends. Interesting challenges. Sadly successive governments failed to keep up with equipment. Hard to do right by your country & allies when successive governments don’t care to maintain a military. Yet, one does make lifelong friends.
8 wk course…it’s called basic training for soldier, won’t get respect of other officers or ground troops…it’s just to get people in under different rules
That the same length as all reserve officers unfortunately
Love our new woke army 🤮
This should be a required entry qualification for any Uni
You want everyone who goes to uni to have done a years intern commission? Just how stupid are you? There simply aren't enough positions in the armed forces to fill nor is there the capacity to send everyone to do the 8 week short commission course.
Quite frankly an idiotic idea presented by a bigger idiot.
Why? Absolutely stupid comment.
Garbage, 8 weeks and she's supposed to led a infantry platoon into combat, will get people killed
She doesn't lead anyone. She's an intern - doesn't have direct command over anyone. I'm not entirely sure what the purpose of it is, but she will return to uni for another 2 years before she decides if she wants to complete Sandhurst
If you listen to the video you will hear that after this if they go either full time or part time they still have to do the full training. the 9 weeks is just for the intern year. There is no indication thet they will lead an attack in a real fight.
Better than a civvie during a draft - stop bitching
We need a massive expansion of conventional forces.....Not part time wokesters
imagine this woke garbage going against russia
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Good to see the Army still doing back wrecking wheelbarrows.