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Old Mar 10, 2018, 04:28 PM
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I closed up like a clam when you asked if I was sure that I was intelligent enough for the career I was interested in . Did you expect me to try and over compensate for this and beg for you to let me in . No.
I did read through the training information sheets. There were places to practice your faith, and making plays to get to know your fellow trainees as well as assualt courses. I agonised over travelling to south of England for boot camp. I read each job specification.
But no holds barred you didn't like me from the very start. I didn't even bring up how I had trained alongside the British Olympic Squad. Another man in the office couldn't have been nicer and reassured me that he liked working in logistics.
I was crestfallen from the first comment about my intelligence and my heart sank. I passed the test. How a 16 year old knows about the metal that drills in open sea are made of is beyond me and not taught in school.
At the end I knew my heart was never in it. But I didn't expect to be told I had a weak looking upper torso, I wasn't as smart as I thought I was and asked if I was wanted to join up because I hadn't many friends.
I said that I did martial arts and I went jogging so exercised five to six days a week. Still you scrutinised me and asked if I do weights for my chest arm and shoulders. No and probably never will.
There was another girl who was applying for a second time. I thought on way out that I would liked to have told her she has nothing to prove and to run a mile.
At the end of the day I knew it was your job to weedle out who has and hasn't what it takes to be a soldier.
Your the most insensitive a$s hole special forces person I have ever had the pleasure to meet. But we all have a degree of prejudice.
Yes I was attracted to the camaraderie. I was at the stage where I was growing apart from my high school crowd. But I guess running away to Join up is at one extreme. My friend I met in hospitable did the same. She was told to come back when she had finished her degree.
I would not have lasted in hindsight. I would have needed to go back on my medication so it really doesn't matter. And it's fortunate that I did deploy my defence mechanism and close up like a clam .

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