HOW and WHY you should join the British Armed Forces in 2022 | British Army, Royal Navy and RAF 

nice!

Thanks ❤️

Awesome man, how did the briefing go ? Looking to go Harrogate In September I assume ?

@@KyleSmithFIT Briefing was great thanks, and yh that's what I'm hoping for!

Umm if you haven’t heard anything I could call your local recruitment office mate. Be proactive 👍🏻

Nice one mate, good luck!

For the Royal Navy?

Go to the Army website and hit apply mate follow the process, once you have signed up you will be contacted by the careers office and they will take care of you from there.

Umm probably all very similar to be honest. Might get some better qualifications in the RAF but I’m not 100% sure.

Anywhere from 4-6 weeks normally mate. You should receive a message In your portal when they have got your documents and then they will inspect it from there. Good luck 🤞

@@KyleSmithFIT hiya mate took them 3 days to review and it’s all clear thank you for your help👍👍

@@ethanoneill4643 that’s awesome mate, congrats. Good luck with the next steps 👍🏻

I am guessing you are going British Army ? If so, the IQ test is a cognitive test, nothing to worry about at all. It’s more of a reasoning test, if you ask your recruiter they can normally give you some to practice with. Apart from that there is not much out there to prepare. The better you do on this the more jobs you can do. Math test is called a technical selection tests this is only required if you are going technical roles, it is a GCSE level paper and you can study for that on the internet. Just type in GCSE Math revision/mock tests. Hope this helps, don’t worry too much 👍🏻

it is illegal to do IQ tests in the UK (it is after all, some sort of biological discrimination), but dont worry about the tests. The army teaches you how to do everything, it is the great equalizer. Doesn't matter if you join the enlisted ranks at 16 from school or 26 after uni, you all start knowing nothing about how to soldier. Good luck!

Yeah on most occasions you get to choose, I believe in the infantry you do not get to choose.

So what if you want to be a driver ? Any idea ?

@@spencer4248 yes you should be able to choose mate

Make sure you know what you want to do in the military, be honest and confident. The rest should be pretty straight forward, nothing to worry about 👍🏻

Not straight away you have to still do all the necessary things, I think it takes around 5 years

I don’t work with recruitment anymore so I couldn’t tell. You best bet is to call the national recruitment office or try call a careers office in the UK.

Invitation letter for what mate, to start training ?

@@KyleSmithFIT I'm Commonwealth applicant I'm waiting just for my invitation letter to enter uk. My career advisor said me there’s still ongoing restrictions. For face to face medical my dear mate.

Not sure mate, there has been no details for a while

From the 1st of April, I was in a call with the army guys and it was a common question

@@ReganJH2 They confirmed that it's going to be on the 1st of April? or they're just speculating

@@gamecomp2489 a lady asked the question “ive been training for months now when are they going to accept commonwealth” and the sergeant said something along the lines of, we’ve got a quota to reach each year, we have to recruit a certain ammount of commonwealth applicants and we have filled up for this year, the next recruiting year starts on April 1st so around that time we will look at sorting out and accepting new commonwealth applicants” Hope this helps

@@ReganJH2 Ok thank you very much for the info

I believe it is you have to be in before your 29th birthday for officers so 2Lt and 32 for solider so private it should be on the website. You can join the reserves much older though I think it’s in the 40s

@@KyleSmithFIT what does it mean as a reserve?

@@k.o6715 you are basically part time

@@KyleSmithFIT Is that just the difference?

@@k.o6715 well there is a lot of differences, far to much to type out.

I’m not sure about Indian, check the British army website but yes English is important you will have to do a basic English test I believe.

Commonwealth nations have been an integral part of the British military for centuries, the British Indian regiments we're 2nd to none in the efforts of the battle of Singapore 1942. Any commonwealth national can join the British army, restrictions apply to certain roles. Patel, I respect and thank your interest in service to HM forces.

@@billywells3675 how can I apply can you tell me please?

umm, normally criminal records only affect you joining for a period of time, this obviously depends on what you have done. The medical problems may affect you joining but this is something you can get medical evidence to help you appeal.

@@KyleSmithFIT you in the army like

@@gympro234 nope not anymore. Left in 2017, I work closely with the armed forces careers office in my current role.

@@KyleSmithFIT ADHD hard to get in like and only got signs of personality disorder and got injury to my arm from weapon got ake on my left arm so that might stop me from joining as well cause was only 1 year ago still healing

@@gympro234 best thing to do is apply mate, see what they say. Won’t do any harm to try 👍🏻

7 years in the forces its self, and another 5ish years working with recruitment to get people in the military. So about 12 years of experience seeing how the military positively impacts people’s lives.