F*ck!

**MikeL** · 16th February 2005, 20:25

Originally Posted by Indiana_Jones

can't remember of them I'm afraid lol

but it goes like this

DOCK - HAR......
USE - EMP

etc..

-Indy

Looks to me more like a vocabulary test than a spelling test. Can't see why navy officers would need to be able to spell, but it's probably useful to know a few technical terms like "harbour" and "starboard" and "rum" and "....
Better stop now...

**Indiana_Jones** · 16th February 2005, 20:28

Originally Posted by MikeL

Looks to me more like a vocabulary test than a spelling test. Can't see why navy officers would need to be able to spell, but it's probably useful to know a few technical terms like "harbour" and "starboard" and "rum" and "....
Better stop now...

I know, I knew most of the words, I just didn't spell them right which is an utter c*nt

I'm really fucked off

-Indy

**Yokai** · 16th February 2005, 20:30

Originally Posted by Indiana_Jones

I got 25 when I needed 30 for my crappy spellingtest for the navy, now they won't take me as an officer,anyways to bitch or sneak your way in? :spudwhat:

I really really want it.

-Indy

Yeah. there is. Go in as a gunnery rating. Gunnery ratings have the highest risk factor, but they also have the highest percentages that rise through the ranks. The thing is that the majority of gunnery guys are THICK... so you stand out if you are reasonably intelligent and if you can lead them, you'll make probsuble (midshipman / probationary sub lieutenant) pretty quickly...

I know it's harsh, but unless you are diagnosed dyslexic (do you know a good language therapist) then you're kinda stuffed without being able to spell correctly.

**Indiana_Jones** · 16th February 2005, 20:33

Originally Posted by Yokai

Yeah. there is. Go in as a gunnery rating. Gunnery ratings have the highest risk factor, but they also have the highest percentages that rise through the ranks. The thing is that the majority of gunnery guys are THICK... so you stand out if you are reasonably intelligent and if you can lead them, you'll make probsuble (midshipman / probationary sub lieutenant) pretty quickly...

I know it's harsh, but unless you are diagnosed dyslexic (do you know a good language therapist) then you're kinda stuffed without being able to spell correctly.

wait, if i can get diagnosed as dyslexic, then i can get in? cause i think i kinda am

-Indy

**Yokai** · 16th February 2005, 20:43

Originally Posted by Indiana_Jones

wait, if i can get diagnosed as dyslexic, then i can get in? cause i think i kinda am

-Indy

If you are diagnosed as dyslexic and the problem actually WAS spelling, then this is a mitigating factor. That said, it might not make a difference. But it WILL make a big difference in other areas....

**SuperDave** · 16th February 2005, 20:56

Start your own navy?

**Motu** · 16th February 2005, 20:56

Bugger the Navy - become an actor,a famous one...then you can be a sailor and fight in a war without getting hurt.Plus you can have as many motorcycles as you like and get the girls...hey,maybe even get to ride a bike in movies....

**Slingshot** · 16th February 2005, 20:56

What does YMCA spell?

**Biff** · 16th February 2005, 22:45

I applied and was accepted for officer/air crew training with the RAF.

Two days before I was meant to be sworn in I got pi$$ed and wrote off a car I was re-building in a fit of rage (bloody girlfriend kissed my mate, lucky for him I crashed on the way to his house after finding out), and had to be cut out by the fire service.

I was charged with no tax (rego?), no insurance (mandatory in the UK), no MOT (WOF), reckless driving, drink driving and possession of an offensive weapon (a knuckle duster). Needless to say that upon reporting this to the RAF recruiting officer on the morning of my swearing in, he looked me in the eye and said, "I don't think you're the kind of young man we'd like in the RAF".

I haven't looked back.

Chin up mate. Life deals some funny cards. You'll probably look back in 10 years time and thank the lord you didn't make it in. Quite possibly maybe anyway.

Did I really just tell you all that story? Fork, my missis doesn’t even know this!! Sshhhh, let’s keep it our secret eh?!

**StoneChucker** · 16th February 2005, 22:54

Originally Posted by Biff Baff

I applied and was accepted for officer/air crew training with the RAF.

Two days before I was meant to be sworn in I got pi$$ed and wrote off a car I was re-building in a fit of rage (bloody girlfriend kissed my mate, lucky for him I crashed on the way to his house after finding out), and had to be cut out by the fire service.

I was charged with no tax (rego?), no insurance (mandatory in the UK), no MOT (WOF), reckless driving, drink driving and possession of an offensive weapon (a knuckle duster). Needless to say that upon reporting this to the RAF recruiting officer on the morning of my swearing in, he looked me in the eye and said, "I don't think you're the kind of young man we'd like in the RAF".

I haven't looked back.

Chin up mate. Life deals some funny cards. You'll probably look back in 10 years time and thank the lord you didn't make it in. Quite possibly maybe anyway.

Did I really just tell you all that story? Fork, my missis doesn’t even know this!! Sshhhh, let’s keep it our secret eh?!

Sounds to me like you got off lucky. Had you made it to your "friends" house, I think you may have been up for slightly different charges. And, give it a break already, I said I was sorry - OK? (she WAS fit though, and I'm only human)

**Sniper** · 17th February 2005, 06:48

Originally Posted by Indiana_Jones

I got 25 when I needed 30 for my crappy spellingtest for the navy, now they won't take me as an officer,anyways to bitch or sneak your way in? :spudwhat:

I really really want it.

-Indy

I know how you feel mate. I failed my spelling test for officer in the Army. The best thing to do is put it behind you and either, try again or go in as (a) seaman.

I feel for ya mate, it is a big dissapointment when you find that out, never fear that, officer training sucks anyway

**Blakamin** · 17th February 2005, 09:53

Originally Posted by Sniper_CBR

I feel for ya mate, it is a big dissapointment when you find that out, never fear that, officer training sucks anyway

yeah, farqed if I'd do it... bro-in-law was RSM of officer cadets at Royal Millitary Academy in Oz a few years back... drill, drill and more drill....

**Sniper** · 17th February 2005, 10:57

Originally Posted by Blakamin

yeah, farqed if I'd do it... bro-in-law was RSM of officer cadets at Royal Millitary Academy in Oz a few years back... drill, drill and more drill....

Yea seen it done, been drilled ("not like that"

) But buggered if I could yell all day and then sleep at night.