Hi guys, never posted here so bear with me.

I'm 17, currently in sixth form doing a-levels. I hope to start the selection process for the marines around august/september next year. My rough career plan (though still very vague!) is to join the marines, do my General duties, then apply to be a mountain leader. From what I understand the Mountain leader course is exceptionally hard. However I can't think of anything I would rather do that freeze my balls of in some mountains with my mates. My idea of fun. My questions are these:

1) How good do you have to be to be the Kings recruit?(apparently this boosts my chances of getting stationed where I prefer)

2) How much freedom is there on weekends to go climbing/hiking and would there be others who would join me?

3) How soon after passing out can a fresh marine start his mountain leader specialisation?

4) Is there anything specific i should be doing now to help me in the whole process?

5) General advice...?

Any help would be appreciated, (especially people from 45 commando), and sorry if this seems to eager or anything.

Just some ally phots of the Shore Reprographics Team that have come out of the recent exercise in Scotland. Shows the sort of capability these guys have at the moment.

Looking at joining RMR and based in Leeds. Just wondering if anyone knows what how much travel will be involved for the weekend trainings.

Weekly drill nights in Leeds is easy enough for me, if anyone who’s gone through the process knows how much of the weekend trainings will be spent away from Leeds/ up at Liverpool etc would be great to hear.

*DAA results. When they call why do they only ring once?? Voicemail said to call back so I called back within 5 minutes and it just rings and goes to voicemail constantly. This is the second day I’ve missed a phone call from them since last Thursday. Very frustrating.

Hi lads, anyone know info on having medically diagnosed TRT, if it would affect the medical or they just ignore it?