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Let's get this rolling, can't find the answer for this anywhere, but after your first Seven weeks of the miliarisation phase, unless followed by Christmas, Easter or Summer leave, do you get to return home?

Can someone explain what MARL, and the other assessments are as well?

Thanks

PO according to th BRNC pack they send you just before you join you get a "long weekend" off following your passing in parade at the end of phase 1. No details on how long a BRNC "long weekend" is,(3 days probably) but in just 8 weeks from now i will be able to confirm this first hand. Providing i don't break myself or wash out that is.

BRNC?

Britannia Royal Naval College, like your Navies Annapolis .
NZB

oh fun, the naval version of sandhurst.

just what we need, another ring-knocker

Originally Posted by Jarhead

oh fun, the naval version of sandhurst.

just what we need, another ring-knocker

Not quite - fortunately we do not have the equivalent of an ROTC programme and therefore we manage to escape the elitism that I have sometimes seen in the US Officer Corps.


(this is submitted for information, I know you were being tongue in cheek....)

Originally Posted by silverfox

Originally Posted by Jarhead

oh fun, the naval version of sandhurst.

just what we need, another ring-knocker

Not quite - fortunately we do not have the equivalent of an ROTC programme and therefore we manage to escape the elitism that I have sometimes seen in the US Officer Corps.


(this is submitted for information, I know you were being tongue in cheek....)

BRNC encourages an 'all of one ship' outlook. We don't suffer from the US-style frat house mentality/cliquism in our civil universities either. Not necessarily better, but certainly different.

Originally Posted by Naval_Gazer

Originally Posted by silverfox

Originally Posted by Jarhead

oh fun, the naval version of sandhurst.

just what we need, another ring-knocker

Not quite - fortunately we do not have the equivalent of an ROTC programme and therefore we manage to escape the elitism that I have sometimes seen in the US Officer Corps.


(this is submitted for information, I know you were being tongue in cheek....)

BRNC encourages an 'all of one ship' outlook. We don't suffer from the US-style frat house mentality/cliquism in our civil universities either. Not necessarily better, but certainly different.

I would go a trifle further and suggest that as the RN developed into a regular service in the post Elizabethan era it progressed down a path where in general (there will always be exceptions) it considered that officer selection should be based on ability rather than class. Commissions were rarely purchased and whilst up till the institution of naval colleges midshipmans billets were in a ships captains gift they were as often awarded to the sons of respected warrant officers as they were to the sons of the gentry.

As for the present system, though my experience dates back a bit now it was then very much a unitary officer corps, there were no second class citizens, some of us though as one might expect were bigger pratts than others. There certainly are no 'fraternities' or secret societies operating within the system. The only ring I have ever worn is my wedding ring and the same goes for every other officer I have known.