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The minimum age at which he could apply is 15 years and 9 months, so his application could easily start now. It's highly unlikely that he would be asked to go away and come back later; he sounds like a mature and capable 16 year old anyway.

There will be big gaps which he might not expect during his application, as the individual components - psychometric test, medical, pre-joining fitness test, interview - will be spaced out a bit to fit in with the longer waiting times, so it might seem as if he is going away and coming back later, but 16 year olds are enquiring and being given test dates and I see no reason why your son shouldn't enquire and sit the RT too. I would recommend going in to the AFCO in person, by the way.

PS I hope that that helps a little bit. What Ninja has to say will probably be more helpful!

Originally Posted by soleil

PS I hope that that helps a little bit. What Ninja has to say will probably be more helpful!

Thank you very much Soleil, I'm obliged to you

I would say that he would probably get more out of the RN if he could wait until he is 18 before joining his first unit. There are some pressures floating around not to deploy under-18s, which may frustrate him greatly. However, as most of the AB2s in my watch took in excess of 2 years to join, he should (r should) be fine.....

It also depends on whether he's doing surface or submarines, as the submarines have a much shorter waiting time

Originally Posted by Mike777

It also depends on whether he's doing surface or submarines, as the submarines have a much shorter waiting time

Going by the AW in the title I reckon general surface


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Originally Posted by tommo

Going by the AW in the title I reckon general surface


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