Too old? > United Kingdom

Posted: 2/17/2009 1:05:30 AM EDT

Thought I'd ask before here before I took myself down to the careers office, anyone know if the Army are even remotely flexible on joining ages?, I'm 34 soon to be 35 & wondering if I can still get in the Infantry?, it's a long shot I know

Posted: 2/17/2009 1:23:01 AM EDT

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Thought I'd ask before here before I took myself down to the careers office, anyone know if the Army are even remotely flexible on joining ages?, I'm 34 soon to be 35 & wondering if I can still get in the Infantry?, it's a long shot I know

Max age for infantry recruits is 33

You can join the TA, they're practically regular army these days

Posted: 2/17/2009 2:48:11 AM EDT

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Thought I'd ask before here before I took myself down to the careers office, anyone know if the Army are even remotely flexible on joining ages?, I'm 34 soon to be 35 & wondering if I can still get in the Infantry?, it's a long shot I know

Max age for infantry recruits is 33

You can join the TA, they're practically regular army these days

mate of mine joined the TA 18 months ago and he was 40yrs old

They'll take any old shit these days

Posted: 2/17/2009 4:05:31 AM EDT

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Join the TA - See Afghanistan!

Posted: 2/17/2009 5:37:48 AM EDT

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Max. age 43yrs unless you have a specialist skill they need. Ex-regulars up to 52yrs.

This was from their website.....................I was over the age limit and quoted special skills but they said 'no you just have special needs'.........

Posted: 2/17/2009 10:01:39 AM EDT

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I don't know about now, but when I was still in the Infantry, 27 was the max age, I know for other jobs in the Army it is a 30 something age limit. Just give the careers office a ring, they should be able to tell you off the top of their head.

Posted: 2/19/2009 3:12:47 AM EDT

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I don't know about you lot, but I joined when I was 16, and did ten year's, now at 40+ I dodn't want to start worrying about passing BFT's and CFT's, and as I'm finding out (the hard way), old men don't heal as well as young men do.

Tony

Posted: 2/19/2009 3:15:17 AM EDT

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I don't know about you lot, but I joined when I was 16, and did ten year's, now at 40+ I dodn't want to start worrying about passing BFT's and CFT's, and as I'm finding out (the hard way), old men don't heal as well as young men do.

Tony

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