On 13 May this year it will be 33 years since I joined the RAN. I remember my time at HMAS Cerberus and particularly the ‘mud run’ with fondness! Thanks to the POPT who thought I was too clean half way through the mud run and called me back to stick my head in the mud! I also remember trying to get my Volley’s white again after the mud run...I don’t miss kit musters! Such a challenging and exciting time for a 17 and a half year old boy. I wish I could do it all over again. My recommendation is, while at Recruit School get stuck in, take it seriously, it will be over soon and enjoy it. In years to come you will reflect fondly, realise how much you learnt and how much you grew as a person in just a few weeks.

@hasanfoyejul5500

5 жыл бұрын

@Cam F "17 and a half year" long colorful years & lot of memories/experiences! would you please share some of it with us? if you don't mind at all.thanks

@nightwlf7710

4 жыл бұрын

Recruit school was quite the experience, most of the boys in my intake ended up throwing their volleys out because they were stuck a greyish shade 😂

@johndallis9901

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service sir

@450tank

2 жыл бұрын

I was at Cerberus. May 1989 GE56 . Rankin division. 4 to a room, Chief Petty Officer MTP Bell was the Divisional Officer. If our beds weren't made properly the pillows, and sheets would be thrown out the window. If someone in our class stuffed up in any way our instructor would make us run around the base, while he rode a bike beside us. If they did those sort of things to recruits today they would be sued. Kit musters, i'm sure i got a lot more than anyone else. When we left recruit school and went to other accommodation there were two senior sailors in charge of the block every night. A certain two senior sailors would hit the piss when they were on duty, give us a hard time when they were doing rounds, start arguments with people and have them charged.

@I_AM_ALL_THAT_WAS

Жыл бұрын

Thanks mate. Appreciate it. 🇦🇺

I know what it means to be a true sailor, I am proud of my service to may country and all the Royal Australian Navy mate's i met during my Vietnam service!

@kid-tc6ny

4 жыл бұрын

Richard Wooster thank you for your service

@thejollygoodrodger8465

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you for your service sir. EX LS RAN.

@georgebill1885

11 ай бұрын

Thank you for your service mate!

In 1977 arriving at recruit school the first words I heard was, Get off my F……. Bus and line up

i know it is really hard work and all but this looks like a whole lot of fun. can't wait for my turn

@elizabethbennett899

6 жыл бұрын

Zeejay L Are you joining the Australian Navy? I hope to join soon 😎

@joshuawilli4ms

6 жыл бұрын

how’s it going so far

@PHONiX_Au

4 жыл бұрын

How was it

@zeejayl752

4 жыл бұрын

@@PHONiX_Au a LOT of hard work. sometimes i enjoyed the experience other times i wanted it to be over. but overall it was a rewarding experience

@PHONiX_Au

4 жыл бұрын

@@zeejayl752 I'm glad you got through it, are you still serving?

Gee I remember my training down at Cerberus recruit school for 3 months in 1990, it was a really good memory. Thought it was going to be much harder physically but I had a blast with all my new shipmates. Great experience for a young man, thanks RAN 👍 P.S and I still know how handle an iron very well 😅

Charlie Thomson Tony Standish this reminds me of some of the stuff we endured as 15 year olds at HMS Ganges especially being made to jump off the olympic standard high board whether we could swim or not. My Grandson joined the RAN

I fondly remember my time at recruit school, it was a lot of hard work and fun times with mates you make for life. Best tip what ever physical level they say you need to go in, double it, it will make your life there a lot easier if you do. i struggled bad with fitness and was really far down on fitness level, they get you through it though, be prepared to push yourself. Great trainers and great leaders If i was 20 years younger and a healthy man i go through it all again.

Love the opening titles. Hello Navy circa 1984!

Ahhh I remember square gateing across that parade ground, good times

@NoName-ds5uq

3 жыл бұрын

Stop squaregating! 🤣

@thejollygoodrodger8465

3 жыл бұрын

First and second knuckle! Get in step! Holy Snapping Duck Shit Recruit!

I received goose bumps. From this.

I'll see you next year.

Brought back some memories.

I would love to join the Australian Royal Navy it would be a 1 in a life time experience

I did this in 2003, hasn't changed at all except we wore white tshirts and navy pants

Looking to join the Australian Royal Navy Next

Nothing better than a day of DC

Someone needs to teach that Lieutenant how to salute properly.

This is the funniest thing I have seen in ages!

What happened to the pushups at the end of the high rope beam? our team go 68!

I went through GE125 (1995) we didnt have the high ropes and I have to ask, even now, WHEN on a ship are we going to be climbing over high ropes and on balance beams LOL

Punching to the front CHANGE!! 😂😂

actually looks pretty fun

Thought about the navy, but then I got an adhd and autisn diagnosis and now im medicated so there goes that plan lol

I hope to join soon, it would be really good, or finish uni then join, and when I’m done go on to do my degree

Was a good experience. Would do it all over again⚓⚓😂😂

Looks a bit different to when I went through in GE41, 1988! No survival suits for survival at sea, just a life jacket and jump in and swim to the life raft! Also no swimming test in an indoor pool, just a tidally fed pool. Oh, and the roof over the lower parade ground? 🤣😉 I should add that I’ve never had a better 12 weeks in my life!!!

@nghiabui7309

5 ай бұрын

1:11

@nghiabui7309

5 ай бұрын

1:20

@nghiabui7309

5 ай бұрын

1:27

@nghiabui7309

5 ай бұрын

1:33

Thinking about enlisting when I can in 6 years

I hope that I get in and can one day look back on this comment and write an update

I would love to join the navy or the ADF. My kind of job though my mum would never let me.....

I'm a fairly fit 47 year old male and I'm seriously considering joining the RAN. I think it would be an awesome experience and challenge to accomplish. I know someone in my age group isn't common when it comes to joining the RAN. I'd be proud as punch if they accepted me and I'd take the opportunity with two hands.

@FrogLover-nh3mu

2 жыл бұрын

Had a 49 year old female in my div, she was one of the fittest and did really well. To my knowledge she is still in after 3 years.

@Josh92SA

2 жыл бұрын

@@FrogLover-nh3mu Most roles require a minimum of 4 years before departing.

@solthegamer3769

Жыл бұрын

If you're still considering, the senior recruit division to mine had a 53 year old, you can do it!

0:43, have to Abe about the worst salute I've ever seen

So they get face to face combat training?

what about the direct entry for officers

How long did it take for the arguments to start in your survival at sea training.........🤣

I’ve been debating whether I should join the Navy or the Army, do you have to be good with knots to join the Navy? I’m not that competent with ropes so I feel like that’s a thing that’ll hold me back.

@wherearewe4x442

3 жыл бұрын

literally have to know 3 knots i recruit school and depending on your rate you probable never touch a knot again

@beyondbackwater4933

3 жыл бұрын

You are taught everything when you're in, they don't require anything like that. Navy is softer than army and recruit school compared to kapooka is nothing, however you'd probably do more deployments being in navy. Having said that being out at sea for a long time sucks and could wear you down mentally if you don't love it.

@kag2306

3 жыл бұрын

The army is the last service I would consider. Navy you sail, Airforce you fly but the Pongos, you walk everywhere unless can hitch a ride , if you can call it that , in the back of a hot, dusty and uncomfortable truck like cattle. You want a long rewarding cushy career, Navy anytime.

@egg-iu3fe

Жыл бұрын

in order the best branches are air force > navy > army. you'd be alright joining navy or air force with air force being the best one, but army on the other hand is the worst

Do you do NBCD at Cerberus now? We did ours during category training in 1998 spent a week in creswell.

@450tank

6 ай бұрын

NBCD was done at Cerberus when I joined in 1989. Firefighting was at Creswell. Damage control in Sydney. I was a stoker, posted on Torrens.

Do they do this in winter? You'd get hypothermia.

@silvershamrock5489

4 жыл бұрын

Yea it's year round

HMAS Cerberus Recruit School looks very tough.

@silvershamrock5489

4 жыл бұрын

Nah mate she's a piece of piss

@wherearewe4x442

3 жыл бұрын

@@silvershamrock5489 this guys knows

Looks like they have gone soft with the physical training.

You forgot to add in all the whinging and sooking that the recruits now do. Where was the; "I want my mummy, I want to call my mum, because you made me do 10 push-ups!".

I want to be the Australian defence force

@darktrooper7591

2 жыл бұрын

To join you need to be a citizen of Australia and have passes in year 10 mathematics and English, as well as other requirements but it all depends on the job.

@dhanvin5334

2 жыл бұрын

@@darktrooper7591 ok that Lowered my hope

Got training in 32 days can’t wait

@silvershamrock5489

5 жыл бұрын

You started trainin yet?

@Lightblue2024

5 жыл бұрын

Tommorow!

@silvershamrock5489

5 жыл бұрын

@@Lightblue2024 I enlist tomorrow aswell

@camf7522

5 жыл бұрын

Any updates on your progress?

@camf7522

5 жыл бұрын

Silver Shamrock any updates on your progress?

Hard hat

Musics a lil dramatic.

@jamesdryable

4 жыл бұрын

Ahha i thought that too

i went there my mum worked there navy base cerberus

@bsci01

4 жыл бұрын

to visit

i what to join the navy when iam 18

@maximusgoodwin6542

3 жыл бұрын

Mate do it when your 17

@klah2u

5 ай бұрын

Did you ??

Looking back at my life if I was to ever join anything at all it would've been the Navy because you leave your family and the worlds socio-economic standards behind for good. I would find that extremely boring there not "Male Requirements" and jealousy + saving lives is never a reason eg: got PB reached 2.68km in a 12min run and a much higher diving board childrens 8 metres at primary school.

Off to die for New York Bankers. 3 Cheers.

When my oldman went through in the late 50s early 60s, it was different to this easy crap. Also, apprenticeship training was real. Dont believe me? Talk to a survivor of the Voyager disaster. Men were men and women served at home. I HOPE my comment is not popular.

@SanctuaryLife

8 ай бұрын

Did you actually serve yourself?

Hahaha this looks so weak. Is it even part of the military?