25 Signs That You May Have Joined The RAF Regiment

Banter turned up to max in this 25 signs article. The elite RAF Regt get a lot of stick, and when they throw their teddies out of the pram,  it just makes it worse. Sure, they provide a valuable service. They allow the army to go and engage the enemy safe in the knowledge that the rear is secure. Good old boys.

If you heard the term “Rock Ape”, and thought it was something cool, but subsequently realised it was derogatory, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If wearing Wedgewood blue to work just isn’t manly enough for you, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If, at the end of your Airman Selection Test, your careers adviser gave you the choice of Gunner or Gunner, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If every other person, in a different job role within your service, and every other service, in every other military, thinks that you are at the bottom of the food chain, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If you spend most of your time guarding the cookhouse/NAAFI/crash gates but are still outranked by the MPGS, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If you never venture more than a stone’s throw from the confines of your base, except when supporting SAS/Spetz Naz/SEAL Team 6/The Thunderbirds/Flash Gordon/My Little Pony, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If you insist that the RAF Regiment is part of the Big 3, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If you haven’t realised that the Big 3 is the pre-Afghan T.A., pre-pubescent ACF, and the presumptuous RAF Regiment, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If you find that you do your job and get virtually no recognition from the media, other services, or even your own service, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If you find that everyone else in your service looks better than you do in uniform, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If you feel as though you’re valued even less than an armourer, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If your operational environment consists of sangar, gate, patrol, sangar, gate, patrol, sangar, gate, patrol, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If you think that you are infantry trained, but have never been to any British military establishment starting with “IBS”, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If you are painfully waiting for this list to refer to some viral video containing the words “toe to toe”, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If your idea of food on exercise is McDonald’s, Burger King, or KFC, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If you find yourself staring at pilots, airmen, and engineers, and wiping a tear away at the thought of what might have been, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If you suddenly notice that your shiny WMIK looks like it was just out of the wrapper, even though it has been in Kandahar for 10 years, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If you consider yourself to be an “elite” fighting force, but couldn’t fight your way out of a garden party full of old ladies, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If you do almost identical training to most army infantry regiments, and generally have a higher IQ, but never get the same respect, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If you enjoy gassing other members of your service, because they are obese, they are self important, and they earn more than you, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If you think that having attachments for your SA80 makes you feel like a real soldier, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If you can drink most army units under the table, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If you find yourself to be the cause for the world’s supply of banter on forum sites and Facebook groups, but never actually get involved in it for fear of losing face, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If you look at your MTP uniformed body in the mirror, and secretly wonder why you never had the balls to join the Girl Guides, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.

If you can stand toe to toe with the Marines and the Paras, because you too, have completed the Five Miler of Death, you may have joined the RAF Regiment.