My mornings used to consist of someone turning the strip lighs on in our 8 man room and shouting at us to get outside to walk around and pick up cigarette ends in the rain before scoff lol.
Look at getting an "FM Bluetooth Transmitter" for your car. They are about £10-£15 and allow you to connect your phone via bluetooth to your car no matter what radio you have as you just tune your FM radio to the same frequency as the transmitter. Instant Bluetooth for your car. What I did for about 5 years
These activities listed above probably make better soldiers, as opposed to attending Skype meetings, listening to podcasts and eating porridge. This woman sounds like a middle manager at a software company, not a warrior prepared for war. The monologue at 3:18 onwards proves my point.
@@kennethnoel1257 From what I remember in the 80s in Germany we did morning runs sporadically, especially after leave. Most times it was just drinking & shaggi g whores. Depending on the Regiment of course but generally there was a lot of boozing going on.😄
I have the same issue with my car, so I got a Bluetooth adapter sort of thing that goes into your cigarette lighter. It’s the best thing I’ve bought because there’s only so much Radio 2 I can stand
Gonna explain what she does. ? We had no choice up 05.30 and getting balled at, then tidy barracks, check boots, hopefully not scuffed. Check lightweights and ensure crease on epaulettes. I started an O type engagement before RCB . Cushy number or what !!
This was a 6 month role in the recruitment and mentoring team. Effectively a 9-5 office job. Usually I’m either on shift 0630-1830 or on operations/exercise.
@@ChelsieAngeles I am sure things have changed dramatically since my day, our unit was an RAOC unit now I believe RLC . We still had PT most mornings , scoff, then inspection, then a full day. With early finish Friday up the unit club. Good luck in your military career 👍
In the early 1950s,when we were called up,it would be out in PT kit at 0500hrs, after that ,sworn at ,to get inside the spider and be out again in full battle order,before we had even got inside.That was just the start of a day for 16 weeks.
So much about this has surprised me - up at 5 past 8 (thought it was all 5am PT up a hill type thing); living on barracks but still commuting (I fully assumed the whole point in barracks was that it was basically a live-in office so your commute would be 10 steps haha); just how much admin there is (but I guess that's the thing with a HR role). It'd be great to show some colleagues in future, if you're allowed and they're willing, as it seems quite lonely to me, but I'm sure it's anything but! Thanks for your insight, it's quite valuable to dispel some myths!
It really does depend on the trade and rank. There’s plenty of opportunities now to do short term roles (this was 6 months for me) that are similar to a civvie street job whilst being in the military. I don’t think people realise that because you typically only get shown all the “war fighting” elements. For sure have plenty of colleagues but don’t like to put them on camera - definitely not lonely!! The military is 100% what you make of it!
Hi Chelsie, with your education, personality and drive has it not been suggested you attend RCB and go for Sandhurst? You are a lot smarter than some of the officers I served with (including myself ha ha) Great vids for those thinking about the army as a career. Best Regards Clive.
Hello, just wanted to ask a few questions. I have served in the RAF full-time for a full year then had to leave because I failed the aptitude test to transferred into a different role. I been thinking about joining the army reserves but I'm still not sure. Would I have to redo basic training? And the roles I been thinking about doing are, Gunner, driver or infantry. What are the phase 2 training like for reserves? Thank you for your service and best of luck for you and your career 👍 🙏 😊
@@danielwhysall6560 If you are a Gunner you might get a driving licence if MT. I did 4 years in the RA as a Gun Bunny on the M109. I could drive a Gun but not a Car...haha After transferring to a Corps I got a driving licence straight away & about 1 year later my HGV 2 So if really want to drive don't join the RA or Infantry Go RLC...was the RCT in my days.
I am guessing RMP stands for Royal Military Police? I also saw that red MP patch on your uniform. Pretty cool. I am currently serving in the US Army as a Military Policeman. USA🤝UK
Are you FTRS or did you transfer to regs? See you're in the block but commuting so assuming accom is provided in your role, but didn't realise that came with a FTRS role!
Everyone applies via the British army website and is recruited through their teams. In this role, I was there to support them through that process and give insights about the RMP.
ive come from your assessment centre video that was done years ago, forgive me if some of these have already been answered; but did you end up becoming a reserve medic? and I read on your about on profile that your military police now? are you still and is that reserve or full time because you said full time but are you working from a reserve base and in RMP do you do policing duties? Thanks
There’s different roles within the military that keeps the cogs going. Can’t all get thrashed everyday of your career as that’s not sustainable or operationally effective.
So is being in the army now just like having any other job but in a uniform and having accommodation paid for? Seems cool. Are you obliged to fight in the event of war?
Yes still have to “go to war” if the event arises. But there’s definitely scope to do office based roles in the military that are similar to civilian jobs, with the perks of being paid to exercise, cheap housing, food, good pension etc!
@@connorlee5873 Exactly food & accommodation...plus her waffle about a good pension...they rip you off. I was supposed to get mine at 55 now the b@stards won't pay it until 60
@@coreybright9839 do you mean can they be deployed to other countries/conflicts? If so I think RMP’s can as I did see and met a few out in Iraq in 2003/2004.
Thought this was day in the life of a soldier. So why did you spend half the day in your room not actually doing anything and talking about other stuff that has nothing to do with soldiering
What exactly is it that you think the army is? Do you think it is all infantryman running around with rifles? If it were, they wouldn't last 3 days in combat. All Soldiers are trained in basic combat tasks in case they are either attacked, or need to be used as provisional riflemen or guards should a shortage of infantry arise. There are dozens if not hundreds of support roles that are required for a military force to function properly. For example, I am a United States Army Reserve 88N Transportation Management Coordinator, my role is to plan, oversee, synchronize, and track transportation movements of personnel, weapons, vehicles, and other equipment across the world via military line haul, rail, air mobility assets, or military sealift command and Army watercraft assets. This can put me anywhere at the Brigade level in a briefing room with senior officers, all the way down to a Convoy Support Centers or field Movement Control checkpoints. I can be anywhere from a desk behind an office, to a truck depot, railhead, port, or flight line, or even in a tactical convoy or in a foxhole behind my rifle. Granted my job field only has about 1,000 Soldiers in it across the Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard so we tend to 'get around' more than many other support roles, but the fact remains that if it weren't for troops serving in my role, no personnel or equipment could get anywhere it was needed, and what good is a battalion of infantrymen if they have to swim halfway across the world to get to where they are needed? Despite our role, my unit has seen combat, in fact US Army logistics personnel received arguably an equal if not greater level of contact than many combat arms units, because why attack a well armed infantry unit when you can go for their more lightly armed support troops and by extension defeat the former when they run out of food, water, and ammunition a few days later. I am trained to accurately engage targets with the M4A1 Carbine at varying distances in multiple firing positions with backup iron sights and the M68 Close Combat Optic, how to use M67 Fragmentation Grenades, as well as the M320 Grenade Launcher, M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, M240B General-Purpose Machine Gun, the M2A1 Heavy Machine Gun, and the Mk19 Automatic Grenade Launcher, as well as perform various basic tactics and battle drills such as squad attacks, squad retreats, react to indirect fire, platoon attacks, platoon retreats, L-shaped ambushes, patrol base operations, entering and clearing rooms in urban combat, and tactical convoy defense with crew-served weapons. The vast majority of the time, I will only ever have my carbine slung over my back if at all while performing my job, but if the need arises I am ready and trained to defend myself, Myself and the other support troops are no less Soldiers than anyone else, but our role is largely different from people like Infantrymen, as it should be. Even if one's main role is not performing combat operations, their job still involves hardship and personal sacrifice, they directly support combat operations if not actively participating in the fighting, and at the end of the day, if the neeed arises, they are able to drop what they are doing and fight, and many thousands have, and given their lives in support of their nations, those who survived, still signed up with the will to fight if necessary, just because one is not combat arms, does not mean they deserve less respect.
What does the Army think of you doing this? I'm a civilian but wouldn't dare produce a video like this about my work without having it thoroughly vetted and approved by my employer. As a military employee I'd have thought there'd be security restrictions. I guess you don't show us any specifics (unless someone's a REALLY fast lip reader on the video of your team call!). Still, I expect that what the news these days calls "hostile foreign actors" probably have their algorithms and AI analytics models trawling social media for posts by service personnel searching for any little audio or visual bit of intel they can glean. I was joking about the lip reading but come to think of it with what facial recognition software and AI can do it might actually be possible. Anyway, interesting video. Thanks.
Even the team call was staged after I took the call. The Army is pretty progressive now and understands the benefits of showcasing what we do in a safe way online, which is great.
You are clearly a highly intelligent and capable individual, have you considered transferring to the Intelligence Corps? Square peg in a square hole...................🤔
She is in the Military Police but doing a temporary assignment in a recruiting role, you do realize there are far more support and sustainment personnel required to keep a military functioning right? In most militaries there is a ratio of 1 combat arms serviceman to every 3 support servicemen, in some it can be as high as 1:8 or 1:10.
I am sad to say that you are much less than the men and women that have gone before. you have an office job and are not a soldier in any way. I was junior leader and completed 14 years I trained with RMP [m Bovinington and they would be disappointed
There’s many roles in the military (and always has been) that aren’t 100% focused on “soldiering”, yet they help keep the army alive. The lack of understanding of this is astounding.
You clearly had no knowledge of or respect for the majority of the forces then who serve in hundreds of different support and sustainment roles to keep the combat arms troops in the fight. As a member of the British Army she is a Soldier as any other. But I'm sure you could have done it all without any support from logistics, medical, signal, admin and the various other support units, given that they aren't "real Soldiers" to you. That is, at least until you had no supply support, and no transportation to get you and your equipment to where they were needed, and no medical treatment if wounded, or minimal communications infrastructure, or couldn't get any pay or other paperwork done, among a myriad of other things.
My mornings used to consist of someone turning the strip lighs on in our 8 man room and shouting at us to get outside to walk around and pick up cigarette ends in the rain before scoff lol.
Same here good times, what regiment were you in?
And with the high cost of living you might find a durry with enough to re light 🤣
@@jackhewitt600 Royal Green Jackets
Look at getting an "FM Bluetooth Transmitter" for your car. They are about £10-£15 and allow you to connect your phone via bluetooth to your car no matter what radio you have as you just tune your FM radio to the same frequency as the transmitter. Instant Bluetooth for your car. What I did for about 5 years
In the 70’s by 0800 you’d have done a 5 mile run, washed and shaved, breakfast and Pl parade.
🥱... actually you were just getting in off the piss then you probably lagged your bed 💦
Who cares, it was the 70s
These activities listed above probably make better soldiers, as opposed to attending Skype meetings, listening to podcasts and eating porridge.
This woman sounds like a middle manager at a software company, not a warrior prepared for war.
The monologue at 3:18 onwards proves my point.
@@ClintThrust-e8r she is an RMP 🤦🏿♂️😂
@@kennethnoel1257
From what I remember in the 80s in Germany we did morning runs sporadically, especially after leave.
Most times it was just drinking & shaggi g whores.
Depending on the Regiment of course but generally there was a lot of boozing going on.😄
Very best wishes Chelsie and thank you for your service 🙏
I have the same issue with my car, so I got a Bluetooth adapter sort of thing that goes into your cigarette lighter. It’s the best thing I’ve bought because there’s only so much Radio 2 I can stand
Gonna explain what she does. ? We had no choice up 05.30 and getting balled at, then tidy barracks, check boots, hopefully not scuffed. Check lightweights and ensure crease on epaulettes. I started an O type engagement before RCB . Cushy number or what !!
Military police not sure her exact role
@@trevdestroyer8209does doing sweet FA count as a role?
This was a 6 month role in the recruitment and mentoring team. Effectively a 9-5 office job. Usually I’m either on shift 0630-1830 or on operations/exercise.
@@ChelsieAngeles I am sure things have changed dramatically since my day, our unit was an RAOC unit now I believe RLC . We still had PT most mornings , scoff, then inspection, then a full day. With early finish Friday up the unit club. Good luck in your military career 👍
@@keenymeeny2
Blanket stacker
Lost me at 5 past 8 haha
In the early 1950s,when we were called up,it would be out in PT kit at 0500hrs, after that ,sworn at ,to get inside the spider and be out again in full battle order,before we had even got inside.That was just the start of a day for 16 weeks.
im guessing that was training though
So much about this has surprised me - up at 5 past 8 (thought it was all 5am PT up a hill type thing); living on barracks but still commuting (I fully assumed the whole point in barracks was that it was basically a live-in office so your commute would be 10 steps haha); just how much admin there is (but I guess that's the thing with a HR role). It'd be great to show some colleagues in future, if you're allowed and they're willing, as it seems quite lonely to me, but I'm sure it's anything but! Thanks for your insight, it's quite valuable to dispel some myths!
It really does depend on the trade and rank. There’s plenty of opportunities now to do short term roles (this was 6 months for me) that are similar to a civvie street job whilst being in the military. I don’t think people realise that because you typically only get shown all the “war fighting” elements.
For sure have plenty of colleagues but don’t like to put them on camera - definitely not lonely!!
The military is 100% what you make of it!
@@ChelsieAngeles Nice! Very inciteful. Really enjoy the series, look forward to future eps :)
When I was in the US Navy an 18 hour day on a ship was normal.
How the Army has changed,out of bed at 08:05 hrs really!!! I'm guessing not regular Army.
Well, times have changed - and not for the better! I served in the sixties. A very different and better army I feel.
Depends on the role. This was a 9-5 office based role so I could get up later. If I was policing on shift, I’d be up at 0500!
Thanks for showing us your day. Cool didn't know you were on the recruitment side. How long have you done that?
It was a 6 month role!
She was up at 08:00hrs? What's that about, what's happened to the 06:00hrs bugle call?
Thanks for serving in the Crimea because I think bugle calls for reveille haven't been used since that era.
@@simonh6371 they were in my regiment it was traditional. So what do you know?
Great Experience.... thanks for sharing Chelsie 😊
08:05 Alarm? thats half way through the day! i always knew hats needed more sleep 🤣
Hi Chelsie, with your education, personality and drive has it not been suggested you attend RCB and go for Sandhurst? You are a lot smarter than some of the officers I served with (including myself ha ha) Great vids for those thinking about the army as a career. Best Regards Clive.
Haha thank you. I’ve considered it but it’s not for me!
Hello, just wanted to ask a few questions. I have served in the RAF full-time for a full year then had to leave because I failed the aptitude test to transferred into a different role. I been thinking about joining the army reserves but I'm still not sure. Would I have to redo basic training? And the roles I been thinking about doing are, Gunner, driver or infantry. What are the phase 2 training like for reserves? Thank you for your service and best of luck for you and your career 👍 🙏 😊
Makes no sense, what you said about leaving 🤷♂️.
@@johnnunn8688 my mistake, I failed to the aptitude test to transfer to a different role. Apologies for the confusion.
@@danielwhysall6560
If you are a Gunner you might get a driving licence if MT.
I did 4 years in the RA as a Gun Bunny on the M109.
I could drive a Gun but not a Car...haha
After transferring to a Corps I got a driving licence straight away & about 1 year later my HGV 2
So if really want to drive don't join the RA or Infantry
Go RLC...was the RCT in my days.
I am guessing RMP stands for Royal Military Police? I also saw that red MP patch on your uniform. Pretty cool. I am currently serving in the US Army as a Military Policeman. USA🤝UK
This is a different army to what I joined in the 80’s. Working from home, what’s that about??
Are you FTRS or did you transfer to regs? See you're in the block but commuting so assuming accom is provided in your role, but didn't realise that came with a FTRS role!
I was mobilised so it came with that!
I seriously doubt you have done the full RMP training and I would guess you have never dealt with an angry situation.
What is the highest rank you can achieve in your current role?
Please make video on how to join british army from india
Couple of questions
Regular or NRPS?
Can you recruit civil police?
what is it like to be in the army I have always tried to sin up
Do people apply directly to the RMP or do they need t go through general Army recruitment first?
Everyone applies via the British army website and is recruited through their teams. In this role, I was there to support them through that process and give insights about the RMP.
Basically you work in recruitment, except without the pressure of targets, while wearing a funny outfit.
ive come from your assessment centre video that was done years ago, forgive me if some of these have already been answered; but did you end up becoming a reserve medic? and I read on your about on profile that your military police now? are you still and is that reserve or full time because you said full time but are you working from a reserve base and in RMP do you do policing duties? Thanks
Ended up being in the infantry for 2 years, transferred in 2022 to the RMP. Been pretty much a full time reservist since. Going regular in early 2025!
Glad I'm not in the army anymore after watching this, it's about as challenging as putting your socks on....
There’s different roles within the military that keeps the cogs going. Can’t all get thrashed everyday of your career as that’s not sustainable or operationally effective.
Blinking heck that’s late 08:05 am you’ve not joined the RAF have you without telling us lol 😂.
Hate to laugh 🤣
@@ChelsieAngeles hahaha 🤣
Waiting for my assessment day I’m just nervous on the beep test how do you prep for that
Do the test dummy
Go to a local running track or whatever & mark it out
Shuttle runs up and down
@@connorlee5873Yh I already passed assessment day I start next year jan
But when will you defeat russians and hamas?
Imminently 🇬🇧💪🏻
Can’t wait 😝
Which regiment are you ?
RMP!
So is being in the army now just like having any other job but in a uniform and having accommodation paid for? Seems cool. Are you obliged to fight in the event of war?
Yes still have to “go to war” if the event arises. But there’s definitely scope to do office based roles in the military that are similar to civilian jobs, with the perks of being paid to exercise, cheap housing, food, good pension etc!
@@ChelsieAngeles
Good Pension? They rip you off
Was supposed to get mine at 55 but they changed it to 60.
Accommodation isn't paid for its comes out of your wage 😂
@@connorlee5873
Exactly food & accommodation...plus her waffle about a good pension...they rip you off.
I was supposed to get mine at 55 now the b@stards won't pay it until 60
These "In the 70's we would have fought off a bear and killed a crocodile with a toothbrush in our sleep" comments are so rattled XD
Great video, thanks!👍
What reg you in Chels? - Super cool content btw 🫶🏼
RMP! Thank you
@@ChelsieAngeles just wondering do you deploy or are you solely based in the UK?
She’s in the Royal Military Police (RMP).
@@coreybright9839 do you mean can they be deployed to other countries/conflicts? If so I think RMP’s can as I did see and met a few out in Iraq in 2003/2004.
@@Jib230181 I know rmp can but I was asking about Chelsie's role as a recruiter.
Chris Martin thanks you for your service!
British English hard to understand for Indians...😅😅
Anybody would help me to speak like English native speaker...
Thought this was day in the life of a soldier. So why did you spend half the day in your room not actually doing anything and talking about other stuff that has nothing to do with soldiering
Not every role in the British army is focused on ‘soldiering’ every day. Many different roles that keep the army functioning.
@@ChelsieAngeles not for long
What exactly is it that you think the army is? Do you think it is all infantryman running around with rifles? If it were, they wouldn't last 3 days in combat. All Soldiers are trained in basic combat tasks in case they are either attacked, or need to be used as provisional riflemen or guards should a shortage of infantry arise. There are dozens if not hundreds of support roles that are required for a military force to function properly. For example, I am a United States Army Reserve 88N Transportation Management Coordinator, my role is to plan, oversee, synchronize, and track transportation movements of personnel, weapons, vehicles, and other equipment across the world via military line haul, rail, air mobility assets, or military sealift command and Army watercraft assets. This can put me anywhere at the Brigade level in a briefing room with senior officers, all the way down to a Convoy Support Centers or field Movement Control checkpoints. I can be anywhere from a desk behind an office, to a truck depot, railhead, port, or flight line, or even in a tactical convoy or in a foxhole behind my rifle. Granted my job field only has about 1,000 Soldiers in it across the Regular Army, Army Reserve, and Army National Guard so we tend to 'get around' more than many other support roles, but the fact remains that if it weren't for troops serving in my role, no personnel or equipment could get anywhere it was needed, and what good is a battalion of infantrymen if they have to swim halfway across the world to get to where they are needed?
Despite our role, my unit has seen combat, in fact US Army logistics personnel received arguably an equal if not greater level of contact than many combat arms units, because why attack a well armed infantry unit when you can go for their more lightly armed support troops and by extension defeat the former when they run out of food, water, and ammunition a few days later. I am trained to accurately engage targets with the M4A1 Carbine at varying distances in multiple firing positions with backup iron sights and the M68 Close Combat Optic, how to use M67 Fragmentation Grenades, as well as the M320 Grenade Launcher, M249 Squad Automatic Weapon, M240B General-Purpose Machine Gun, the M2A1 Heavy Machine Gun, and the Mk19 Automatic Grenade Launcher, as well as perform various basic tactics and battle drills such as squad attacks, squad retreats, react to indirect fire, platoon attacks, platoon retreats, L-shaped ambushes, patrol base operations, entering and clearing rooms in urban combat, and tactical convoy defense with crew-served weapons. The vast majority of the time, I will only ever have my carbine slung over my back if at all while performing my job, but if the need arises I am ready and trained to defend myself, Myself and the other support troops are no less Soldiers than anyone else, but our role is largely different from people like Infantrymen, as it should be. Even if one's main role is not performing combat operations, their job still involves hardship and personal sacrifice, they directly support combat operations if not actively participating in the fighting, and at the end of the day, if the neeed arises, they are able to drop what they are doing and fight, and many thousands have, and given their lives in support of their nations, those who survived, still signed up with the will to fight if necessary, just because one is not combat arms, does not mean they deserve less respect.
This is not a soldier this is a civvy in uniform
Nickelback, Bon Jovi and Avril Lavigne? We must be similar ages. Great choices XD
beautiful girl. from now I love British. 😂
What does the Army think of you doing this? I'm a civilian but wouldn't dare produce a video like this about my work without having it thoroughly vetted and approved by my employer. As a military employee I'd have thought there'd be security restrictions.
I guess you don't show us any specifics (unless someone's a REALLY fast lip reader on the video of your team call!).
Still, I expect that what the news these days calls "hostile foreign actors" probably have their algorithms and AI analytics models trawling social media for posts by service personnel searching for any little audio or visual bit of intel they can glean. I was joking about the lip reading but come to think of it with what facial recognition software and AI can do it might actually be possible.
Anyway, interesting video. Thanks.
Even the team call was staged after I took the call.
The Army is pretty progressive now and understands the benefits of showcasing what we do in a safe way online, which is great.
@ChelsieAngeles I suspected it might be. Still good to know and hear that there is that balance. Good luck with your career and your channel.
Military police arnt soldiers there just army grasses
We're doomed 😂😂
You are clearly a highly intelligent and capable individual, have you considered transferring to the Intelligence Corps? Square peg in a square hole...................🤔
if ur body feels like its fat sluggish and slow u need to do chi che or very slow controlled yoga very slow
Ex 1980 squaddy.
Would i join the British Army now no ,
French Foreign Legion i would definitely consider
Team meeting over Skype? WTF?
No teams, the military is progressive now we use teams, WhatsApp and other social media. But we have only just learnt how to use a mobile phone
❤❤🇬🇭
What happens in Nazi Sex Spies?
Off you go, sweetheart!
Get in that Ukrainian trench and fight!
Day in a life of a British soldier… very questionable title, Your MTP is the only green part of your career
She is in the Military Police but doing a temporary assignment in a recruiting role, you do realize there are far more support and sustainment personnel required to keep a military functioning right? In most militaries there is a ratio of 1 combat arms serviceman to every 3 support servicemen, in some it can be as high as 1:8 or 1:10.
a recruiter!🤬 and here I thought you were a good girl!🤬
The Barracks Are 1 and a half hours away????wtf why aren't you on base?
She's working in a city recruitment office
Isn’t the army being called in to London and other cities to take control
This is so far from a normal day it’s bollocks and not realistic
leave the army and come date me east london
I am sad to say that you are much less than the men and women that have gone before. you have an office job and are not a soldier in any way. I was junior leader and completed 14 years I trained with RMP [m Bovinington and they would be disappointed
There’s many roles in the military (and always has been) that aren’t 100% focused on “soldiering”, yet they help keep the army alive. The lack of understanding of this is astounding.
You clearly had no knowledge of or respect for the majority of the forces then who serve in hundreds of different support and sustainment roles to keep the combat arms troops in the fight. As a member of the British Army she is a Soldier as any other. But I'm sure you could have done it all without any support from logistics, medical, signal, admin and the various other support units, given that they aren't "real Soldiers" to you. That is, at least until you had no supply support, and no transportation to get you and your equipment to where they were needed, and no medical treatment if wounded, or minimal communications infrastructure, or couldn't get any pay or other paperwork done, among a myriad of other things.
You do realise she has been mobilised to work in recruitment full time for a 6 months or a year 🤔 😂
I don't normally leave poor feedback but I found this embarrassing
FFS… is this what the British Army has become?
Your a reservist?
Yes reservist!