Week 4: Driver instruction Part 1

Week 4 was pretty easy, not much physical work but a lot of theory outdoors while it was SNOWING. For heavens sake, its mid of April, and its snowing??!?!?!? I didn’t have any problems that there wasn’t much physical work in schedule this week, but this...

Week 2 & 3

I know i know, i didn’t update my diary for quite a while now. All those of you that were already in the army will understand that i was just sleeping and sleeping and sleeping during the weekends… Well, below you can find what I experienced the last...

Week 1

Now, my first week in RS is over. I’m dead! it felt like i was already 5 weeks there. Here a short resume of what i can remember… Monday, 20.03.06 14.00 Entry of the Army-Area. I got directed to one of the halls where I was sent to a group of about 25...

Thank You

Just a quick thank-you to everyone that celebrated the funeral of my civil life. It was a cool evening! @die chris: don’t worry about the sound, i heard worse 😉

Preparation for Recruit school

Well, this is the first article for my army-diary. I could not find much useful information on the RS on the internet, so i decided to create a diary of my RS and sum up some of the highlights and things that every recruit should know. As not everyone speaks english,...

Goodbye civil life

Yep, you’re right. After i got the Swiss passport, I have to join the Army. I know, I didn’t write anything about the recruitment, i’ll give you a quick resume of what happened. – October 2004: I finally get the Swiss citizenship and can apply...