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It is official!!! Get your documents n requirements in place..... See you on the other side

I know I said NDA z now easy, but bear it in mind, that's the prestigious ACADEMY. STANDARD must be maintained. They're worse things than physical abuse/punishment once you're on someone's radar (CADETS n INSTRUCTORs) so.....
1. Don't assume
2. Don't malinger
3. Don't show emotions
4. Of course you can't even talk back....but, if you think you're the strongest man in your village n you think you have something to say, PLS don't say
Las las, in a group of 10, there must be a JUDAS, na Since that one dey .... Don't be the JUDAS in that 10....you might not get away with it.....
Wishing you all that made it the best in ur trg....bear in mind .....NA MUMU dey pass out

Very good input Stringz. Good one sir

Anyways, it's just gonna be backyard Malice.... CADETS now are seeing too much peace at the ACADEMY, thanks to the COMDT....
There's a saying now...EVEN UNN hard pass NDA😀

Dannyhonda:
Army Dssc training list is out, goodluck!!
Bad news- you are training at Afaka loool

Walahi!!!! AFAKA.... They'll nearly DASH... Those REGULARS n THEM...OH MY MAMA

This man...ur medical comments funny gang
Nice one with acquainting us with the step by step process

MrSuama:
Candidate, below is the standard sequence for some years,

Documentation
On arriving the venue of the interview, some Officers are stationed to do documentation for each state and you will be giving a tag number( a blue apron with your state code and number). For example, your name on the list might be 1st but you were the 15th to arrive interview venue and you are from Kaduna, after documentation, you would be given a tag number randomly, say KD56. It is with this KD56 that you would be referred to any time your attention is needed. Documentaion usually happens on the first and second day of screening.
Credentials Vetting
The screening and vetting of credentials begins on the second day for those who arrived early on the first day. This is where the Officer vetting your credentials would check age disparity on your certificates, forged documents, fake certificates and so on, this takes another 2days or so.
First Moment of Truth
After the completion of the credential screening, the Selection Board sits and candidates with discrepancies beyond army's reasoning are called out with their state codes, marched to the their tenth or hostel, where they pack their belongings, then they are escorted with tight security out of the screening venue like thieves who have come to still the mandates of their village men.
Medical Examination
If you successfully scale the credential screening, the next hurdle is the almighty medical examination. Here the army have the ability to see ailments that are hereditary in your family. They also have the ability to see ailments that no other hospitals can see. Infact, they have the ability to see your potential to develop some ailments. Candidate, army can say you are positive to an ailment and immidiately you are sent home, you decide to go to Natioanl Hospital Abuja to recheck yourself only to find out you are negative to that ailment.(Children of serving and retired Generals sometimes find themselves in this shoes)
Candidate only the will of God can make you scale Medical Examination. Below are some of the things you would be checked on
a. Bp
b. Eye sight (short and long sight)
c. Flat foot
d. Number of testicles( you would be unclad infront of the doctor female or male as the case may be and you would show her how many testicles you gat)
e. Pile: while unclad, the doctor would ask you to cough strongly like 2 to 3 times, then you would be asked to turn your back. After that the doctor would ask you to bend down to touch your toes, so that your anus can be examined for the presence of pile.
f. Urine: Urine samples are also collected to test for some ailments am not sure of.
g. Blood samples are also collected to test for HIV and a host of other ailments am not sure of
h. Height is also measured to ascertain you are within the range
i. Teeth check
j. Hernia check
k. Tatoo check
l. ECG
m. Chest X-ray
o. Fasting sugar (diabetes)
And a host of others i can seem to remember. The medicals lasts for like 5 to 6 days.
Second Moment of Truth
After the medicals have been concluded for all states, the Selection Board converges again and the candidates unfortunate to have been detected to have one ailment or the other are called out. Usually, the calling is alphabethically. so you here, candidates if you here your number fall out. The tension in the atmosphere at this period is unexplainable. Who no go, no go know.
The affected candidates are marched to their tenths to take their belongings and excorted to the gate of the venue under tight security.
3.2 Km race
After the medicals, candidates are made to run the 3.2 km race under 15 minutes. After the race, candidates are grouped in cages basesd on how they arrived. in time past, the race was also used to disqualify candidates but things have changed. It seems candidates are no more disqualified based on their inability to comlete the race within 15 minutes.
If the army decides to use the race as a disqualifying round, the ladies are allowed to start the race 3 minutes earlier than the males and when the 15minutes elapses, the gate of heaven is closed. Anybody outside the gate of heaven is marched to his hostel under tight security to pack his belongings, then excorted out of the training venue.

I think this is the farthest i have been lucky to reach in all the screenings i have attended.
I also skipped the Pschology test that comes during the medicals or after medicals where you would be asked questions that if you lie at the begining you must lie to the end.

Note: every screening comes with its own modifications. Other officers are free to make corrections and additions to this piece.
And I wish every applicant who made the list the very best.

Dannyhonda:
Well for Dssc, it is still 3.2km and I heard the way you guys were treated. During my own screening, the people that came early slept in the open and It was cold while the time I came slept in a canopy just that na hard floor I sleep cause no bed until the day rain scatter my canopy lol. Some people were sleeping in the bathroom, toilet etc. You said it all sha

Mehn! I heard....guess my set was lucky cos we don't encounter d rain

Good afternoon gentlemen in the house. Stringz1 has done justice, lemme just chip in a bit.
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Now, I dunno bout DSSC screening process but I gotta say 'ZERO UR MIND'.
During my time (SSC screening), I've been practicing for 3.2km race, couldn't even mk it (cos I'm no athlete), but when I got to FALGORE, we heard that we'll be running 20km (mind u it's timed) morning n 5km evening. Now, the only inspiration I got was my mind was made (go hard or go home). First day my body nearly gave up but, it didn't.
When you eventually mk it to training, pls open ur mind n heart n train (nobody is trying to kill anyone but to transform you to a finely crafted officer, with bearing n highly disciplined). I promise you one thing, you'll be impressed with yourself...
...n lastly, if you're joining d svc to come mk money, well, you'll be disappointed....at first.....that first fit be like 3-5 years so, just zero ur mind

What course are you, sir

Stringz1:
Alright, so I won’t be able to give full details but I’d give a simplified version of what training looks like.
After we successfully completed screening, we were asked to resume 2 weeks later or thereabout. I had to quickly source for money to buy the basic things like salala and white vests and Garri plus sugar (very important).
My first day, I got to kaduna with an 8am flight. I got to the academy around 9am but I couldn’t go to the sport complex because I developed cold feet. The shouting and “maltreatment” of prep wingers to candidates made me very scared. I almost went back home but home was too far away. I didn’t think I could survive so I hung around with a friend at the Mami market. He encouraged me to leave when it was 6pm and I was still scared to go. After plenty encouragement, I asked myself what will my father say of me? What about the people I told that I was going to join the Army? I gained courage and joined up. That was the beginning of the longest day of my life. I had to carry my heavy bags on my head (rookie mistake) don’t ever carry heavy bags. Find a way to make your burden light. Carry only what you can hunch with cos if you carry overload, you will nearly di.e.
After all the shouting and running to get documented into platoons and company, I made a terrible mistake. The NCO asked what’s inside this carton, I said “should I open it for you to see”🤡🤡…like a proper clown, he called one of the meanest prep wingers to “carry this clown”… I forward rolled the entire length and breadth of the football field twice with kicking and shouting from the PW. That white got condemned immediately. I moved to another prep winger, she was pissed that I was a giant (it is an offence to be extremely tall or built on the bigger side)…she gave me 500 hunches, my legs almost gave up. Worthy of note, buy canvas with “chin gum sole and at least one size bigger than you”. You will be squatting on your toes a lot and this can cause your legs to get bigger and wider. After doing the hunches to get satisfaction, we were driven to the candidates village where the sorrow started properly.
We were all required to carry our bags on our heads and hunch for about 300meters or thereabout. Now I had two bags one on my head and another on my back. Gentlemen, I cried cos my legs were properly heavy and someone was hitting me with scorpion stick. (Just manage and maneauver but don’t get caught)…I had to say that I hadn’t broken my fast (Ramadan period) so I was allowed to drink water but I finished up the extreme sport that night. We were allocated bed spaces with names and buckets and beddings. I finally saw my bed…lmao… they wheeled us out again to suffer for coming late cos we think they’d have lost strength…I did 3man carrying while going up and down on a leg that was already on fire. Gentlemen, that night was hell.

We were allowed to go to bed around 0100hrs only to be woken up by 0300hrs for Jikapa. (This soon became our daily routine). Every day till the last day of prep wing.

We started going for drill lessons, weapons handling, general service knowledge etc. you’d think the mental classes will cause ease in the physical drilling, na lie, instead it got more intense. There were nights we completed 700 push ups and 1000 sit ups just because 🤧

Then came “Night of power” these involved people who were culprits all through the day time for one offence or the other and people who failed to complete their push ups and sit ups during night putee. I used to be a regular customer in “higher echelon” cos I was not physically strong enough at the start (I got properly strong after sha) …this particular night, I had been cut from my squad as usual for coming up late during push ups. I got to Join up with other culprits this particular night and we had the most malicious instructors present, water and pebbles inside iron buckets only meant one thing… “the Angel of death is here”
Next thing “press up everywhere and X your hands”. I started reading Hail Mary cos once you hear the voice of your saviors being the one serving the job, you know it’s going to be a long night. Long story short, after suffering that night somebody dashed and one person fainted (this was what saved the rest of us)…we were released around 0200hrs since 2300hrs of the previous day 😩😭 (this was the day I knew that it’s not Army work that will kill me). Scorpion stick broke on my head this night 😂…it’s funny now, it wasn’t funny at the time.

You will suffer properly as everything is designed to test you and push you to the limit.

You’d pretty much do this for the during of orep wing, but you’d learn the rudiments of being a military person, posture, poise, confidence, test of annoyance etc
You’d learn everything you need to know fast during this phase.

Ofcourse I can’t tell you everything here. These are just general stuff.

After prep wing, those who passed drill square test will be allowed to start wearing their uniforms and that’s when you start feeling like a part of th academy community a bit.

You start going for exercises and practicalizing the theories you’ve learnt.

One thing you can’t take out of whole exercise is thag it mentally prepares you for the worst state of anarchy and disorganization…it helps you to be able to focus in spite of chaos around you. Quick decision making and not just making decisions but making t right decisions and putting the best with whatever situation you find yourself. Making the best out of you no matter t he circumstances

Bottom line is who no go no go understand

Where r these guys on Leadership n Regt course? Abi no NL?

I cannot install ths game.....all I'm seeing is assetpack.apk.... what do I do

Na so I stand wait for MOD Abt 10 months ago... Congratulations to the PASSIN OUT CADETS....
INSHALLAH we'll all meet in the NE...

Obinnasvg:
Live

ASHANTI Bn. Yellow bars choke �

To all NL that made their way to FALGORE, I wish you the very best...couldn't wish earlier cos I was on course at SERTI...(una go reach dia too when time come), just keep a positive mind, go through your trg with high morale and pass out strong....then I'll salute una one day as snr colleagues whr una go be.....
Victory is from God Alone

Walex29:
No bro, rather we met the likes of Lieutenant Bello Aka Oh my mama, Major Iliya Aka Chucky, Colonel Nnaji Aka You have all failed lol

Hahaha....Colonel Nnaji.....wow.....He made his way to Falgore....
A very Packard Armoured Offr.. that man stress me n my cse mates eh!

MUTERIKA:
can't wait to experience mine.

InSh'ALLAH you'll experience it

Someone rightly said... Currently, SERTI loading...

....
So in Sept, the Comdt wheeled us to Jaji for a one month intensive CT-COIN trg (that ófe we blew), well this was the best thing that happened to us cos, after that trg, our lives transformed drastically (we became cracked, stubborn, fearless.... Baby gorillas). The trg ended, we came back, only to be doing katikati n ofecious bush camps, excess PT, cross country, obcs, you name it.. Finally exams then break...in Dec, sometimes in Dec, the CBC rolled us to AFAKA on a job parade, very funny, mehn, we gave those terma 4 headache. With the new Comdt, nothing was certain so, all our prayers was to go for camp HL cos that's the only determinant that one's ready to pass out. In Jan, all preps pointed to that dir. In a jiffy, camp HL came n went, POP rehearsals ffd suit (rehearsed in AFAKA), drill instructors on directives on the adjt nearly took our lives. Our problems as cadets came to an end in the 26 FEB 22, when we filed out of that parade grd....11 months trg that seemed like forever finally drew the curtain.
To God be the Glory

Good morning fam... Hope y'all are okay

2Ways:
I thought the SSC duration is 6 months?

But going by what you wrote there it's 9 months Sir.

Sorry officer

9months is d actual duration, my course did 11

2Ways:
Let me pretend as if I understand what you wrote shaaa.

Lol

So, training commenced on the 6th of Apr, 2021 at Ribadu cantonment with confirmation of credentials, medicals n contraband/kaya checking, after which our names were called out to us n coy as well, I was in Tamando coy this happened at the DRILL SHED. Thereafter, we were taken to our various coy by prep wingers (mostly 3rd termers). D first Job bought was the Sunday that follow... what really happened: It was specified we to come with Suit BT no specific color so, imagine what followed... Well, I went with black suit but, no black tie so I bought it too...Service was organized for us defaulters at the Ante room after which d Job ffd (well, we survived d day)...subsequent Jobs ffd.. Mehn, prep winging ain't a good thing...we were wearing white vest n black trousers as Clowns..(all my salala wasted)In no time, we conducted drill sq test, those that passed were at liberty to wear camp. I didn't pass at first so, I'll be wearing white n black while some of my course mates were on CAMO, I wasn't a good feel. D 2nd test was conducted, it was at this stage I passed, d 3rd n 4th too subsequently. In no time, we started field ex, bush camps, obstacle crossing n very importantly PT. One Saturday, we were told we'll be going on a 3.2km race...we ran from the PG sch to VARMA gate n hunched back to PG sch, it was as if that was d day most of my course mate wud die but, that was even a tip of the iceberg compared to what our eyes saw in subsequent times...well, we survived d hunching...some, with damaged legs. There was always this cmon question asked when a great feat is achieved...'Do you think you've done what Napoleon hasn't done'...Sometimes in May, we went for Camp Initial (the first bush camp) @Jaji....all camps, we usually dash back so...we dashed back... with our rifles.... My Coy came first..Then camp Sabon yaro...a good camp too...Sometimes in June, activities choked up for us cos speculations were we were to pass out with RC 68, we had the cross country competition that June, my coy came first..In July, we had d obstacle crossing competition, Colito came first...It was in that month that our troubles started...A new commandant assumed office n thought he wants to see us train so, the training period was extended because he wasn't impressed with the obstacle crossing competition. Well, he was lenient enough to give us the 3-day midterm break...this was July 17 (that day was my birthday . So we went for break happy because it was assumed we Will resume without prep wingers (NDA- No Definite Arrangement). We resumed with prep wingers....that night a general puttee was issued in case there was some misbehaviours...that's culture of NDA...

P.S.: More to come

Sure will

I thank God for seeing me through the 10months intensive TRG n a successfully executed POP...n thank you all FAM for the reliable info always given on this thread on commencement of application, as you've been there for me, I'm also here for you. God bless

wow... this thread is gonna encounter traffic today....... lemme go find a warden

Chai odimbannamdi....very organized writeup... I was lafing my intestines out... then decided to scroll down n see d photo of the man photo only to see RIP clearly....
A gallant man has paid his dues
R I P Maj. Abdul

Keep the thread alive folks!!! We should

TheCDS:
Chillax Sir, ur blood too boil lol.
DSSC just finished na...But hopefully March y'all will resume... What is currently been processed in rush at Army HQ is that of the SSC...

Just finished?! Their own na 1 week? e fast ooodem no run 60km b dat

Ok.....guys..... This is my contribution to the thread on the manifestation of events durin SSC course 47 screenin

Got to Falgore at exactly 11:32 AM, that place is one heck of a forest (no network)....(for d dssc guys, mk photocopies of ur docs -photoforms -school cert<pri, sec, tertiary>, origin, birth cert, bvn. One copy is enough). Documentation n issue of chest no. commenced right away. (You'll be stayin in tents so, kit up to fight cold... Any color of shoe n blue(jersey short) is allowed but, u must wear the stated requirement to face d board). After documentation, verification was carried out,( this will also contribute in elimination), then medicals (blood pressure, physical test <pile, flatfoot, dental, hernia etc>. Those with severe BP level were singled out, then, the almighty race commenced. We started with 10 km, then the next day, 20km b4 major gen j-boy suggested 30km (that evening, 5km was introduced). Sm days later, eviction kicked in...those With severe BP and over-aged candidates were sent home(this was saturday morning). Another set of 20km n 5km was carried out...also, somwhr along d line, the second wave of medicals commenced (blood test, ECG, urinalysis, xray)..….On the fateful morning of thursday 28th Jan, the result for that medicals was announced, this sent a lot of guys packing. Later that day, the aptitude test was written (in 3 paragragh, introduce ur family bckgrnd, ur course of study and how ur course can assist the military) (who won d last US election, name of operation carried against insurgency in northeast, official name of the training ground, name of army chief as at the time of exercise commencenent, meaning of AU etc). After that, a psycho exams was written, which we still later went for an oral psyco Exam (jst formalities). Then on friday, being today, we faced d board (i was asked to introduce self by d board chair, then offbook questions by board members, then, how my course can assist the army by the board chair), after that, i was at liberty to pack my kaya, then bade falgore goodbye

Hmmm, good advise new Delhi, but na u wan tell dem wetin to do with their lives? focus on urs

Oh mehn....our officers to be don go xmas oooo. Thread silent ni....
Someone brought an idea of sending in questions from the test in order to obtain an ideal 'past question'...is it still in play?
Good morning

Zeus1905:
Oga dey can't hold screening on 25th or 26th Dec.

But d candidates must be present on or b4 27 for d 2nd batch so, .....it's still d agenda....but noted