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explosiveskull:
Abeg i no Sabi swim, Dem go teach us how to swim or should one go and learn it somewhere ,na why I run from Navy. I hate anything water.

Hahahah. Basic swimming is a most in any military Training, so lock off ur mind and learn before, cos My FRND who pass out from SSC 45 told me that he nearly die for pool, he Drink enough gallons that day....
So go and learn oo
Dssc or SSC

KODACK:
So how many then?

Does that mean the final list will be over 10 for DSSC

U know Medicals and How confident a candidate responded to Board determine the final list.

Prospect048:
it was even 50 I heard not 30. Please, when list will show. The anxiety mode no be here

Noooo.
For Dssc 50 is too much na, EC is on d way too.
SSC can be 40 plus. But Dssc is within 30 plus

Uwaomaokey:
Thanks for the admonishment, IMHO, I no dae do gra gra, at the bolded, for real, and who’s getting court-martialed?

Exactly you as a commander, if u loose command and allow enemy to cart away d weapons, u will be court martialed.
Mostly the soldiers are only to be asked about their personal rifles,while a commander is d one who sign all d unit weapons, so he will be held responsible to any tin happens to the weapons.
So be very carefull oo
BHTs have spoiled many officers future in this fight,
Some are aiming to reach Maj-Gen
But their journey terminates at Maj or Lt.Col
With strong prayers to Compulsory Retirement, if not Dismissed and jailed

ugo4u:
I guess you mean intake?
Me ma, hear about am that very week registration start but mostly na side talks from soldiers.

Okk. But it may likely be truth.
Cos I heard from a legit source, meanwhile let's wait and see...

ugo4u:
Many people don't know that soldiers are the backbone of any military in the world, the officer cadre are like the brain of the army. Las las when una dey inside bush those recruits have more battle experience more than you as an officer, like you said if you do oversabi based on graduate them go leave you make Bokoharam teach you lesson and if care is not taken you go chop court-martial ontop.
Moreover, I know many non-commisioned officers that have Bsc, MSc and even PhD.
There is an American movie "We were soldiers" the officer that led them to battle is an epitome of an excellent commander. Before they advanced into battle he addressed his troops telling them that bullets don't discriminate btw and officer and non officer. When the heat of the battle was too much, he regularly sorth advice from his sergeant who was way older than him and had more battle experience.
At the end he succeeded where others failed, though a movie there are many lessons to be learnt. The way e be some of us ehh!!! if them hang pip, people no go hear word again.

Civ Gen.Ugo how far.
I hear say dem don increase Dssc strength to 30 plus, did u heard some tin like that?

Prospect048:
my brother not even as pte soldier because you will have to salute the private soldier too while on training. I dont know what is wrong with some of us, there are lot of non commissioned soldiers that are with PhD already, so because you have one first degree, u think u are superior... Shior

That's it bro, Most of us think that being an officer is by wiseness or being a graduate, not knowing that is just an opportunity and Destiny, so if u are opportuned to be - don't use it and be prouding that it's ur Effort. Just do d Army work and think on how to help others with ur post

Uwaomaokey:
I pity us really, really I do. Person wey no go school, because ein first me dae Army go come dae flog me careless, person on normal I gallant pass. The thing tire me oh, all same I’ll endure, it depends if I’m willing to make a difference if I eventually last long enough to reach the decision making table. This is not a thing of “God help us” we go help our selves, hopefully I can’t possibly think am the only one with this idea.

Hmmmm. Just plan for good ahead of your career's, not to harass any body or to checkmate others just because they flog u while on training, the ones u said didn't go skul (NCO's)are d one to be training u in d field till u pull out from d job.
Even for battle field other ranks are the fighters, so don't go and be doing gra-gra, they will just withdraw and leave u with d enemies to fight with ur Pips.....
So mind d way u relate with them if at all u make it to be
[b][/b] Instructors are maint to train u neglecting ranks and appts, and u can't do them any thing after it. I.e ask of NASFS and hear how a Pte soldier will beat a major and ask him to crawl for d sake of training, cos no body will wear his Rank while on course. So u will be treated as d last Pte soldier.

SFcommander1:
Pls, who has an idea of the probable date for this year's screening. My anxiety no be here o. To sleep these days sef na war.

Oga kindly calm ur self and wait for it, Don't give ur self an Anxious BP. May be last week of d month to next month..

Mode9Juma:
If dssc list reach 30 per state that means screening go last morethan 2weeks

Army fit do it in 10 days for 50 per state....
And it will be done successful.

sameereinstein:
Please guys, anyone knows when navy will take recruit ratings? Or when do they normally do it? So that he can anticipate for it.
Asking for a friend over here

Navy Ratings Result for Training was just released, and the Batch A are to Report on 18/10/2019 and Batch B are to report on May 2020.
So ur frnd should wait for next one Around next year

preciousfuture:
Meanwhile, when is the list coming out?

I heard from a source that list can show 17/18 or 21 of d month.
So increase d prayers to make it......

explosiveskull:
If he was overage or couldn't be commissioned, why wasn't he allowed to go home or expelled?
Which rank was he as an NCO?

He was a Sergeant, and he presented NYSC exclusion letter, so he didn't make it to Board

LexyJay02:
The young beautiful daughter tho. Like Gen. Ugo rightly said, it's better we Prepare ourselves for the realities on ground. I think it's better not to join than later dessert.

Ooooh, This man we r together last 2 years when he hang his capt...
Suddenly heard that he is among KIAs in Metele 1st Attack.
RIP capt KH Kura

ugo4u:
Yes even military police officers are not exempted from frontline roles. I saw a fully armed military police officer charging at the enemies in one of the amateur video I saw.
Those wey no know wetin an MP officer look like, they're personnel that are on red cap and red arm band, that officer(Aide De camp) standing behind Buhari is an MP officer.

Hahahah, wherether DSSC oooo, Ec ooo, talkless of SSC and RCs, and those who think they have god fathers that can comot their names not to go and fight,
No Body is important oo, and also if its ur turn today, surely not tomorrow....
So if u don't want to fight, kindly forget NA

eclipsehemmy:
naso Army thing dey be.... You only know the range not exact date..... Either second week or third week..... Second week can always spill to third week... Na army

Oga u too good a beg, thanks for ur clarifications..

KODACK:
The General has spoken.
Fingers crossed, hoping for the best from God.

Thanks for the update.

Sai Doctor, Civ Gen.Ugo4u have said it. And I also heard from a source that d list will be out form 2nd to 3 rd week of d month.
So Help us Allah to be among..

ugo4u:
You can't resign, not after deploying their resources to train you, however you can desert( runaway) after three months your salary will be stopped, but desertion in Military is a serious offence if they mean you they will hunt you wherever you hide and jail you for a long time. It also depends on the circumstances that made you dash, cos you could be charged for cowardice that one na double wahala.
sojee can also throw more light.

You can Retire from the NA voluntarily but with genuine reasons, like being medically unfit.
Cos I remember some who faked their medical status as being unfit.
Also Desertion is a serious offence, is better to commit and be dismissed than to Desert.
So if u think you dont want to go a long way in d Army, kindly do not report for training when called upon.
Shikenan

KODACK:
I have been hearing that Army needs many people, how true is that.

I heard that Army currently has shortage of Captains and Majors.....how true is that..


cc: sojeee, ugo4u

Yes, the Army needed more young officers to cope up with the standard of Counter insurgency operations,there is shortage of young officers in d field, so more combatants will be Enlisted as I heard.

Gentleman d portal is closed

odimbannamdi:
Gentlemen,

Its been a while I commented here. I have been on the sidelines reading the interesting discourse and banters going on since registration began. It is impressive to see that our morale is as high as ever.

In my usual attitude of giving back to Nairaland, the community that has helped me achieve most of my professional/career feats, I want to drop a few nuggets culled from my attendance of the SSC course 44 and course 45 screening exercise.

1. Don’t burn those bridges: With the registration period over, a lot of lobbying is going on at the higher echelon and big men will assure candidates of making the first shortlistment. I repeat, even if your godfather is the COAS, don’t get your hopes overly high. It is not 100% sure for anybody. Go on and pursue the goals of your current career path, while you wait/hope for the best.

Apply for those other jobs, keep being serious with your present employment, write that certification exam, apply for that study program, pick that postgraduate form.

The first shortlistment for 2016 came out the week I was to purchase the Unilag postgraduate form, which happened to be last week the form would be on sale. When I saw my name in the list, I didn’t even bother buying the form anymore as I was so sure of making final list. But alas, I didn’t get in, and I also didn’t make that educational advancement I would have loved as well. I lost out on both ends

2. It is better to be overqualified: This is to our DSSC aspirants, most especially. Get those extra certifications, whether they were requested for or not, and as long as they are relevant to your course. The competition for DSSC is fierce and you need all the leverage that you can get

3. You are a soldier. Zero your mind: Whether you get in via DSSC or SSC, or you are a male or female, you are first a soldier before anything else. Insurgency, violence and terrorism is not stopping anytime soon. Read the news. So zero your mind and be ready for the worst as you embark on this journey

4. Passion is not enough. Is this really your calling?: Everybody attributes their interest in the Army to passion. Even I did. But trust me, it takes more than passion. It also involves it being God’s ultimate plan for you.

As you speak to the God of your realization regarding this journey every morning, appeal to Him to make it come to pass IF it is His perfect will for you. Otherwise, pray that it doesn’t work out and that He gives you the fortitude to move on, for your own sake and those of your loved ones. Apologies if I sound religious or sanctimonious, it just that I learnt a lot on this journey.

Let me indulge us

In 2016, I was evicted for having a flat foot, shortsightedness in my right eye and umbilical hernia. Read details here: https://www.nairaland.com/3319739/nairalanders-experience-army-ssc-course. Obviously, two of these defects are irreparable and a layman (and maybe a spiritual discerning eye) would have dismissed my military ambition based on them. But I thought they were just obstacles that I could surmount. So, in December 2017, under the encouragement of explosiveskull (brother, how have you been?) I went under the knife and repaired my umbilical hernia. I was ready for course 45.

In October or so, in 2018, course 45 form came out and I applied again. This time, I had very senior men strategically stationed to help me pull through. They all gave unflinching assurances of assistance. There were all indications that I was going to get in. You guys needed to see me at the airport, about to embark on the journey from Lagos to Abuja. My morale was roof-breaking. Signing was done at MS office, Abuja. Soldiers just dey pay me compliments as they thought I was a young officer, with my well-shaved face. From Abuja, I took off to NDA to report with very high morale!!

Barely 3 days into the screening exercise, on the night of the day we wrote our exam at Command Secondary School, NDA, I encountered a mysterious catastrophe.

We were on the parade ground, in the bone-chilling cold till around 11pm or so when we began filing up according to our states to go back to our hostels. Sergeant Dauda then ordered us to look around and pick up any dirt on the parade ground and dispose it off. Being from Abia state, Adamawa happened to be closest to us. A candidate from Adamawa state then picked up a PET bottle, and in a bid to dispose it off, he flung it towards me and it went straight into my left eye – my good eye.

The force was so much that I lost vision in the eye immediately. My life replayed before me in split seconds and I saw my loving family and fiancée, and colleagues at the office. I wondered how I was going to face them back home with one eye. I screamed and began begging them to take me to MRS, but the soldiers refused that an officer must sign for me to go for treatment. Sgt. Dauda thought I was pranking. He even gave me a dirty slap across my face for shouting, but when light was shone on the eye and saw it, he shouted. Two of my good friends had to hold me by the hand and led me back to the hostel as I am severely short-sighted in my right eye. I refused to look in the mirror at the hostel coz I knew the sight would haunt me forever. But people who saw the eye said my eyeball rescinded and my conjunctiva was blood red and sunken

That night, I couldn’t sleep. I wept like a baby. The Army dream didn’t matter to me anymore. I just wanted my vision back.

It was until the next morning I began to see little flickers of light. But I had now become acutely short-sighted in the affected eye because of what I later discovered to be an inflammation of my optic nerve due to the blunt trauma I suffered, plus my pupil was severely dilated that I was very photo-sensitive. My friend had to give me his sun-shades to protect the eye from light. I was in excruciating pain. For those of us who began course 45 screening from day 1, you will remember a big guy that wore dark shades the morning we began medicals. That was me.

So that morning we began medical screening and we were taken to Afaka in that long bus. Godfather was on ground to waive my flatfoot and blood pressure (which had now developed because of the incident). But they gave me some drugs for my eye and directed me to return the next day so that they will conduct screening on both eyes

The next morning, there was little to no improvement in the eye, plus I was now feeling very sick because of the pain I was passing through. I just couldn’t go on with exercise anymore. I needed to treat my eye before I lose it completely. So I dropped a note for the board that morning, carried my kaya and left NDA by 5am. I first went to National eye centre or so at NDA bypass, from there I returned to Lagos. Senior men are still angry with me, that I am a runaway cadet…lol.

I suffered that period and spent a lot of money trying the treat the eye. The eye has improved, but it is a little smaller now than the other one now; the pupil is still dilated, and I have to wear sunglasses when the sun is scorching and I occasionally see flashes of light from the corner of my eye. The eye consultant said I could be at risk of retinal detachment, but I pray it doesn’t deteriorate to that level. Amen.

In retrospect now, I think the Military wasn’t my calling at all. I was just being desperate, under the guise of passion, even though I was not doing badly in my civilian life. God placed those physical impediments (flatfoot and shortsightedness) to deter me from the career path, but I was very hellbent so He let that very mysterious incident happen to me. The question I kept asking myself was

- Why did that bottle hit me on the chin or forehead or nose or just somewhere else? It went straaaaaight into my eye. My eyelid wasn’t scratched one bit. Just straight in my eye
- Why did that incident happen a night to medical and not the next day so that I would at least do my eye test and move on?
- Why didn’t the bottle hit me in my already weak eye (right eye) so that the eye test would be done on the good eye and it will be assumed that I am shortsighted in my right eye because of the trauma?

Many many questions rampaging in my mind! But I suspect that if that incident hadn’t happen, I would have encountered a worse one during training and maybe on the job itself.

Before now, I doubt I ever pursued an ambition as resolutely as I pursued the Army ambition. I was not even up to the minimum age when i applied in 2016. For 5years of my life, I lived, breathed, dreamt the dream. I don’t exactly have regrets, I just feel sad that it ended the way it did.

In all, I have come to appreciate my life more.

Again, I apologize if I scared anyone. That wasn’t the intent of this tip. The aim is for you to do a lot of soul-searching as you embark on this journey

5. Move on. It is not the end of the world for you: In the next couple of weeks and months, the Army shortlistment will shatter a lot of hearts. The heartbreak will be worse than the one your first girl/boyfriend gave you, especially if you reached the final stage of the interview with high hopes but did not make final shortlistment. But try to move on, It is not the end of the world. Better things await you.

Finally, as I drop my pen, I want to render a heartfelt appreciation to Ugo4u. The benevolence of this young man transcends beyond the posts he makes here. His nature is just kind-hearted. I was stressed when I got into Kaduna, and he harboured me for a few hours. That evening, we even went to town to photocopy my documents before I entered NDA. Bro, I saw the sparkle in your eyes as you bade me farewell just when I boarded that bus to NDA. How you wished I got in. I apologize for not living up to your expectations, bro. The higher powers didn’t want me to. Please relay my regards to mumsy.

PS: I didn’t apply for course 46. The Army dream is now dead and buried. We have dreamt new dreams and we are now chasing them. For as many that applied, I wish you what I would have wished myself. For those who will eventually get in, I earnest pray that God preserves your life as you navigate through the uncertainties of this career.

Amen.

So sorry AB odinba,, I remember that Night when we advise u to calm down, Your Eyes will be alright, but d next day you are no where to be found,
Wish u best of Luck
KT 29

olawaleseun:
Making reference to last year SSC/DSSC recruitment, the application portal closed in the 11th of November and the Shortlist Was released January 28

No sir, Form closed on 30th Nov 18, Shortlisted candidates List released on Thursday 27 Dec and screening commences 4 Jan 19 to 18, Final list was released on 28 January and they report on 30th Jan.

ugo4u:
12 hours to go!!!!!!!


Pls print all printables or at worst make a screenshot of all your documents, then backup either on your email or iCloud.

Lolz....
Civilian General as OGA KODACK Appoint U,
Some will still keep Deaf ears oooo

Damfostopper:
edakun make person answer me na

You can go to any court of Law and do it,

sikowitz17:
Lol those of you that want to join cos of money, the good news is they get paid the poorest out of the 3 services...so enjoy.

Hah. A Morah song saying (Money no dey, wahala dey......

maky24:
Ugo4u

Please do you have any idea if laminated documents are allowed during screening?

Yes, laminated Documents are allowed

KODACK:
The initial part of your statement is correct.....if you want to burn fat and reduce your weight,do exercise and don't chop iron....even too much running converts your fatty tissues to muscular tissues

But oga , chest size isn't used to calculate or check BMI.....Check the image you posted again.


Ugo4u and sojeee...... During Army screening, is chest size part of the medical measurements used to Calculate BMI.

No sir, is only Height, Weight.
They didn't measure chest for that purpose.
And we are asked to breath in when taking Chest X-Ray

eclipsehemmy:
patient Bro screening na November.... For now I can't say weda is before or after executive screening because na same ibadan and deir own get date already 10-24 nov... Since I no get any concrete information on the date but until then make we dey presume... But I assume it should be before...

Yes Bro, I heard that rumors saying Screening will take place before that of EC......
I pray let's d shortlisment favour us all
Ameen

ugo4u:
DSSC...
I will be surprised if SSC never surpass 100k since, because it is an all comers affair (any course).

As of Today this Afternoon SSC hits 78k plus

salaboiz:
please who know the reason why 2 candidate from each state were review for B.p. #course 45

Not all the states, and also to my own assumptions is due to shortage of numbers they want, because I am among the ppls who are called to come back after we left for 5 days to report back for review.

sikowitz17:
People be giving different advice on how-to on how to drop bp levels...
1st thing...the issues mostly arrises from nda stress, so all the eat fruits and listen to music that you are saying is funny.
all the advice you've given cannot work because of the conditions we would be subjected to in the screening.
no phones, no fruits, only nda water and jugging

That's d fact, can u remember when a candidate ask CO MC that we are in d sun now and our BP will go up, d man said yes that's when they will know who is fit and unfit, so they are doing those tinx to record more casualties deliberately....

Dammysmart:
My brother, well truth is you would have multiplicity of thoughts in your cerebral but truly this is where PASSION comes in, with the kind of Passion I got for the Army job, the change I promised myself to make in the army and experience I intend to add, I can state without an ounce of doubt that I would resume at NDA. The NDA is where I can indeed fulfil my National pledge which is to defend the unity of Nigeria with all my strength, the NDA is where I can make a change to my country Nigeria and have my name in the sands of time. Total is a place I'm going to continue a routine and just live a rosy life full of no hassles, I have done civil jobs and office is just a boring place for me. While working with an FMCG I enjoyed the field more and its activity, guess what? I resigned still for the course of focus and preparedness for Army job. I'm still much young and would take the army for ever, anyday, anytime..


NA all the way!

That's nice, But remember a saying in Army (who no come no go know)......