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Forum Ranks

So far the ranks achieved are:

    On audition - 0
    In Basic Training - 20
    Term 3s Passed - 40
    Term 5s Passed - 60
    Trained Rank - 80
    On Draft - 100
    M2 Passed - 150
    Junior Command Course passed - 200
    Lance Corporal - 250
    Local Corporal - 300
    Acting Corporal - 350
    Corporal - 400
    Local Sergeant - 450
    Acting Sergeant - 500
    Sergeant - 550
    Drum Major - 600
    Local Colour Sergeant - 650
    Acting Colour Sergeant - 700
    Colour Sergeant - 750
    Bugle Major - 800
    Local Warrant Officer 2 - 850
    Acting Warrant Officer 2 - 900
    Warrant Officer 2 - 1000
    Bandmaster - 1100
    Local Warrant Officer 1 - 1200
    Acting Warrant Officer 1 - 1300
    Warrant Officer 1 - 1400
    Corps Bandmaster - 1600
    Officer Candidate - 1800
    AIB Passed - 2000

It doesn't take Einstein to see where you are going! When you reach the top (which is a LONG way off) you will be given the option to choose your own custom rank. The custom rank will be created and it is yours, nobody else will have that rank so get your thinking caps on trying to think of the rank YOU want
bootybandy

What's that then?
bootybandy

Stop cheating when there's no-one else on the Forum. I did that a little while ago. I visited very early on Sunday morning and ran amok. Wrists slapped by most people.....Lol...
eastneyslapper

bootybandy wrote:
Stop cheating when there's no-one else on the Forum. Lol...


Sorry, all... I just wanted to pass my M2's... Really difficult these days...
Aaron Aardvark

Slapper.............stop posting and swamping the place in an effort to gain promotion. They WILL and HAVE been deleted.
Hornblower

That told Bill Stickers alright...

Good job too.
Baaaaaaaaaaass

Wow, if I were to get 150 posts under my belt, I'd be more qualified on this forum than in the Job!

How ironic.
Baaaaaaaaaaass

Wow, I never thought I'd get my M2's done!
Jimbo

Re: Forum Ranks

Co-admin wrote:
So far the ranks achieved are:

    On audition - 0
    In Basic Training - 20
    Term 3s Passed - 40
    Term 5s Passed - 60
    Trained Rank - 80
    On Draft - 100
    M2 Passed - 150
    Junior Command Course passed - 200
    Lance Corporal - 250
    Local Corporal - 300
    Acting Corporal - 350
    Corporal - 400
    Local Sergeant - 450
    Acting Sergeant - 500
    Sergeant - 550
    Drum Major - 600
    Local Colour Sergeant - 650
    Acting Colour Sergeant - 700
    Colour Sergeant - 750
    Bugle Major - 800
    Local Warrant Officer 2 - 850
    Acting Warrant Officer 2 - 900
    Warrant Officer 2 - 1000
    Bandmaster - 1100
    Local Warrant Officer 1 - 1200
    Acting Warrant Officer 1 - 1300
    Warrant Officer 1 - 1400
    Corps Bandmaster - 1600
    Officer Candidate - 1800
    AIB Passed - 2000

It doesn't take Einstein to see where you are going! When you reach the top (which is a LONG way off) you will be given the option to choose your own custom rank. The custom rank will be created and it is yours, nobody else will have that rank so get your thinking caps on trying to think of the rank YOU want



So where does Senior command Course fit into this then? And are you saying that WO2's aren't necessarily bandmasters? Is there a separate ladder for 'A streamers'? And where does the B3, B2 and B1's fit in here?

(hehe)
ZedHorn

just had a valid thought..... shock horror!

shouldn't we have 'special' volly ranks or are we just assumed as equals..
General Melchett

Why, are you 'speshul' Zed?
ZedHorn

I'd have thought that was evident!!!! vewy speshul....
General Melchett

Mlaaaaaaar!
ZedHorn

say again..... not sure if that was dialectual or phonetic????
Aaron Aardvark

ZedHorn wrote:
or are we just assumed as equals..


wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

we are all equal but some are more equal than others.
Errol

I am so equal that nobody can better me
Michael Thompson

I'm just as equal and I'm not even a Major.
But I do have a 65 piece band.
Does that make me more equal than some?
or am I as equal as others?
Albeit, I feel I'm just as equal as everyone.
It doesn't matter, we are all equal as each other as
we are all part of the RMB brotherhood (sisterhood, for the girls)
Sorry that should all read RMB personhood.

Jim, you only need to pass your B2's to have your own band.
There is no discrimination on that front.
Errol

Tommo, you are definately equal, in fact I shall call you Norm.
RAB

Errol wrote:
in fact I shall call you Norm.


..Well let's see what my mate NORM has to say about that........Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah
Michael Thompson

Norm's fine but Bruce is a bit toooooooooo much
Errol

Was'nt there there aBruce called Robert!!!! no doubt Rab will know about that Aussie
admin

Here we are in a position that anyone can now work out the entire rank structure so here goes... Rab is now at the pinnacle of the established rank structure and can now choose his own rank or just remain PDM

On audition 0
In Basic Training 20
Term 3s Passed 40
Term 5s Passed 60
Trained Rank 80
On Draft 100
M2 Passed 150
Junior Command Course passed 200
Lance Corporal 250
Local Corporal 300
Acting Corporal 350
Corporal 400
Local Sergeant 450
Acting Sergeant 500
Sergeant 550
Drum Major 600
Local Colour Sergeant 650
Acting Colour Sergeant 700
Colour Sergeant 750
Bugle Major 800
Local Warrant Officer 2 850
Acting Warrant Officer 2 900
Warrant Officer 2 1000
Bandmaster 1100
Local Warrant Officer 1 1200
Acting Warrant Officer 1 1300
Warrant Officer 1 1400
Corps Bandmaster 1600
Officer Candidate 1800
AIB Passed 2000
Officer Under Training 2300
Captain DOM 2600
Staff Officer 2900
Major DOM 3400
PDM 4000
sticky blue

Aaron Aardvark wrote:
ZedHorn wrote:
or are we just assumed as equals..


wahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

we are all equal but some are more equal than others.


and others more equal than some  
Pusser

What I wanna know is..............if someone has time to chalk up 4,000+ posts who the hell is picking the raspberries?
Errol

Pusser wrote:
What I wanna know is..............if someone has time to chalk up 4,000+ posts who the hell is picking the raspberries?

4,000 posts. Doe's that make a PDM a 'fence' !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
RAB

Pusser wrote:
What I wanna know is..............if someone has time to chalk up 4,000+ posts who the hell is picking the raspberries?


..Oops I've been rumbled...

Actually Pat, the people who pick the fruit nowadays are the same people who do all the plumbing and building site jobs, not to mention most of the catering jobs throughout our glorious country....Eastern Europeans...

The difference is, I pay mine a decent rate.....mate..
2nd Clarinet

Do you put any money away for them into a Post Office Savings account?
RAB

2nd Clarinet wrote:
Do you put any money away for them into a Post Office Savings account?


Ahaaaah....Excellent observation Bob...They've all got P.O.S.B. Books.
I march them down to the P.O. at the end of the season, to the marching chant:

"Down the Glen march Thomson's men,
Their shovels held like Lancers,
Some of them are true fine men,
The rest are ...kin chancers".....
2nd Clarinet

Ahh!!!

Marching and singing......

I take it you give English??? lessons as well........or was it to Gaelic words?

You liberal minded Scottish Laird's are all the same.
They'll be wanting housing, next.


Keep the peasants down, is what I say, keep them down!!!!!!

Give them 'gruel' and let them be thankful for living in a free democratic (sic) country.
MrJpig

RAB wrote:
Their shovels held like Lancers,


Interesting choice of tool for raspberry picking!!    
RAB

MrJpig wrote:
Interesting choice of tool for raspberry picking!!    


Oh dear ANDY.... ...Don't you know it's the digging out of the canes season just now..???  Good Lord laddie.. How many times have you stayed at Blair Mansion again..?????      
RAB

Having given lots of thought to my preferred (fun) rank on here, I've been hearing startling reports about the quality of our new-found comrades 'The Light Division Bulgers'.....  

I think it would have a ring to it, (and ye'r ears) and be just a wee bit 'different'..

RAB....Light Division Bulge Major....
 

I have eyes and ears most places...... Shame I don't have a heart (well one which hasen't got a broken timing belt anyhoo)....
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