Confusedmatloe

After learning to march, the REME should give you excellent trade training. However these days the CAA cannot give you any exemptions on the basis of this. So when you are coming up to your discharge date (2 years before) you should start the examinations B2 if your going to be a greeny (electrical avionic) oe B1.2 if your mechnical.

Hopefully you should have all the exams before leaving, then 12 months on the tools in civiy street (you might be able to get some civil expereince before you leave) then you can get your licence, a civil employer id more likely to take you on if you have all your exams.

Hope thats of some assistance, have been out a few years myself, good life in the army, now on 747s at Cardiff.
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Certainly got good trade training and became a CET, or Eccy as we were commonly known. As for marching we called it the REME shuffle compared to the LI and the like!
Learnt about lasers back in '78 and never looked back. Still get head hunted at 59yrs old.:ok:

Left the REME in 1985. My Army employment record states:

Primary Employment: Avionics Technician.
Secondary Employment: Pilot.

I left in 1984 then joined the Omani Army, stayed for 16 months.

Sounds like an old boys reunion going on here. With the addition of an A (RAEME) I would fit in.
Same deal in Oz, no problems getting work in civil - but be ready to "adjust" your eye for serviceability issues, no big bucket of money beside you to throw at the machine. The client will want the machine to released to the next servicing, not to be brand new.