How I Became A Welsh Guards Army PTI

How I Became A Welsh Guards Army PTI | Sean Molino #335

Posted on 17 April 202317 April 2023 by Chris Thrall

How I Became A Welsh Guards Army PTI, features Sean Molino who served in the Welsh Guards and went onto form Forces Fitness.

How I Became A Welsh Guards Army PTI

Sean spent 6 years with 1st Battalion Welsh Guards, serving as a PTI and one year with the reserves. Sean holds the positions of Managing Director of Forces Fitness Ltd, Founder of the Veterans Awards CIC and is also an ambassador for the Welsh Governments’ Big Ideas Wales program.

Transcript from ‘How I Became A Welsh Guards Army PTI’ podcast

Sean – I went to the careers office and I was 18 years of age. I said, look I want to join the best Welsh regiment and who is it? This Welsh guards recruiting sergeant said, it’s the Welsh Guards son, so you come with me. Off I went to training and the first phase was Pirbright with the second phase up in Catterick. So plenty of hill training. I passed out after training, obviously and I remember getting off the train station in St James’s Park. If you know London very well, it’s near enough to Buckingham Palace. The first year of my military career was spent at Wellington Barracks, literally a stone’s throw away from Buckingham Palace.