i'm doing the army gap year i highly recommend it. you wouldnt be able to do rifle man, but you could do operator supply, or operator movement or a few others whatever is on the website its up to you. i had a ball at kapooka it wasnt as brutal as they make out. you make amazing friends, even with the corporals. our platoon was lucky we got our phones heaps, it depends if you's fuck up or how busy the schedule at the time. as for leave, in the first 3 months you wont get to go home. there are two weekends where you get the saturday to go into town, so i arranged to meet my family in town which was good