Originally Posted by
Vortex Hoop
I understood that it came from the Navy and had nothing to do with the Corps, according to RM officers I know and served with in joint orgs.
The trouble is that senior naval officers know nothing about the RM and are quite happy to see it suffer cuts in order to pay for big shiny carriers. Didn't see many of them in Afghanistan.
This round of cuts still doesn't excuse the appalling approach by Radakin to try and take over the RM-USMC relationship.
I thought the issue of naval ranks being used by RM Officers (and SNCOs?) had been discussed before - and I was right!
Royal Marine Officers to adopt Royal Navy rank structure....... maybe
It was proposed by RM Officers and the RNLMC already do it.
Mainly it's to stop Nick Carter getting confused and trying to claim the Corps are "just another light infantry" organisation, and thus try to cut them to fund FRES...
(Cf "5th generation Commando Force" designed to put even more clear blue water between a Lt Inf Bn and a RM Cdo)