Royal Marines Commando School CH4
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Royal Marines Commando School CH4
Have a mate who went through the same course (not the Foundation bit) near 2 decades ago and served several years and now doing well in civvy street. He watched the first episode and it kind of brought back some very nice and shiver shiver type memories!
I suspect they will be amongst the last batch of recruits to em/de plane from a Junglie Commando as there is the transitioning to Merlin is taking place.....
I wonder how many of those recruits (when they pass out) will someday probably end up going for aircrew positions, or go onto be commissioned in their career and who knows end up as pilots and flying everything from Merlin to Wildcat and even F-35!
There has been a Tonka backseater who used (and probably can still wear) to be a Green lid.
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I suspect they will be amongst the last batch of recruits to em/de plane from a Junglie Commando as there is the transitioning to Merlin is taking place.....
I wonder how many of those recruits (when they pass out) will someday probably end up going for aircrew positions, or go onto be commissioned in their career and who knows end up as pilots and flying everything from Merlin to Wildcat and even F-35!
There has been a Tonka backseater who used (and probably can still wear) to be a Green lid.
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Airborne Royal Marines, in both senses of the word, are not new.
There has been at least one Harrier flying Bootie in recent years too.
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The linky is publically viewable folks.
There has been at least one Harrier flying Bootie in recent years too.
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There is a book by a bootie chinny pilot in afgan on attachment to the raf.
I though it was quite a good read.
I have a friend starting the full course in September silly bugger at his age.
I though it was quite a good read.
I have a friend starting the full course in September silly bugger at his age.
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Yep, got that book - Immediate Response - and also Flying Marines - amazing how many peeps lucky enough to secure exchanges across the pond flying AH-1W/UH-1N and even OV-10A Bronco (though interesting story about USN haircut standards resulting in exchange officer being kicked off NAS Fallon in the early 1970s!!)
Like I said, I wonder how many of those portrayed on tv, will someday aspire to be officers and aircrew....(probably can/cannot tell who already has leadership potential at this stage?)
I believe the USMC grunt course at Parris Island and San Diego is 12 weeks of hell. Though their OCS and The Basic School for officers is roughly a year as with the officer training at Lympstone.
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Like I said, I wonder how many of those portrayed on tv, will someday aspire to be officers and aircrew....(probably can/cannot tell who already has leadership potential at this stage?)
I believe the USMC grunt course at Parris Island and San Diego is 12 weeks of hell. Though their OCS and The Basic School for officers is roughly a year as with the officer training at Lympstone.
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I was in the Corps from 1993-1998 and now I'm a crab SAR Winchman. There's quite a few rear crew types who are former RM and I think there was a Tonka driver at Lossie who was too.
Now On You Tube
For anyone outside the UK who wants to view it, here is the link to Episode 3 - channel also has Episodes 1-2 and I guess the remainder might get uploaded after transmission on TV:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX_0...EbUPgCC_WS4r3g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KX_0...EbUPgCC_WS4r3g
