I passed and received my green beret in late1965, my mate failed the 30 miler, and took the option of trying it again the next day, he passed, that's called guts.
Failing any of the tests is a bummer because you know you have to the whole thing again to pass out. Great incentive to do it all first time. I had to do my nine-miler again in the same week. Don’t remember a thing about it.
The drive back to Lympstone in the back of the '4 tonner', green lid in my hand. That feeling with stay with me forever. I walked into the grot, sat on my pit and knew the task was complete.
S DJ you can’t handle the fact something could be telling the truth about being a marine commando. Don’t have a go at others because you couldn’t make the CUT. Ex 3 para.. number 24 “sir” pass “sir” back at standing at ease. Greatest feeling in my life at the time. PS. Instead of saying bullshit ask him question where he can clarify his statement.
Did this 25 years ago as the end of the All Arms Commando Course. Still remember it like yesterday. What this doesn't show is that EVERYONE is carrying an injury or multiple injuries - but the sheer willpower gets you through. We had a young Gunner with a broken foot who completed the 30 miler - hats off to you Bully!
Former Yank Marine here. Served eight years in the Infantry. Was stationed a couple of years in Cornwall, and got to train with the Royal Marines in Lympstone. Just absolutely phenomenal soldiers that were highly disciplined and in far better shape than we were. In my opinion, some of the very best troops in the world.
Former Israeli special ops tactical space force Marine sergeant gunnery marksmen here. I served 4 years with the English SAS Marines in Pembrokeshire and they were well good, innit - much more disciplined and fitter than us. At least we had the Talmud to fall back on though.
@soflo23 Yank Marine is what the Brits called us. Was Security Forces in England, then 0311 in Golf Co 2/4. Did three yrs and three deployments, then finished up as an 0311 instructor at the SOI, Camp Geiger.
Read the rest of your comment. The name of the base was RAF St. Mawgan. It is in Newquay, Cornwall. Served in the Marines from July 87- Feb 95. Where did you serve?
@soflo23 You're actually a wee bit wrong. Although I can completely see through this Walter Mitty... RAF St.Mawgan Newquay, Cornwall, pretty big base considering it used to hold the country's Nuclear deterrent and housed your Air Force. I know the base is closing but when I had a brief stint there there were U.S service personnel stationed there, all be it Air force, but there were training packages offered to other services e.g CQB packages, escape & evasion packages etc etc etc
@soflo23 Think you will find that there have been many USMC ranks drafted to the South West of England. Rufus Chunks Rodriguez being one of them. Only guy I know to earn the green beret and then be deployed with the Royal Marines Mountain Leader Branch. Little like your Bridgeport.
From an American Marine, respect to my brothers across the sea. Though we do not have a dedicated 30 mile portion, nor as long a training period, we recognize your strength of arms and enduring will.
@@glenscott8367 I remember our final leg of the Crucible, we actually ended up doing a 15 miler on double the weight(65 lbs) because our Instructors had made a wrong turn. It's typically about 12 miles. That doesn't include all the hiking around at the Crucible site. It still drives me crazy how we train so intensely for 3 months and yet our counterpart, considered SOF does all the same and then more for 2 years.
Alex Warnke bro it's way worse than bootcamp, seriously and I'm an infantry marine, dont know if you are. I've done 18 miles with a 95 lbs pack, seriously show them respect they earned it. Usmc is nothing to that itb isnt even close to that.
Alex Warnke bro it's way worse than bootcamp, seriously and I'm an infantry marine, dont know if you are. I've done 18 miles with a 95 lbs pack, seriously show them respect they earned it. Usmc is nothing to that itb isnt even close to that.
I've seen the young lads out on the moor while hiking this summer, All were soaked in sweat flipping nakered and pushing forward as one. One even said hello as he passed us on the trail..flipping top blokes !!! And harder than nails. Respect from a silly old Janner...
I got my green beret in January 1963. I was a Junior Marine - for a Junior the duration of the training period was 16 months. The beret presentation was the most low key military ceremony that I've ever seen. After the 30 miler the squad fell in outside an accommodation block, cap comforter off, handed your green beret by the O.I.C. Training, and that was it. Bit of an anti-climax really, but certainly memorable.
Similar situation. I’ve just passed out of my training as a matelot and because of covid we were the first division to ever pass out of Raleigh without a pass out parade
That moment when you cross the finish line, absolutely awesome. The night the training team take the troop for a pint [or more] in Lympstone village and you realise you've done it and are accepted into the Corps. It was 1979 for me but those memories will never fade. Good luck to all our future family members.
I would just like to say a huge THANK YOU to all our lads in the armed forces, present and past, for doing such demanding jobs and laying your life on the line for us. You are appreciated.
Start the physical preparations now. Take up competitive running, swimming, hiking and start learning to do climbing. And with all of that it will still be tough as hell.
I received mine 17 years ago, seems like yesterday. Never forget that journey, you become a boot neck for the rest of your days. Respect to all young lads coming through and good luck 🤝
sean booth I received my green beret in January 1963. I still have the last green lid that wore in service. Also, prior to the issue of the new lovatt green uniforms the Bootnecks wore a khaki battledress uniform not dissimilar to that which was issued to the army in WW2. I still have that uniform jacket with the red and blue Royal Marine Commando shoulder flashes on. Below each of those flashes are a triangular flash with the commando dagger on, also in red and dark blue. These 2 flashes indicated that you were serving in a commando unit. These are my most prized possessions, and now, at the age of 76 I think about those times almost every day.
How are they shocking? You should have no illusions when trying to join the Marines it's fn tough and you should be well aware of the fact that you will smash it or it will smash you simple as. And they also emphasise the fact that you should be proud when they stick that lid on ya head. Yet again i ask how is that shocking?
The army recruiting is done by capita a useless civvie company. Problem is , it's nothing like the ads when a recruit gets in so they leave. Crazy pc world of today. The army needs tough men not nancy boys
The cameraman who filmed many of these docs, himself passed the fitness course, in his FIFTIES (it nearly killed him 🤣) and he was given a green beret.
During the Angolan Bush War, a stick, 3 SA soldiers, were on a recon type mission, they ran into the enemy and had to turn tail. They ran for about 3 days, eventually dropping all their kit, eventually even their rifles. They could hear the enemy getting closer every time they stopped. Sometimes they stopped and 1 would say, I can go any longer, but the others would say, Then you're going to die. They'd start running again. They made it back. I remember our 1st route march, 15km's just like this vdo, half power walking, half jogging, also full kit. It floored us, and many couldnt even wear boots afterwards for days because of the blisters. That was just the 1st of many to come. Respect to these guys.
I always felt the 30 miler was an anti climax. I had a stress fracture and limped everywhere for much of training as many have prior and past. I used to enjoy getting ashore as a recruit but that night having passed my final test I had a quiet beer in the naafi and felt sad it was all over bar the shouting. I didn't have any good feelings that I can recall, only a dehydrated headache and my first telephone call home during training after ages queuing for the phone box to my mother since joining up. Personally I'd say it was a bad day even though I was an original of 14 from 54.
@@eliselawless3246 what did you go for in the end? Go Royal first. Trust me. It is the much tougher test. Not the fallback option. If you make it even halfway through commando training the Fire service will seem a joke. Get fucking down and do five laps of the harbour area. Standby GO
The only feeling I can even compare to how I felt when I earned that green beret was when I earned my Eagle, Globe, and Anchor as a U.S. Marine. Two massive moments of extreme pride and accomplishment. - U.S. Marine. All Arms
always wish i started training my fitness earlier in life. at 26 there's definitely time, but picking endurance up from a powerlifting background is practically starting from scratch. better get to it
In my troop (934 Troop - 1970) we had a Yorkie, 28 years old, ex-plumber I think. Five feet six and medium build. Sheer guts and determination got him through. It’s harder for most when you’re that age but certainly doable.
There is no greater feeling of completing the final task to become a Royal Marine and a member of an ELITE club, a personal achievement of yourself in self discipline, and seeing the course through. This discipline plays a major part and contribution to life in civvy street. Ex RM 1968 - 1977
Top draw recruiting videos that have stood the test of time please have words with the other services as they fall short. Your ads motivate the right people and deservedly so. If you want anything in life you have to work for it.
This looks so familiar, portuguese Fuzileiros final 50km march, after 15 days of exercises and attacks and rowing zodiac for 15km... Best 6 months of my life 💪. These Royal Marines have a great training
ive been wanting to join the royal marines and at first i thought that a marathon is scary but having your mates to help you and getting the beret seems worth it in the end
I am so glad that I joined the RAF, even in my peak, I don't think that I would have ever completed marines training, let alone thirty miles. A mile and a half was the only distance that we used to run and we done that three times, I think we only did cross country once or twice, and that was not for a great distance. I was asked to remuster to become a PTI on numerous occasions, but I think the RAF PTI's would have been buggered against a marine in terms of fitness. Hell a lot of them could not even count to ten, we would often do about seven press ups and that was job done.
Lol,thanks for your honesty! I worked with an ex RAF "Crabfat" who during a dit spinning work break proudly told our work colleagues that the hardest test he ever did was a mile and half run out then back as fast as possible, (a basic BFT.) He looked me square in the eye and expected me to agree. I just choked back tears as I chomped on my bacon butty.
30 miles in 8 hours is a heck of a trek. To get the EIB, Expert Infantry Badge, we had to do 12 miles in 3 hours with a 65 lb ruck. (That was on a damn green belt around a golf course lol.) These guys were humping a damn mountain so mad respect to that.
I trekked across Dartmoor with the Army Cadet Force... 12-14 hours must have been... that's with a few breaks. Man that terrain is tough and with all that kit... easy enough to roll an ankle... but yeah... tough
Dartmoor where they do the 30-miler can be quite a tough walking environment as well - miles of undulating hills and valleys which can be very boggy in places, especially after heavy rain. Step on the wrong tuft of grass and your foot goes in up to the knee, boots fill with cold muddy water etc. The mud can also be very clingy and stick to your boots, which adds weight to each step. In summer you also have to think about extra water and sunburn/heatstroke. And of course if you're navigating when the mist comes down, as the officer candidates do, it's very easy to get lost as the terrain is quite featureless in the mist with hard to pick out landmarks to take a bearing etc.
You just have to get it done! It is possibly the most painful thing bar injury in combat (that smarts) that I have ever felt, but by fuck did I want the lid so bad that I would have done it again! That is the mindset needed. Well done to all that have completed the final test, be it RM or AACC. It ment that you really wanted to be the best.
Troop speed March done me more damage then the 30 miler destroyed my ankles the tears where running down my face with the pain getting that done was my biggest challenge
Completing the Royal Marines Commando training successfully is a level above All Arms Commando. Passing AACC is still an impressive feat and anybody who did pass it would have a good chance in their prime of passing Royal Marines Commando.
It is a mixed speed event. Meaning there is also periods of running and there are other tasks that have to be performed. And this is done at the end of the week when the candidates are already exhausted. The truth is only young people are capable of doing it.
Saw a lovely patch of green grass went over It went upto my neck in ice cold water came in on time but one of the last and got questioned why I replied “No excuse Sir “ Then the PWI intervened saying “ You have a bar in your leg don’t you” I Replied “ yes from my hip to knee “ The Captain said “ Carry on” but I didn’t get the Kings Badge😢
Been many decades since l passed my commando tests . But might sound odd l found the 30 miler tough , but for me it was the Endurance course that took it out of me probably at 6ft 3 and been fairly large( love to be in that physical shape again)l struggled in the tunnels and that really took it out of me
Not easy getting past those first 7 days. Induction, power point on equality and diversity and a Union presentation. I'd have thrown in the towel too. My respect sir
A feeling that can never be replicated and a feeling that's left a void in me ever since I left. Getting to put that green lid on my head, for myself, my friends who knew how much I wanted it and my family, the feeling is something that can't be replicated. Pride, relief and a sense of an end of a journey. Though it was just the beginning 🫡
Nice video! i liked 50&60 MILER much better it really make the cut ,who is really harder,i have seen many collaps about in kilometers 55-65 KM ,there is the cutting distance!
Always liked the look of the rms, worked with paras and royals overseas on the circuit. I found the difference to be quite like night and day. Rms are generally humble blokes with good attitudes, some of the cockiest people I met were paras. It was always good to see someone show up a para. Worked with an old boot neck called daz broadbent once I rejoined, he was super fit, humble and always a laugh...44 yrs old and would beat most people doing the 2.4 wearing boots.
I too was on the circuit. (Ex 2 Para 22 yrs). Working with an ex RM/SBS/Met armed policeman called Jim Mculloch, some ex cabbageheads may well remember him. (RIP, natural causes). Great bloke. Our paths diverged in iraq and we met up a few years later at the B&B in Iraq as he was flying out of the sandpit. We met and the beer flowed. I said iit was regrettable that he`d been a Sea Hat and not Para Regt... he took a swig of his beer and said "Stubbo, I`ve worked with all types and regiments out here. Guards, Bootnecks, Paras etc etc. He said it pains me to admit sadly, that the most professional lads I have worked with were ex Para Regt. A compliment indeed coming from this man mountain. And BTW, I think your opinion of Para Regt v RM is bullshit
After failing the AOSB I decided to head off for a 3 day ruck by myself in the mountains. On the final day I did 60km with my 22kg pack. Something indescribable happens when you complete a ruck like that.
Are you the best? Some would argue that but unless you've earned the beret, just respect the guys who had It and those who have it now. To those who think they can, go for it!
Don't underestimate it, this is after 30 weeks of hard training and the week prior to this they have been doing the other commando tests which are just as gruelling. And prior to that completed a 10 day field exercise. You need more than fitness to complete that trust me
@Raj Maj Haha for sure! Fitness is feeling great - luckily, I'm a long-distance hiker enthusiast with a passion for running so currently passing those tests fine. Still work to be done regarding the gym-based tests. Covid-19 has bought me some time to do that. Thanks for asking!
I was a L/Sgt Instructor at the Guards Depot in 1982. I had my younger brothers Sergeant phone me and ask if I could prevent him from leaving the Marines as he'd never seen a better recruit.
Great advert, really interesting - huge respect to those that get through. Two questions:Firstly, what happens if you don't make it? (Try again a few days later? Have to start the whole training from scratch? Or that's your one & only chance gone forever?)Secondly, I note that it says "regardless of conditions" - what happens if they find themselves marching into the teeth of a howling gale & it can't be done? (The weather is pretty changeable up there, so it must happen occasionally that the weather is so fierce that even the best can't do it?)
I did 45 miles for the shits one time starting at wherever they hold Carnival and going westward. I was alone and wasn’t in a hurry so made 26 hours of it and 2 bush naps
wish my beloved Corps would adopt the same testing standards. Combat skills not something some Col dreamed up. Add either jump or scuba as a mandatory skill direct from boot camp. Do like NSW did. start their own advanced skills at boot camp station.
Well you jog at least 5miles each day as long as you doo it as a team alls OK! I had not much problems with it but the speed march is the one too make you think what have I got in the tank
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I passed and received my green beret in late1965, my mate failed the 30 miler, and took the option of trying it again the next day, he passed, that's called guts.
Failing any of the tests is a bummer because you know you have to the whole thing again to pass out. Great incentive to do it all first time. I had to do my nine-miler again in the same week. Don’t remember a thing about it.
To pick yourself back up after a failure and get straight back into it? I don't think guts gives that justice. Nuts like cannon balls more like
true commando spirit that, fall down, get back up and keep going
The drive back to Lympstone in the back of the '4 tonner', green lid in my hand. That feeling with stay with me forever. I walked into the grot, sat on my pit and knew the task was complete.
how are you finding the marines
S DJ you can’t handle the fact something could be telling the truth about being a marine commando. Don’t have a go at others because you couldn’t make the CUT.
Ex 3 para.. number 24 “sir” pass “sir” back at standing at ease. Greatest feeling in my life at the time.
PS. Instead of saying bullshit ask him question where he can clarify his statement.
S DJ my statement?
Well done
I got my lid in march 88 . Would do it over and over again.
Saw a t-shirt once, on the front it had "god wears a red beret". On the back it said "because he couldn't pass the commando course" 👍
@Raj Maj you of course didn't mention the " veg" bit when face to face with the Para reg blokes.
tell that to the RAF reg
@@phililpb what?
@@curt6926 I think philipb as referring to the RAF reg 5 miler of death. It's harsh ya know. ;-)
@the mountain man One out of how many in the RAF?
Did this 25 years ago as the end of the All Arms Commando Course. Still remember it like yesterday. What this doesn't show is that EVERYONE is carrying an injury or multiple injuries - but the sheer willpower gets you through. We had a young Gunner with a broken foot who completed the 30 miler - hats off to you Bully!
Epic!
I did it in 1953. I still have the memory and the beret
Thanks for fighting for the rich and making them even richer!
@@a.g.4843 Twat.
@@a.g.4843 shut up you weirdo
Former Yank Marine here. Served eight years in the Infantry. Was stationed a couple of years in Cornwall, and got to train with the Royal Marines in Lympstone. Just absolutely phenomenal soldiers that were highly disciplined and in far better shape than we were. In my opinion, some of the very best troops in the world.
Former Israeli special ops tactical space force Marine sergeant gunnery marksmen here. I served 4 years with the English SAS Marines in Pembrokeshire and they were well good, innit - much more disciplined and fitter than us. At least we had the Talmud to fall back on though.
@soflo23 Yank Marine is what the Brits called us. Was Security Forces in England, then 0311 in Golf Co 2/4. Did three yrs and three deployments, then finished up as an 0311 instructor at the SOI, Camp Geiger.
Read the rest of your comment. The name of the base was RAF St. Mawgan. It is in Newquay, Cornwall. Served in the Marines from July 87- Feb 95. Where did you serve?
@soflo23 You're actually a wee bit wrong. Although I can completely see through this Walter Mitty... RAF St.Mawgan Newquay, Cornwall, pretty big base considering it used to hold the country's Nuclear deterrent and housed your Air Force. I know the base is closing but when I had a brief stint there there were U.S service personnel stationed there, all be it Air force, but there were training packages offered to other services e.g CQB packages, escape & evasion packages etc etc etc
@soflo23 Think you will find that there have been many USMC ranks drafted to the South West of England. Rufus Chunks Rodriguez being one of them. Only guy I know to earn the green beret and then be deployed with the Royal Marines Mountain Leader Branch. Little like your Bridgeport.
From an American Marine, respect to my brothers across the sea. Though we do not have a dedicated 30 mile portion, nor as long a training period, we recognize your strength of arms and enduring will.
Thankyou brother, always brothers in arms, till the end💪🏴🇺🇸
Respect thanks for your service
@@glenscott8367 I remember our final leg of the Crucible, we actually ended up doing a 15 miler on double the weight(65 lbs) because our Instructors had made a wrong turn. It's typically about 12 miles. That doesn't include all the hiking around at the Crucible site. It still drives me crazy how we train so intensely for 3 months and yet our counterpart, considered SOF does all the same and then more for 2 years.
Alex Warnke bro it's way worse than bootcamp, seriously and I'm an infantry marine, dont know if you are. I've done 18 miles with a 95 lbs pack, seriously show them respect they earned it. Usmc is nothing to that itb isnt even close to that.
Alex Warnke bro it's way worse than bootcamp, seriously and I'm an infantry marine, dont know if you are. I've done 18 miles with a 95 lbs pack, seriously show them respect they earned it. Usmc is nothing to that itb isnt even close to that.
I've seen the young lads out on the moor while hiking this summer, All were soaked in sweat flipping nakered and pushing forward as one. One even said hello as he passed us on the trail..flipping top blokes !!! And harder than nails. Respect from a silly old Janner...
I got my green beret in January 1963. I was a Junior Marine - for a Junior the duration of the training period was 16 months.
The beret presentation was the most low key military ceremony that I've ever seen. After the 30 miler the squad fell in outside an accommodation block, cap comforter off, handed your green beret by the O.I.C. Training, and that was it. Bit of an anti-climax really, but certainly memorable.
Similar situation. I’ve just passed out of my training as a matelot and because of covid we were the first division to ever pass out of Raleigh without a pass out parade
That moment when you cross the finish line, absolutely awesome. The night the training team take the troop for a pint [or more] in Lympstone village and you realise you've done it and are accepted into the Corps. It was 1979 for me but those memories will never fade. Good luck to all our future family members.
Me and the lads from 277 troop just completed ours today. Best feeling in the world. Period.
You'll get there mate, dont sweat it
Don't worry about that stuff mate
It's actually good mate, only doing drives course for hgv at the prmc grots for the moment though. Pretty boring aha
Haha it does get better. Promise
Good luck, decent exercise aha
I would just like to say a huge THANK YOU to all our lads in the armed forces, present and past, for doing such demanding jobs and laying your life on the line for us. You are appreciated.
Ultimate respect for those troops , my idols and who I strive to be in the coming years
Have you gone for it yet?
Watching other people put their Green Beret on for the first time is so inspiring. It’s what makes me want to be a commando when I turn 18
Hope you give it a go. You will remember it for the rest of your life, pass or fail.
Start the physical preparations now. Take up competitive running, swimming, hiking and start learning to do climbing.
And with all of that it will still be tough as hell.
All military units in all countries can be summed up simply, "If it doesn't involve selection, it isn't worth doing"
I received mine 17 years ago, seems like yesterday. Never forget that journey, you become a boot neck for the rest of your days. Respect to all young lads coming through and good luck 🤝
sean booth I received my green beret in January 1963. I still have the last green lid that wore in service. Also, prior to the issue of the new lovatt green uniforms the Bootnecks wore a khaki battledress uniform not dissimilar to that which was issued to the army in WW2. I still have that uniform jacket with the red and blue Royal Marine Commando shoulder flashes on. Below each of those flashes are a triangular flash with the commando dagger on, also in red and dark blue. These 2 flashes indicated that you were serving in a commando unit.
These are my most prized possessions, and now, at the age of 76 I think about those times almost every day.
The Army needs to take a hard look at these videos. There recruitment videos are shocking!
They actually make you want to join, instead of the Army’s ‘We care about your feelings’.
Ex soldier here, the new recruiting ads make me want to vomit
Absolutely embarrassing
How are they shocking? You should have no illusions when trying to join the Marines it's fn tough and you should be well aware of the fact that you will smash it or it will smash you simple as. And they also emphasise the fact that you should be proud when they stick that lid on ya head. Yet again i ask how is that shocking?
@@dingchavez8778 He was saying the army recruitment ads are shocking.
The army recruiting is done by capita a useless civvie company.
Problem is , it's nothing like the ads when a recruit gets in so they leave. Crazy pc world of today.
The army needs tough men not nancy boys
The cameraman who filmed many of these docs, himself passed the fitness course, in his FIFTIES (it nearly killed him 🤣) and he was given a green beret.
No he didn't
@@curt6926
Do tell.......
Is there a source this sounds bloody legendary!
@@hugoML652
Here's the documentary from UK TV prog (I hope the sceptics enjoy it!)
th-cam.com/video/5O4BzTKFv84/w-d-xo.html
@@curt6926
See above.......!
Respect 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Do you like huey Lewis and the news?
Orlando Rogers 6 hours 38 mins , a machine RIP
Paddy Wack passed away in a plane crash
Max Hubbard ii9
Raj M
Raj Maj clearly you didn’t know this man , nor his military credentials, this man stood head and shoulders above many of his peers .
Raj Maj you don’t become a leader of men in the Royal Marines at 21 years of age if your not something special.
During the Angolan Bush War, a stick, 3 SA soldiers, were on a recon type mission, they ran into the enemy and had to turn tail. They ran for about 3 days, eventually dropping all their kit, eventually even their rifles. They could hear the enemy getting closer every time they stopped. Sometimes they stopped and 1 would say, I can go any longer, but the others would say, Then you're going to die. They'd start running again. They made it back.
I remember our 1st route march, 15km's just like this vdo, half power walking, half jogging, also full kit. It floored us, and many couldnt even wear boots afterwards for days because of the blisters. That was just the 1st of many to come. Respect to these guys.
Sitting my PRMC soon, can't wait to get training started.
Kingcuz what do you think about sas
good luck!
@@booms5810 Im pretty sure the SAS dont recruit from RM so its a bit irrelevant
@@dylanfreeborn3844 Could of sworn the SBS took all the Marines and SAS took all the paras. My bad i guess
Alpen you can apply to join the SAS after serving 3 months in any forces, but its mostly made up of Paras and RM as they are the strongest
These are the best rm adverts ever.
I always felt the 30 miler was an anti climax. I had a stress fracture and limped everywhere for much of training as many have prior and past. I used to enjoy getting ashore as a recruit but that night having passed my final test I had a quiet beer in the naafi and felt sad it was all over bar the shouting. I didn't have any good feelings that I can recall, only a dehydrated headache and my first telephone call home during training after ages queuing for the phone box to my mother since joining up. Personally I'd say it was a bad day even though I was an original of 14 from 54.
I'm gonna do that. Nobody can stop me.
Mikey Herbert the royal marine commando is my back up plan if I don’t get into the fire service e
@@eliselawless3246 Should be the other way round.
@@eliselawless3246 If you fail as a fireman you will not pass this.
@@eliselawless3246 what did you go for in the end? Go Royal first. Trust me. It is the much tougher test. Not the fallback option. If you make it even halfway through commando training the Fire service will seem a joke. Get fucking down and do five laps of the harbour area. Standby GO
Wally Whippet I was a firefighter. We had a royal marine on the watch. You should do RM then firefighter. Did you decide in the end?
Huge respect to these guys!!
The only feeling I can even compare to how I felt when I earned that green beret was when I earned my Eagle, Globe, and Anchor as a U.S. Marine. Two massive moments of extreme pride and accomplishment. - U.S. Marine. All Arms
Trained with them when I was recon with the 82nd Airborne. Good bunch of guys, very well trained and fit. Much respect.
As are you 82nd respect from the U.K👍
always wish i started training my fitness earlier in life. at 26 there's definitely time, but picking endurance up from a powerlifting background is practically starting from scratch. better get to it
Get at it
Powerlifting is shyt endurance is beastmode
In my troop (934 Troop - 1970) we had a Yorkie, 28 years old, ex-plumber I think. Five feet six and medium build. Sheer guts and determination got him through. It’s harder for most when you’re that age but certainly doable.
@Sam-ch9mn did you pass out pal i was 562trp 1988 you must be in your 70s now mate how are you ok
Thanks for your Service form Germany
From across the pond- Semper Fi !!
There is no greater feeling of completing the final task to become a Royal Marine and a member of an ELITE club, a personal achievement of yourself in self discipline, and seeing the course through. This discipline plays a major part and contribution to life in civvy street. Ex RM 1968 - 1977
Total respect for these guys. 🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧🏴🇬🇧🏴👍👍👍👍
Top draw recruiting videos that have stood the test of time please have words with the other services as they fall short. Your ads motivate the right people and deservedly so. If you want anything in life you have to work for it.
1966 was my year, not much has changed. Well done
respect to fellow volunteers
Much respect... Great film too.
Royal Marine Commando = RESPECT!
I’ve just been TMU’d in my application to RMR. Hoping to be cleared ASAP - I want the green beret more than anything right now!!!
Did you get it in the end mate?
Thank you gentlemen
The RM Always have my highest respect 👌👌
Brilliantly shot and edited - Shout to the media team who created this.
This is incredible and really sums up how it is to want, earn, and receive your green beret.
This looks so familiar, portuguese Fuzileiros final 50km march, after 15 days of exercises and attacks and rowing zodiac for 15km...
Best 6 months of my life 💪.
These Royal Marines have a great training
All of the elite forces throughout the west are based on British commando training which started in WW2.
Great film. Massive respect. 👍
ive been wanting to join the royal marines and at first i thought that a marathon is scary but having your mates to help you and getting the beret seems worth it in the end
It's further than a marathon... marathon distance is 26 miles.
Fairplay to the Boys ! And at least it's not a another fooking advert about its ok to cry etc !
What a video!!
I'm training to become a reservist in my spare time!
Gorgeous View
As soon as I get my degree I’m joining
I wish I could go back and do this again..
A proper mustache is key. Epic. 👍
I am so glad that I joined the RAF, even in my peak, I don't think that I would have ever completed marines training, let alone thirty miles. A mile and a half was the only distance that we used to run and we done that three times, I think we only did cross country once or twice, and that was not for a great distance. I was asked to remuster to become a PTI on numerous occasions, but I think the RAF PTI's would have been buggered against a marine in terms of fitness. Hell a lot of them could not even count to ten, we would often do about seven press ups and that was job done.
Lol,thanks for your honesty! I worked with an ex RAF "Crabfat" who during a dit spinning work break proudly told our work colleagues that the hardest test he ever did was a mile and half run out then back as fast as possible, (a basic BFT.) He looked me square in the eye and expected me to agree. I just choked back tears as I chomped on my bacon butty.
One of the worlds fighting Elite. Green machine.
TNI (Tentara Nasional Indonesia) should make this kind of videos to inspire/recruit young lads!
Did this 50 years ago good to see its as tough as ever
30 miles in 8 hours is a heck of a trek. To get the EIB, Expert Infantry Badge, we had to do 12 miles in 3 hours with a 65 lb ruck. (That was on a damn green belt around a golf course lol.) These guys were humping a damn mountain so mad respect to that.
The Expert infantry is still an impressive feat and people that do it would have achieved something.
British Commando training is extreme.
would love to try that with the recruits
Warriors 🤟
I trekked across Dartmoor with the Army Cadet Force... 12-14 hours must have been... that's with a few breaks. Man that terrain is tough and with all that kit... easy enough to roll an ankle... but yeah... tough
Most people have never really been through that sort of terrain so when they start training for it they find it extremely daunting.
British lions, the best we have. Total respect.
Dartmoor where they do the 30-miler can be quite a tough walking environment as well - miles of undulating hills and valleys which can be very boggy in places, especially after heavy rain. Step on the wrong tuft of grass and your foot goes in up to the knee, boots fill with cold muddy water etc. The mud can also be very clingy and stick to your boots, which adds weight to each step. In summer you also have to think about extra water and sunburn/heatstroke. And of course if you're navigating when the mist comes down, as the officer candidates do, it's very easy to get lost as the terrain is quite featureless in the mist with hard to pick out landmarks to take a bearing etc.
You just have to get it done! It is possibly the most painful thing bar injury in combat (that smarts) that I have ever felt, but by fuck did I want the lid so bad that I would have done it again! That is the mindset needed. Well done to all that have completed the final test, be it RM or AACC. It ment that you really wanted to be the best.
Well done guys.....guts bottle and coutage....
And spelling.
Troop speed March done me more damage then the 30 miler destroyed my ankles the tears where running down my face with the pain getting that done was my biggest challenge
As another army former PTI I must admit that Royal marines are ...that tough
I was so whacked out. was doing an all arms, I remember after earning my lid, i was so exhausted just putting bedding away was knackering.
Completing the Royal Marines Commando training successfully is a level above All Arms Commando.
Passing AACC is still an impressive feat and anybody who did pass it would have a good chance in their prime of passing Royal Marines Commando.
@@bighands69 LOL ok
They're basically power walking a marathon over rough terrain with an extra 40 pounds.
It is a mixed speed event. Meaning there is also periods of running and there are other tasks that have to be performed.
And this is done at the end of the week when the candidates are already exhausted. The truth is only young people are capable of doing it.
Saw a lovely patch of green grass went over It went upto my neck in ice cold water came in on time but one of the last and got questioned why I replied “No excuse Sir “
Then the PWI intervened saying “ You have a bar in your leg don’t you” I Replied “ yes from my hip to knee “ The Captain said “ Carry on” but I didn’t get the Kings Badge😢
Got goosebumps as they put their green lids on then
Been many decades since l passed my commando tests .
But might sound odd l found the 30 miler tough , but for me it was the Endurance course that took it out of me probably at 6ft 3 and been fairly large( love to be in that physical shape again)l struggled in the tunnels and that really took it out of me
Yep, the Endurance course was the killer, the rest a breeze IMO.
Si vis pacem, para bellum
Per marre, per terrum
Semper Fidelis
Some have to lead where no others can follow, Marines.
Did this at the end of the All Arms course. I don't remember any music or slow motion bits though.
BRING IT ONNN!!!!!!
I rang the bell first week into training for the salvation army.
Brilliant! 😂
Not easy getting past those first 7 days. Induction, power point on equality and diversity and a Union presentation. I'd have thrown in the towel too. My respect sir
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My brothers across the ocean.
A feeling that can never be replicated and a feeling that's left a void in me ever since I left. Getting to put that green lid on my head, for myself, my friends who knew how much I wanted it and my family, the feeling is something that can't be replicated. Pride, relief and a sense of an end of a journey. Though it was just the beginning 🫡
Just finished my PRMC and I’m going to lympstone tomorrow
@Slice Of inBread why?
@Slice Of inBread surely you would take their word for it as you have no reason to believe otherwise
@Slice Of inBread your damn right, bitch
Did you pass?
Semper Fi earned not given. Good job lads. Tough as nails.
Semper Fi is american marines and not BRITISH!!!!!!!
This aint the yanks pal. They're British Royal Marines. (The better ones)
Well Done Men !! signed your Yankee Brother in Arms, SSG AIRBORNE INFANTRYMAN
Well done yompers
I like you write 2 or 3 Word that good for me because understand very easy thanks you my dear friends Marine's Soldier's
Nice video! i liked 50&60 MILER much better it really make the cut ,who is really harder,i have seen many collaps about in kilometers 55-65 KM ,there is the cutting distance!
Always liked the look of the rms, worked with paras and royals overseas on the circuit. I found the difference to be quite like night and day. Rms are generally humble blokes with good attitudes, some of the cockiest people I met were paras. It was always good to see someone show up a para.
Worked with an old boot neck called daz broadbent once I rejoined, he was super fit, humble and always a laugh...44 yrs old and would beat most people doing the 2.4 wearing boots.
I too was on the circuit. (Ex 2 Para 22 yrs). Working with an ex RM/SBS/Met armed policeman called Jim Mculloch, some ex cabbageheads may well remember him. (RIP, natural causes). Great bloke. Our paths diverged in iraq and we met up a few years later at the B&B in Iraq as he was flying out of the sandpit. We met and the beer flowed. I said iit was regrettable that he`d been a Sea Hat and not Para Regt... he took a swig of his beer and said "Stubbo, I`ve worked with all types and regiments out here. Guards, Bootnecks, Paras etc etc. He said it pains me to admit sadly, that the most professional lads I have worked with were ex Para Regt. A compliment indeed coming from this man mountain. And BTW, I think your opinion of Para Regt v RM is bullshit
After failing the AOSB I decided to head off for a 3 day ruck by myself in the mountains. On the final day I did 60km with my 22kg pack.
Something indescribable happens when you complete a ruck like that.
Don't forget the Paras on this part , mural respect , ... yeah !
If this doesn't make you want to run through a brick wall I don't know what will
Are you the best?
Some would argue that but unless you've earned the beret, just respect the guys who had It and those who have it now.
To those who think they can, go for it!
For a healthy prepared young man. Doable.
Don't underestimate it, this is after 30 weeks of hard training and the week prior to this they have been doing the other commando tests which are just as gruelling. And prior to that completed a 10 day field exercise. You need more than fitness to complete that trust me
Not you though you eh Billy big time.
One of the biggest regrets in my life was not have to joined. I’m 37 now, to old, to knackered & definitely unfit.
There is being fit and there is being one of these elites
Will be doing my PRMC once Covid-19 is all over and done with. Can't wait
@Raj Maj I wasn't aware of that so thanks for the heads up!
@Raj Maj Haha for sure! Fitness is feeling great - luckily, I'm a long-distance hiker enthusiast with a passion for running so currently passing those tests fine. Still work to be done regarding the gym-based tests. Covid-19 has bought me some time to do that. Thanks for asking!
@Raj Maj Thanks for the advice - I'm gonna need it!
'Hitting the wall'. There are several walls to hit. Each one, requiring another gear to surmount. It's an uncompromising benchmark.
I was a L/Sgt Instructor at the Guards Depot in 1982. I had my younger brothers Sergeant phone me and ask if I could prevent him from leaving the Marines as he'd never seen a better recruit.
Great advert, really interesting - huge respect to those that get through. Two questions:Firstly, what happens if you don't make it? (Try again a few days later? Have to start the whole training from scratch? Or that's your one & only chance gone forever?)Secondly, I note that it says "regardless of conditions" - what happens if they find themselves marching into the teeth of a howling gale & it can't be done? (The weather is pretty changeable up there, so it must happen occasionally that the weather is so fierce that even the best can't do it?)
Yep, have to the test you fail again - up to two I believe. If you fail more, you’re out or backtrooped for more training.
I did 45 miles for the shits one time starting at wherever they hold Carnival and going westward. I was alone and wasn’t in a hurry so made 26 hours of it and 2 bush naps
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wish my beloved Corps would adopt the same testing standards. Combat skills not something some Col dreamed up. Add either jump or scuba as a mandatory skill direct from boot camp. Do like NSW did. start their own advanced skills at boot camp station.
That brothhood has recently been deconstructed for PC reasons. End of an era. Well in Royal. Don’t let the PC police break us 💪🏼 👍
Well you jog at least 5miles each day as long as you doo it as a team alls OK! I had not much problems with it but the speed march is the one too make you think what have I got in the tank