Royal Marines Commando School

[acd80]

Fas1975 said:

Wasn't their a corporal in Ep 1 who was french? He may have had dual nationality, but he specifically called himself out as French in that particular episode, based on that, I thought anyone could apply a la French Foreign Legion, if you parade out, then you "owe" the country x years of service?

He's from Jersey.

[PaulG40]

Zoobeef said:

Crossflow Kid said:

And it's Afghanistan not fecking "afgan".

That place has sucked enough life out of me to call it what the fk I want. stty ahole of the world or Afghan. Both are correct.

Good to see you can't even spell my quoted word correctly though. Bellend.

Me too, what a dump of a place! Glad I don't have to go back there anymore. Other sandy places, well...

Think Crossflow is/was a green suited superhero though, gotta be all posh and that. [if not, I apologise profusely for calling you 'one of them' ]

[anonymous-user]

Zoobeef said:

Bellend.

Knob cheese.


PS I was more demi-god than superhero but thanks anyway.

Edited by anonymous-user on Wednesday 20th August 21:59

[over_the_hill]

acd80 said:

Fas1975 said:

Wasn't their a corporal in Ep 1 who was french? He may have had dual nationality, but he specifically called himself out as French in that particular episode, based on that, I thought anyone could apply a la French Foreign Legion, if you parade out, then you "owe" the country x years of service?

He's from Jersey.

He has a French name - "Chauffour" - and probably ate some Brie once (actually wouldn't surprise me if more than once as he seems to eat everything in sight)

[Stu78]

I thought you had to have nationality of a Commonwealth nation or Rep. of Ireland? I presumed the Egyptian lad had dual nationality?

[MiniMan64]

I wonder how the more senior members feel about the retests?

[Zoobeef]

To me the re tests are ok as when lads fail it's a gnats cock from the end so they end up doing 5, 6 or 7 full commando tests in a week. fk that.

I did the last 6 weeks of training with 3 broken bones in my foot. Just the 4 tests were more than enough.

[dai1983]

I suppose I'll confess that a failed the Tarzan myself as I was always too slow on the high obstacles part. I'm ok at height but I just slow down loads. All the other tests were fine and I enjoyed the endurance and the 30 miler apart from the first and last 4 mile sections.

I had a week of re teaching and run throughs on it then did the whole 4 tests again with the next troop. I did laugh when one corporal was boasting it was his second 30 miler in as many months.

[andymc]

dai1983 said:

I suppose I'll confess that a failed the Tarzan myself as I was always too slow on the high obstacles part. I'm ok at height but I just slow down loads. All the other tests were fine and I enjoyed the endurance and the 30 miler apart from the first and last 4 mile sections.

I had a week of re teaching and run throughs on it then did the whole 4 tests again with the next troop. I did laugh when one corporal was boasting it was his second 30 miler in as many months.

Does anyone ever sail through the fitness tests?

[smileymikey]

The guy who collapsed 600 meters from the end of the 9 mile retest, having picked up a minor injury (broken leg) and was still trying to get up and finish it....top plucky bloke!!

[Lost soul]

smileymikey said:

The guy who collapsed 600 meters from the end of the 9 mile retest, having picked up a minor injury (broken leg) and was still trying to get up and finish it....top plucky bloke!!

When he collapsed on the first run I have never seen anyone go that colour , he looked like a corpse

[dave_s13]

andymc said:

dai1983 said:

I suppose I'll confess that a failed the Tarzan myself as I was always too slow on the high obstacles part. I'm ok at height but I just slow down loads. All the other tests were fine and I enjoyed the endurance and the 30 miler apart from the first and last 4 mile sections.

I had a week of re teaching and run throughs on it then did the whole 4 tests again with the next troop. I did laugh when one corporal was boasting it was his second 30 miler in as many months.

Does anyone ever sail through the fitness tests?

I'd hazard a guess that they do.

[nicanary]

Lost soul said:

smileymikey said:

The guy who collapsed 600 meters from the end of the 9 mile retest, having picked up a minor injury (broken leg) and was still trying to get up and finish it....top plucky bloke!!

When he collapsed on the first run I have never seen anyone go that colour , he looked like a corpse

I suspect the "broken leg" was a stress fracture, or he wouldn't have got that far, but all the same, very nasty. I agree wholeheartedly about the colour of his face and lips - that was seriously bad, you can't make up that sort of thing on reality TV. He looked near to croaking - it was nice to see that the NCOs and medics took it seriously too, no gung-ho "get up you wimp" in those circumstances. It's quite possible that if they'd forced him to go on he could have died.

[0000]

nicanary said:

it was nice to see that the NCOs and medics took it seriously too

Definitely, especially that they saw it coming, though given the amount of plaster he ended up in I suppose they should!

It's been a fascinating series. Great TV and I should think will help their recruitment numbers no end.

[dai1983]

dave_s13 said:

I'd hazard a guess that they do.

You would be correct too!

[oddball1973]

I notice the SA80 is still a piece of junk, that poor sod must have felt the world open up below when the bloody thing jammed on him again in the second endurance test

Edited by oddball1973 on Tuesday 26th August 21:07

[chilistrucker]

0000 said:

Definitely, especially that they saw it coming, though given the amount of plaster he ended up in I suppose they should!

It's been a fascinating series. Great TV and I should think will help their recruitment numbers no end.

+1, really enjoyed the whole series.

[z4RRSchris99]

oddball1973 said:

I notice the SA80 is still a piece of junk, that poor sod must have felt the world open up below when the bloody thing jammed on him again in the second endurance test

Edited by oddball1973 on Tuesday 26th August 21:07

used to use them a lot in CCF, pile of ste used to jam every magazine

[Zoobeef]

z4RRSchris99 said:

used to use them a lot in CCF, pile of ste used to jam every magazine

Whereas in 9 years and 3 operational tours I have never had a stoppage on the sa80 or carbine. Some say it's how it's cleaned.....

[Mr Trophy]

Zoobeef said:

Whereas in 9 years and 3 operational tours I have never had a stoppage on the sa80 or carbine. Some say it's how it's cleaned.....

Question, if the gun jams, how does the chap fail, surely guns fault no?