Royal Marines Commando School

[Mr Taxpayer]

Legacywr said:

Who remembers The Para's from 1982?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J9tAjxi4p4

The Paras and a few other military series are available on iPlayer. Check out the 'tashes!

[Zoobeef]

Megaflow said:

Sounds like a couple of people on here have been to Lympstone, a couple of other questions spring to mind:

1) They get up at 5:30am, what time do they get put to bed?
2) What's with the showing them how to wash, shave and iron. Are your average late teen / early twenty year old that useless these days?

I'm sure there will be more as the series goes on.

Good telly though.

They go to bed when they have finished their kit/cleaning jobs/anything else.

Some are some aren't but you can't select the few out so the lesson is given to everyone. No excuses to not do it right if you've had the lesson.

[Mr Taxpayer]

FourWheelDrift said:

el stovey said:

I'm a bit surprised by the caliber of individuals joining. The guys I know who joined the RMs were all super fit, well educated high achievers before they became marines, these recruits look a complete rabble.

It's just another selectively edited modern show like all the others. Done in an Apprentice style, so I'm treating it the same way I treat the Apprentice.

There was one on a few years ago, BBC I think that was much better. I think it was this one - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sK9e-bUZq14 but without watching all 4 parts it could be another, there have been a few.

ITV4 have just finished screening 'Commando: On the frontline', which is the same thing, i.e. following a Troop through training, but was filmed in 2007. It will be interesting to see how 7 years of war in Afghanistan have changed stuff. In the 2007 series, IEDs were unheard of and it was very much a conventional 'shooting' war. The latter stages of the conflict have been defined by the IED and Counter-IED measures.

[Mr Taxpayer]

Megaflow said:

Sounds like a couple of people on here have been to Lympstone, a couple of other questions spring to mind:

1) They get up at 5:30am, what time do they get put to bed?
2) What's with the showing them how to wash, shave and iron. Are your average late teen / early twenty year old that useless these days?

I'm sure there will be more as the series goes on.

Good telly though.

Yes, they really are that useless. The Army do similar lessons.
As an ex-Pongo that has served with 40Cdo on Ops, I've always thought 'The Royals' a bit fetishistic about cleanliness.

[Mr Taxpayer]

Lincsblokey said:

Shocked no one has mentioned Bromide in the tea urns in the scran hall...

Bromide in the wets in Galley! Hoist that onboard.

[jimbop1]

Megaflow said:

Sounds like a couple of people on here have been to Lympstone, a couple of other questions spring to mind:

1) They get up at 5:30am, what time do they get put to bed?
2) What's with the showing them how to wash, shave and iron. Are your average late teen / early twenty year old that useless these days?

I'm sure there will be more as the series goes on.

Good telly though.

They always have thought how to wash and shave etc.. It's so if you don't do it you will get thrashed.

[skirk]

It does go some way to explain why every bootneck i ever served with got naked at the drop of a hat.....does'nt explain their fetish for womens clothing though....

[chad valley]

Thing that struck me was the corporal's gratuitous, almost desperate multiple use of the "F" word. These day's absolutely no one is shocked by the use of the "F" word in these circumstances. Even old ladies like Helen Mirren use it on TV.

I remember a sergeant who almost never swore, he didn't need to. When he did you knew to take cover.

Edited by chad valley on Tuesday 15th July 10:40

[Dr Jekyll]

chad valley said:

Thing that struck me was the corporal's gratuitous, almost desperate multiple use of the "F" word. These day's absolutely no one is shocked by the use of the "F" word in these circumstances. Even old ladies like Helen Mirren use it on TV.

I remember during my basic training a sergeant who almost never swore. He didn't need to but when he did you knew to take cover.

It does seem a military convention to use 'F' words as punctuation rather than an adjective. You'd think they would want to leave some words in reserve for when they are really annoyed.

[Steve H]

I think theres a few on here that are pretending they have been a RM........what colour is the Boathouse at Lympstone?????

[dave_s13]

Dr Jekyll said:

chad valley said:

Thing that struck me was the corporal's gratuitous, almost desperate multiple use of the "F" word. These day's absolutely no one is shocked by the use of the "F" word in these circumstances. Even old ladies like Helen Mirren use it on TV.

I remember during my basic training a sergeant who almost never swore. He didn't need to but when he did you knew to take cover.

It does seem a military convention to use 'F' words as punctuation rather than an adjective. You'd think they would want to leave some words in reserve for when they are really annoyed.

I fkin agree with this, it was fkin cringeworthy tbh and just made him sound like a fkin [fat] idiot.

[z4RRSchris99]

lil bro is RMO, they were filming this when I was at families day last year. had to sign tv waivers etc...

might even see my mug on tv.

[dai1983]

Mr Taxpayer said:

I've always thought 'The Royals' a bit fetishistic about cleanliness.

Likewise every non commando trained Pongo I've worked with has been a honking piece of kit who shaved fully dressed, hardly showered and went to the "scoff house" in used phys rig. I once witnessed someone using an electric razor while they were still in bed!

We were told that they do the cleaning lessons as they accept recruits from the commonwealth who may not be familiar with our way of doing things.

What you don't see is what happens when the camera isn't there. Those shocked with the language should also know that it's likely that was probably toned down for TV.

[dirty boy]

Steve H said:

I think theres a few on here that are pretending they have been a RM........what colour is the Boathouse at Lympstone?????

What boathouse at Lympstone?

[J18NHS]

Brings back memory's,

You think that colours is a little large, when I was there in 98' ish the colours was an easy 20+ stone.

No hospital corners? Wtf

[Mr Taxpayer]

dai1983 said:

Mr Taxpayer said:

I've always thought 'The Royals' a bit fetishistic about cleanliness.

Likewise every non commando trained Pongo I've worked with has been a honking piece of kit who shaved fully dressed, hardly showered and went to the "scoff house" in used phys rig. I once witnessed someone using an electric razor while they were still in bed!

We were told that they do the cleaning lessons as they accept recruits from the commonwealth who may not be familiar with our way of doing things.

Lol! Have you been following me? Bang on mucker, apart from I ate my scoff and drank my brew in the cookhouse. Never been anywhere with a 'scoff house'.

[Nimby]

I missed the first few minutes. Did they say why one guy's face was pixelated out in all the group shots?

[AdeTuono]

dirty boy said:

Steve H said:

I think theres a few on here that are pretending they have been a RM........what colour is the Boathouse at Lympstone?????

What boathouse at Lympstone?

Would sir like a parrot?

[Zoobeef]

Steve H said:

I think theres a few on here that are pretending they have been a RM........what colour is the Boathouse at Lympstone?????

Green, the same as their our berets.

[Steve H]

AdeTuono said:

dirty boy said:

Steve H said:

I think theres a few on here that are pretending they have been a RM........what colour is the Boathouse at Lympstone?????

What boathouse at Lympstone?

Would sir like a parrot?

Or maybe he has just passed the test???????????????????????????????????????