This is an absolute of a training team. My training team was just as tough but they would teach you things. All I see here is abuse and bullying. How on earth are the nods going to learn when they are being jumped on every 5 minutes? This training team is out of its depth.
Wow. This is the most accurate portrayal of commando training. I went through with 904 troop in 2005. It’s crazy for me to think that this was 19 years ago!!
Joined 1965 passed out 66 837 squad one of the originals proud as you can be to have earned the green beret. Hard work and lots of pain on the way,but well worth it it’s all in the mind work through it and you will get there.
I remember Louis Bernard’s on camp. The clothes shop selling Ben Sherman shirts and t-shirts with God is airborne - he failed the commando course on back. I passed out with 716 troop in 1997. Best days of my life so far.
It is a training and SELECTION process. If you are not tough enough, it is not where you need to be! Part of that team took me through training… it was hard, very hard, but fair and done for a reason. Do the country a favour and leave things as they are regarding the Royal Marines.
I just hope that guy was asked in strict confidence exactly why he wanted out. Such a f waste of a good guy when the instructors were hastling him needlessly.
In the bar hanging Sgt tries to salvage defeat by turning it into a moral lesson. The recruits would have seen through it, counter productive in the end.
You ever been dropped in to a hell hole out numbered by the worst evil on the planet? He is doing them a huge favour. Winning is being harder and scarier than the enemy as a functioning unit. If trading breaks you, you are better off doing something else.
As a friend of a formar Royal Marine, he always has my back. He even said he would go through all the training again but it would be more painful. Massive respect!
The officer here is extremely wise, debating that punishments for mistakes in stressful situations aren't always the correct way to go and i agree with him.
Brings back memories. We had Sgt Thomson on our Training Team when we went to CTCRM a few years later than this in 2002 as RMR recruits. Having recognised him from watching this programme before we joined, we were shitting it! 😆 To be fair he had mellowed somewhat, but needless to say we were still beasted to hell!!
Regains were the only test I didn’t pass at first attempt. It really is all technique and hip flexor strength. I tried again the next day after some coaching from the troop PTI and nailed it. I was so glad to get that right heel hooked over the rope, 17 years later I still remember the sheer relief.
The younger generations are softer and more selfish. Our fault as parents. There is a purpose for everything that the training staff does and teaches that doesn’t make sense when you are in training. It all makes sense once you’re in the field If the standards are lessened so are the results. You know what you are getting into from the beginning and if you don’t you shouldn’t be there to begin with
Feel bad for Thomspon. A more extreme example of a culture that will likely always be part of the military. Made a bad impression. NCO took a disliking to him. And got thrashed until he was a broken man. A potential Marine bullied out of training to massage the ego of a new Cpl trying to stamp his authority
Sgt Thompson is an excellent NCO,extreamly professional.He's tough but fair and he takes the time to explain things.Guys like him are rare.I had one or two decent instructors the rest were idiots or didn't care.The OC is sharp too.An organization is only as good as the people in it.Too bad society isn't really supplying troops as good as the staff that train them.Respect to the Royal Marines.
Passed out of Lympstone in 2007 then returned in 2014 and 15 as a member of the training team looking back at my time at Lympstone in 07 i have no idea how the training team were allowed to be there, straight up abuse and assault most days😂
It isnt an aircraft dearie, it is an aeroplane. An aircraft is what a statesman does with a document to give it publicity. Neville Chamberlain, another pilot who weathered the storm...
Didn't see anyone getting a hiding so it's not that bad, so what if someone tells you are a piece of shite...stop being a piece of shite and they'll leave you alone🤣🤣
This was a real documentary of training standards, attention to detail and uniformity, not like the 2012 Commando School rubbish, too much messing around...
I thought that soap opera RMC commando school was absolutely shocking. I'm not military but have had family and friends that have served . I've read many accounts on military (British) history and I don't claim to be an expert but RMC school was an embarrassment to the Marines.
100% I watched this documentary a few years before joining in 2004. It’s by far the most representative documentary on RM training there is. Commando on the frontline and commando school were both absolute dross. We had ‘Hollywood troop’ a few month behind us in training and they were spoon fed through the whole course. I ended up as one of 12 originals out of 57. Hollywood troop passed out 40 odd originals, an almost unheard of low attrition rate.
@@BootneckAlphaKilo It's a shame that elite forces have been cornered into making basic training easier simply to boost numbers. Not the personnel they were back in the late 70's early 80's because of this, if the Falklands ever kicked off again, it would be a different war 💪
@@NeroAngelo616 They showed the Marines in operation leading on from training, some soon after some not, forces personnel are trained according to their roles. Navy, RAF, Para Etc.. They do different roles obviously hence the difference, physical intensity and technically of each basic training.. Are they ready for conflict straight out of basic training? I don't think they are..
Every generation says training was harder in my day. I went through training in the late 90s and the instructors said it was harder in their day and they were right. Today it is an absolute joke, you have women and femboys passing . You have recruits playing the race card to get out of things they don’t want to do. If you train easy you will find the fight hard, if you train hard you will find the fight easy. We get the quality of soldier that we deserve these days.
We were on the same Norway, were you 45 too? WO2 AF died in 'my' BV (I was on Recce Troop) and he'd booted the Signaller out a hour or so before and then jumped in. We were up on the hill at the Tyin Hotel too when the other lads bought it. I tip my hat to them each time I go to the NMA.
@Mike Foxtrotter not looking for an argument nearly stating fact, our training hasn't changed since the 40s it's the people who have changed they are a lot softer today. It's up to the individual to come up to the standard not the other way around.
