All Arms Commando Course - Commando Tests  

Yeah I no right don't no how they do it. Specially the first mile hill sprints at the start kills you off.

Returned to civvy life in 04 after 9 years..The 6 month @ CTC is easy everything structured if you get hurt the docs on site all your Admin is easy to sort hard part is when your operational…and actually doing the job not just training for it always amazes my when they ask what was the hardest part about being a RM…The training is just the 1st taste

@chrisyboy666 ​It's an 8 month course mate. In "your time" it was 30 weeks iirc. Changed to 32 in about 1998, think it's 34 or 36 today. Don't forget you'll get two leaves in any cycle, so either 7 or 8 weeks leave. (Xmas, Easter, summer) So you'd have done a minimum at CTC of 37-40 weeks, the minimum you can be there as a RM is 9 months not 6. That is a big difference, one that no one that has been through CTC could ever forget. it's drummed it to everyone "8 months of the hardest training in the world", whether it's actually is the hardest, it's impossible to measure, but it easy and only about a 15-20% pass out rate in the 1990s, sometimes lower. I seen troops start with 40 and have 6 left at the end. ​@@chrisyboy666 The shame of having such a small pass out, means the ceremony drill can be a bit shit. I'm sure they started merging small pass out troops. If you only had sub 15, you be held in a 2 week holding pattern and enter the following kings squad 2 weeks later. Being that a troop intake and passes out every 2 weeks, the camp is open. So for about 9.5months given the closedown leave time. Iirc the total leave was 3 Xmas, 3 Easter (maybe 2) and 4 summer so say 10 weeks. That would make 21 intakes a year. Of 40 (in the 90s) so about 900 in and about 200 would pass the course annually. I'd say that it's pretty difficult. Remering that first each one of the 900 recruits has already been on the Prmc course (I know the C is course), where you get about 60 hopefully turn up every week iirc, and about only 10-20 of them are invited back to start the course at CTC. In the 90s, you should remember the recruiting adverts 99.5% need not apply. A great book line, that may over do it a bit, but it got my arse down to Liverpool recruitment office outside of st James street. Also the magazine add lie about eating worms on survival ex, I was disappointed and relieved when I found out that wasn't true, you just got to kill a chicken and rabit, and eat it burnt and raw at the same time.

@@StephenButlerOne Pays to be a winner..if I had a penny

@@chrisyboy666 that still haunts my dreams 30 years later. That and Arrrrrmmms beeend and stretch 🤢🤮

Thank you 🙌

Yep they probably already have them as they have served a couple of years already in the Army

The 30ft wall is still there

No done over 5 days.

That's bottom Field rig

@@marinestrainer Bottom field rig is sleeves down pcs & Altbergs, even in winter. You'd just over heat in a smock. Do they have the Phys top on underneath that as well? 🤣

@@Pax.Britannica now it is yes but originally it use to be t-shirt with smock. When training was hard haha

@@marinestrainer Training so hard, you don't have to worry about over heating 👌

They become commandos once completed these 4 tests

@@marinestrainerbut please be clear this is not RM training

@@gw2891 correct we didn't say it was. The title of the video says all arms commando course. It doesn't mention royal marines

It IS a Commando Training course!Allows you to wear the green lid and dagger!Allows you to serve with Commando units like 29 RA 59 RE and Commando Logistics Regt.

@@marinestrainerit says marines training ?