Royal Marine Commandos get updated...

Chuckman

Chuckman

Senior Member
Joined
Dec 17, 2016
Messages
19,691
Location
North Durham
Rating - 100%
20   0   0
royal-marine-graphic-1024x576.jpg


I did an exchange with those cats. They are legit, and I loved my time.
 
I worked with some Royal Marine Commandos in Iraq in 2006. Good lads
 
All the NATO bubbas I've worked & partied with have been squared away. Trained a bunch with the Germans over the years & medic, PSYOP, or their Airborne Infantry, their NCO corps is 2nd only to our own. Romanians get special mention- their military is built on the US & German models, train with our doctrine & techniques & very squared away. Hella fun to party with, too :D
 
I worked with about 100 Royal Marines in Iraq back in about 2007. Good dudes.

We were on a British base, so we got to drink real beer on Friday nights. Those guys partied hard.

I traded uniforms with one of them. I still have it somewhere.
 
Me, another corpsman, and 3 Marines did an exchange. At the end of the commando portion of their course they awarded us their green berets, which I like to tell people: I am a qualified green beret. @rufrdr , they are different animals for sure...kinda a cross between rangers and recon....
 
I did cross training with them and the ROK. Both groups are full of really good and hard people. The ROK's are some of the hardest little bastards around.
 
Chdamn said:
I did cross training with them and the ROK. Both groups are full of really good and hard people. The ROK's are some of the hardest little bastards around.
Click to expand...

My grandfather fought in Korea, in the US Army. He said the Koreans were know for having a very hard skull. He said if you threw a punch at one, they would lower their head. If you punched them in the top of the head you might break your hand.
 
Alabamacoastie said:
My grandfather fought in Korea, in the US Army. He said the Koreans were know for having a very hard skull. He said if you threw a punch at one, they would lower their head. If you punched them in the top of the head you might break your hand.
Click to expand...

Not sure about that, lol, I'll take his word on it. I was just referring to their toughness. Those little bastards do not have an inkling what the word quit means. And you do not want to go hand to hand with them. Their muscles are like bands of woven wire.

I've said for years, that if they had the budget, weapons and training you could turn every one of them into a top tier operator (physically at least).
 
Chdamn said:
Not sure about that, lol, I'll take his word on it. I was just referring to their toughness. Those little bastards do not have an inkling what the word quit means. And you do not want to go hand to hand with them. Their muscles are like bands of woven wire.

I've said for years, that if they had the budget, weapons and training you could turn every one of them into a top tier operator (physically at least).
Click to expand...

We did a WESTPAC deployment and worked with the ROKs on some combined ops. We doing diver ops off the northern coast of Australia, a ROK officer and NCO were dive buddies, and we had a pretty simple nav course (like, swim 1,000 yards on heading 035 to first buoy, then 1,500 yards at 180 to second, etc.). Every dive team set off in 15-minute intervals, the end was on a beach. We were on the beach when they came out. The officer was blue and barely breathing, the NCO was madder than hell. Through broken English the NCO said about 3 minutes out from the beach the officer ran out of air and wanted to ascend, he told the officer "no", dragging him, keeping him from ascending. So basically the officer almost drowned because he held his breath for about 3 minutes. The ambulance had to take him to the hospital, he was barely responsive.
 
Chuckman said:
We did a WESTPAC deployment and worked with the ROKs on some combined ops. We doing diver ops off the northern coast of Australia, a ROK officer and NCO were dive buddies, and we had a pretty simple nav course (like, swim 1,000 yards on heading 035 to first buoy, then 1,500 yards at 180 to second, etc.). Every dive team set off in 15-minute intervals, the end was on a beach. We were on the beach when they came out. The officer was blue and barely breathing, the NCO was madder than hell. Through broken English the NCO said about 3 minutes out from the beach the officer ran out of air and wanted to ascend, he told the officer "no", dragging him, keeping him from ascending. So basically the officer almost drowned because he held his breath for about 3 minutes. The ambulance had to take him to the hospital, he was barely responsive.
Click to expand...

HAHAHAHA. That’s what I meant.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top Bottom