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!!

5:48 Major Walls. Excellent climber as an ML. Was a Captain in the M&AW Cadre.

Pays to be a winner

The most realistic depiction of CTCRM

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.

Them instructors are right bad uns

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.

Doing the mud run with rifle and webbing is fucking savage

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.

NCO with the tache is a bully, but an incredible soldier

The standard of recruit might have dropped, but also the standard of instructor has too

I don't know if this has aready been said but Royal marines training is adleast as hard as SEAL training. and the sergent really looks the part.

P company looks so much worse

RPM mortel hari ng rhyad saudi puyat

You and Evelyn sariga resurreccion hara to all country

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

Marine Meager (6:30 mins) later left the Marines after 13 years service, got arrested for beating up his wife and later for assaulting a 15yr old boy 🙄

Bullies with ego's. No need for it.

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.

Well good news you have Iraq and Afghanistan round the corner

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🤣🤣

0:57 "What a fuckin pisser" 😂 SNCO vernacular is magnificent.

3:54 "Unbelievable" 😂😆 Sgt Thomson and Lt Col Lindley are such excellent examples of the archetypal NCO vs CO.

This was a real documentary of training standards, attention to detail and uniformity, not like the 2012 Commando School rubbish, too much messing around...

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.

He says physical retribution is not helpful. The flank worked for me and I'll never forget it, 16 years later.

First Norway trip I did in 1993, four people tragically died.

Train Hard Fight Easy Winners Never Give Up

"They don't want to send us anywhere" a year later Iraq and Afghanistan for 16 +years.

Sgt Thompson is sharp as a knife....proper old school

804 Squad ! To your duties,Quick Mark,,,me back in Oct 1964…

Ruined by shit music

Respect. X para

They were a really shit troop. I remember being in CTCRM for a course and they’re team told us how crap they were.

Oh diddums ! I knew one of the blokes on this he ended up a sniper at 42 recce. My troop. He was a good lad. Didn’t do that long in the Corps though.

It’s been 13 years since this video... I wonder how the social experiment has worked out.

Rip Nathaniel Burton.

The officer is just part of the PC brigade, if its not broken don't try and fix it.

Nothing like a good old fucking beasting

Training is hard and the training team beast the lads for a reason...... it drums into them that being lazy, making mistakes, general sloppiness etc.... gets people killed in combat. If you get soft on recruits, they won't do as they're told and discipline will break down causing chaos.

To be honest, I think if you start being softer on Royal Marines recruits, the exceptionally high standard of Marines will drop. It's tough because their job is tough..... the Royal Marines basic training is the longest and toughest basic training in the World, it produces top quality fighting soldiers for a reason. The Royal Marines are envied throughout the World because of their training........ don't mess with their training methods. 🇬🇧🇬🇧✌✌