Royal Marines train to tackle pirates, drug traffickers and terrorists

Marines from 42 Commando have been honing their skills in Staffordshire.
Working in the day and night, 42 Commando and helicopter pilots practiced their fast-roping skills and moved into mock scenarios of high tension and civil unrest.
Briohny Williams has more.
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[@anlerden4851]

I love Royal British Marines so much.

[@vulkunvision]

They are sick, love my country

[@somebawldy3789]

Ok calm down youll give yourself a heart attack

[@jman-f5b]

Till the Russian comes..

[@Angel_423]

@@jman-f5b haha. Have you seen how there doing against a poorly trained ukraine. The Royal Marines would decimate the Russians

[@darkpool6319]

@@jman-f5b Russians can't even stop Ukrainian farmers 😂

[@terrypoole7978]

Highly Trained.when the soldier wants to go further they go selection. Respct.

[@daveratcliffe1016]

Marines go to SBS, Army soldiers go to SAS.

[@terrypoole7978]

@@daveratcliffe1016 Marines go Regiment slection.before gaing admittance to the frogs.same with SAS Boat troop they undergo training by the Special Boat Service.

[@TheMitchy93]

@@daveratcliffe1016 You’ll go where they need you, but you do get a choice, there’s army in the SBS and vice versa

[@jd8226]

@@daveratcliffe1016 there’s plenty of bootnecks badged for Hereford and plenty of army commandos badged for Poole. You apply for whoever you want. They don’t even run separate briefing courses anymore

[@somebawldy3789]

@@daveratcliffe1016 What are you talking about 😂😂😂😂 civvies thinking they know better again Its a joint special forces selection meaning you choose where you wanna go What a daft uneducated comment

[@merlin6955]

SAS, Para's, Royal Marines, Royal Scots, RAF snipers, Gurka's - to name just a few should be enough to cause an outbreak of diarrhea in many opposing them on any ground.

[@somebawldy3789]

What 😂😂😂😂😫😂😂

[@user-oc2lu5sv7e]

Yes to right.. The household division don't mess about either, Coldstream, Grenadier, Scots, Irish, Welsh foot guards, plus the Blues n royals, and Life guards. 👍😉

[@markwatters6875]

Learn the lessons well all. Run fast, keep low and shoot straight 🇦🇺

[@somebawldy3789]

Also dont forget to load your weapon system with live rounds

[@salsaniggas8544]

Use the knoife

[@TheCerebralDude]

Go RMs!! Love from America

[@loquacious-]

stop underfunding the military. boost military spending now.

[@leelicayan2549]

I think you're preaching to the choir

[@aleccap5946]

Idiot Johnson is cutting 20,000 from the military

[@somebawldy3789]

Go to 10 downing street and crack on fella

[@aleccap5946]

@@NA-gf1zy 20,000 if Bojo gets his way, we could use them guarding all those unidentified illegal migrants that keep coming here. At this rate might as well leave the door open

[@cm-pr2ys]

Bring back 41 and 44 Commando

[@winstonchurchill6506]

Drug traffickers and terrorists and thats just in our united kingdom cheers boris

[@88meineliebe54]

Respect guys

[@henriyoung3895]

God Bless all SF.

[@nathanielwhite8769]

Great Stuff, Now we need a large Royal Marines recruitment drive please!👍

[@kevintravis5123]

great reporting ..thanks

[@As.11.11]

It's a new era where this basic training would have been the sas standered years back now this is just levels

[@somebawldy3789]

Trainings got harder fella not easier through the years

[@somebawldy3789]

And if the entry requirements for the infantry were the same as the SAS hardly anyone would be in the infantry

[@slideup610]

@@somebawldy3789 that’s what he’s saying

[@somebawldy3789]

@@slideup610 aghhh ok fair enoigh

[@haroldmerewether1224]

Why not human traffickers in France?

[@somebawldy3789]

Not their job

[@murphy7801]

Not like UK doesn't have human trafficking lol

[@monkeydank7842]

End the war on drugs. It would help many problems.

[@johnlustig4322]

Why do the Royal Marines play disco music while fighting? Very confusing...........

[@no-oneinparticular7264]

why

[@somebawldy3789]

This is forces news editing not the Royal marines Not very bright are you lol

[@Cous1nJack]

@@somebawldy3789 another joke gone over your head…

[@GAFloppa]

Looks like Swynnerton?

[@cdrsss]

No-one appears to be have noticed they've dumped the SA80 and are training with a C8 (Colt, previously Diemaco).

[@Sensiseagal]

SA80 is still in use they just pick the best suited weapon for the given operation

[@afriendlycadian9857]

sa80 is the more standard weapon used by the regiments they still use them but they arent the best for all the situations that the royal marine commandos do, your bog standard regiment still uses them

[@HeavyHanded]

It's not a secret, they started moving over to the C8 a while ago as part of the future commando program, 43 commando have been using the C8 for years.

[@davep7589]

Would these guys protect the government or the people? Seeing as once they retire the government won't look after them but the people would

[@bremnersghost948]

Wildcat looks like a Top bit of Kit

[@paulwolfie4395]

Cracking guys!!!..... they are the best 👌 👍 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🍻👍

[@andrewdaley3081]

In advance of the six weeks holidays. 🇬🇧👍😂🤣

[@andreedowns4561]

AND EVERY ONE KNOWS WHY !!!!

[@Deadbread650]

never drop a cross on the floor against pirates or they will see where you drop

[@somebawldy3789]

Its training are you struggling to see the difference

[@Cous1nJack]

@@somebawldy3789 he’s joking. That’s the difference.

[@reuben8140]

@@somebawldy3789 ❌

[@carlseddon2392]

Don't know if I like there new uniform. It's cryo isn't it. I understand they wanted to look different from the army and the RAF etc. It's American isn't it

[@hbombharry]

The elite

[@rickyyanto6181]

TaIiban can only laugh at my behavior grandma's troops... 😂🤣

[@somebawldy3789]

Are you ok ?

[@aleccap5946]

WOW, love these guys, a few years ago (2012) a few came back from Afghanistan, my boy was in the army cadets and I asked one of them, they couldn't be more helpful putting camo on my boys face. Having camo put on by a royal marine commando just back from a war zone. My only wish, chuck Boris out before he does some serious harm to our country, and sort our armed forces out

[@fredholmes6284]

The Labour party would hav the lot on the dole !

[@thetruthhurts7675]

Boris is the only PM to put money into the British forces for Decades. With his increased spending we are now spending more than Russia, which makes us number three in the world. Boris has modernised the British forces so that the equipment is the most up to date anywhere, the Royal navy is the largest European navy, and the most modern, whilst the Challenger is getting complete upgrades, which Labour would all turn around and squander that money on unecessary ideas that all fail. The RAF has the most modern aircraft fleet in the world, and the Army is getting the most modern equipment, what more exactly could anyone else do?

[@somebawldy3789]

Cool story grandad

[@aleccap5946]

​@Ricky Miller You're not buzzing my reply eh

[@aleccap5946]

​@@thetruthhurts7675 wow so we obviously don't need the 20,000 he's cutting from the army then ? At this rate, back to pitch fork and shouting out bang. Do they still pick up spent carriages and buy their own equipment ?

[@johntait491]

Pleasing to hear those officers speaking without a confected plummy accent as it used to be the case.

[@MICHAEL-wg2lh]

When are they off to Westminster then ?

[@Deadbread650]

aim to attack enemy compounds at 3-4 am American time and they will be at their weakest

[@tigeratlas]

“Drug traffickers” ( but only those who don’t occupy halls of government and big pharma😂😂😂😂.). We need an army for the people, not elitists.

[@terryreknaw6152]

👍👍

[@afriendlycadian9857]

an army for the people and the people in charge has hardlt got a good track record

[@hivaladeen4892]

Bla bla bla. Do you know what the definiton of trafficker is? Hate them or love them, Big Pharmaceutical companies are important. And have been directly or indirectly responsible for the medicine you’re prescribed. It’s all down with big pharma till you need an inhaler to breath or beta blockers for your heart

[@terryreknaw6152]

@@hivaladeen4892 Keep telling yourself that. 😂

[@hivaladeen4892]

@@terryreknaw6152 you’re telling me AstraZeneca for example, has done more harm than good? you seem to forget that without them, you’d be out of a lot of life saving medications. And it’s an industry where you can’t just have little craft family “mum and pop” businesses creating MRNI vaccines. It’s “Big Parma” because it needs to be big to achieve any scale in R&D. But it’s edgier to say boo big Pharma, all bad, no good. Go defund the police whilst your at it.

[@michaelmacleod4713]

🇬🇧✌🏻🇬🇧✌🏻🇬🇧

[@magna4100]

"UK entitled persons????" WTF?

[@richardextall2002]

How about facing the Tory Party?

[@rickybadu2]

The music is truly naff🤮

[@afd19850]

Not an L85 in sight! Bliss. We need more L119A1/2’s

[@danielshannon961]

only the fake enemies had them

[@mackliniusthe1st467]

Royal Marines are switching over to the L119A2/2's due to their new kit upgrade. A3 is still a good weapon though, but the new rifle they are getting makes complete sense for the new operations they'll be undertaking.

[@homomorphic]

They need a gofundme to raise money for some proper protest actors.

[@murphy7801]

Also why we setting milltary on protesters.

[@homomorphic]

@@murphy7801 because they are the enemy.

[@colinjames2346]

The Royal Navy, of which the Royal Marines are a part, is currently facilitating an invasion of England across the English Channel. Thanks!

[@beikdw5762]

They are training to suppress civil unrest within the U.K. due to the potential upcoming economic depression. Where else would the Royal Marines be deployed internationally that they’d need these skills?

[@MrErnestsKarlsons]

Have you noticed that UK commandos are training in UA or in similar landscaped country and they all are wearing yellow armbands like UA army? So, what really they are training for?

[@jonathanrussell594]

Russia.

[@MrErnestsKarlsons]

@@jonathanrussell594 exactly!

[@5taunch]

😂

[@anecdotal_mattybs5435]

Training in Ukraine??? 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ nugget! Training in U.K. If there are similarities in terrain then maybe we should try to change the colour of the skies and the grass and trees? 😂

[@GlasgowGallus]

They're not training in the Ukraine: they, and other branches of our military, are training Ukrainian personnel here in the UK. The armbands are just identifiers in the training exercises. And it's no secret that our forces are training to engage Russia... The new Army Chief of General Staff here has been on the news all week saying just that very thing... 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@jerrycann8006]

I remember when we trained properly back in the 80s. Nothing but pop guns and feelings now.

[@no-oneinparticular7264]

really?

[@jerrycann8006]

@@no-oneinparticular7264 really.

[@anecdotal_mattybs5435]

Sweat

[@tomje7024]

If you’re an ex bootneck, ask if you can go down to 42 for the day, I’m sure the lads there would change your mind.

[@bootneck4828]

Cheers dits

[@SteveInsidious]

Learn to turn back illegal immigrants in dinghies.

[@johndanskine2209]

We're full!

[@anecdotal_mattybs5435]

Learn to insert pointless political “feels” for political advertising?

[@simonhool3073]

“Illegal immigrants” There is no such thing. Go educate yourself.

[@WillHoward2002]

@@simonhool3073 Ever heard of legal paperwork? Go educate yourself.

[@SteveInsidious]

@@simonhool3073 ❄

[@eamonnglover100]

How about training them to guard the border?

[@Rampagedd]

A sharp dagger blunted by wokeness. Good luck boys, don't die for people that think pronouns and virtue signalling are more important than your life.

[@fc90airrescue90]

e

[@grantsapain]

Better start training to take on the Russian army...

[@Keithemery889]

The army, navy and airforce need to join the people of this country in solidarity against Tory corruption and nepotism, soldiers are underpaid public workers… don’t be like the police and blindly serve a state which cares so little about the working class…

[@peterstubbs5934]

Lets hope they dont all surrender again like they did in the Straits of Hormuz with a helo overhead and a warship just over the horizon....

[@stuartwilliams7912]

That wasn't marines numbnuts it was sailors and it was they only thing they could do you don't fire first unless under mortal danger .

[@rockyroadblues100]

Didnt do much gud against the IRA though

[@bordersw1239]

Who? 😂

[@user-oc2lu5sv7e]

Yes they did... Look at Chris Thrall, didn't do anything good against the IRA.. Course they did..