Royal Marines prepare for deployment with night reconnaissance mission

Royal Marines from 47 Commando have been conducting training exercises in the Solent to prepare some of the youngest marines for their first deployment with the corps.
The exercise, part of the Landing Craft 3s Course, involves operating offshore raiding craft and inflatable raiding craft and culminates in a close target reconnaissance mission conducted at night.
The course spans 12 weeks and covers various aspects, from checking the mechanics of the craft to understanding tidal streams and their impact on missions at sea.
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[@da90sReAlvloc]

Royal marines still the best marines in the world

[@vipiccb6896]

@VIPICCB8 Michael Pezzullo the Italian teenager who claimed to be a US War veteran with more pathetic anti-British hate and lies

[@vipiccb6896]

@VIPICCB8 Michael Pezzullo the teenage Italian incel with more vile anti-British xenophobia and racist hate

[@RJM1011]

WELL DONE to ALL of them. 👍

[@TheLastCrumb.]

All the training in the world is pointless without the right equipment and enough of it. Still proud of the servicemen and women themselves

[@harryfoxley763]

i dont agree, i mean look at the vietcong

[@davidhouseman4328]

I'd take well trained with poor equipment over the opposite. But of course we should have both.

[@StephenButlerOne]

​@@harryfoxley763the vietcong had amazing logistic lines and as much weapons and munitions they asked for from communist china, and probably Russia, but I can't remember about the Russians off the top of my head.

[@TheLastCrumb.]

@@StephenButlerOne plus a totally different type of war to what we’ll probably end up in. Jungle warfare is much harder to advance through and easier to defend in. You’re not driving tanks in the jungle etc.

[@DirtyMikeandTheBoys69]

​@harryfoxley763 the Viet Cong were completely slaughtered by the US during the Tet Offensive and were never again a primary combatant. They were also heavily supplied by the USSR and China, and the Ho Chi Mihn trail kept their resources flowing.
It's also well to note that while Communism would eventually take over the country, they didn't achieve this while at war with the United States. The US forced the NVA into a peace agreement (Paris Peace Accords) which the NVA would eventually break two years later after the US had withdrawn.

[@jesslupton-pike8415]

My boy ❤ so proud 😊,

[@jimmyhackers8980]

would wars still happen without any soldiers?
i wouldnt be that proud

[@Kevin-ur3fc]

@@jimmyhackers8980 shut up you melt

[@harryfoxley763]

@@jimmyhackers8980 as we have seen with ukraine it is extremely necessary to have soldiers

[@jimmyhackers8980]

@@harryfoxley763 yes, any war needs soldiers, on both sides, no soldiers = no war
....dont be a tool

[@mehf649]

@@jimmyhackers8980 don’t be a fool…

[@matthewbaynham6286]

If they need to be quiet and not be detected, then why not have hybrid engines on those boats?
So when stealth is important they can use electric power to come in under the cover of darkness in complete silence, and if they need to move fast they can switch on the petrol engine. I could hear the sound of the engines when the reporter was saying how important it was to be quiet.

[@ibrahimyaacob2611]

Thank you the Royal marine commando who used to trained and send a good instructor to start the GGK Malaysian Army Special Forces Group (GGK). during the 2nd emergency by communist Guerilla who hide in a thick jungle between Thailand and Malaysian border..
and Thank you to the SAS who trained the Malaysian Police Commando in 1969 ( VAT 69.) in Malaysia..

[@Jeff-bg7pt]

Lovely matchwood 😅

[@IO-zg8md]

Evening raid on Monty's Inn 🏴‍☠

[@roo1234]

Do they get taught navigation? So they don’t accidentally attack a Spanish beach.

[@garagenigel]

They know how to navigate to the tailors in Tehran! 😉

[@coxnballs]

I didn't know marines got to do stuff like this straight out of training. I thought you had to join a specialist unit like 47 or 30IX to do actual commando stuff.

[@garagenigel]

Lol!

[@user-ss2dt6gt5f]

why do you think each unit has “commando” in the name😂? you don’t do commando training to then just do regular military things

[@coxnballs]

@@user-ss2dt6gt5f I was under the impression that the bulk of the Corps is just excessively trained infantry; Commando trained and fit but only ever doing boring squaddie stuff. This probably originates from RM documentaries in Afghanistan showing them carrying out tasks I'd expect assigned to a company of guards/infantry.

[@Jake-pm3pz]

@@coxnballs Under the FCF program they have now returned to their commando role again and are taking on many of the traditional tasks of the SAS and SBS alongside a new Army Ranger Regiment

[@StephenButlerOne]

Wearing their lids like 45 I see.

[@2007lewis2007]

Nothing on the paras

[@garagenigel]

😂😂

[@jimmyhackers8980]

enemies: "stocking up on cheap flares"

[@cypeman8037]

Have they just realised it gets dark so we’d better train for that?

[@zzzo4509]

So where they deploying?

[@guy-on-a-ch]

First

[@the_astraios]

No one cares

[@jn5433]

I was first in your mum

[@reccerat4446]

So falling over backwards into water is apparently scary, who knew ehh. And yeah I guess if you don't want to be seen, best do it in the dark, again who knew! Stunning bunch of nonsense.

[@garagenigel]

Thick as mince!