Cymru Commandos

72 years ago on the 4th December 1951, 52 members of the Chatham Royal Marine Cadets, aged between 9-13yrs, were marching at the side of the road in full uniform when a double-decker bus collided with their Company along Dock Road, Chatham. 24 Royal Marine Cadets lost their lives and 18 were injured.
The company were marching from Melville Barracks to the Royal Naval Barracks, Chatham, to attend a boxing tournament.
The cadets were marching three abreast on the left-hand side of the road, dressed in uniform wearing Royal Marines standard-issue dark blue battledress and berets.
A military funeral was held for 20 of the boys that lost their lives, at Rochester Cathedral on the 12th December 1951, the other four boys having private Catholic funerals. Thousands of local people lined the route of the funeral procession and gathered outside the Cathedral.
Every year on the Sunday closest to the event, the Chatham Marine Cadet Unit holds a memorial parade at the cemetery where the cadets were laid to rest.
Forever remembered

3 Standards for Royal Marines Training

Please note that these are standards you should AIM for.

Not the be all end all.

But from my experience, having these things in the locker will put you in good stead going forwards.

Have a scroll through, identify your weak areas. Make a plan and execute.

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A Royal Marines sniper team has brought a Caribbean drug-runners' power boat to a "juddering halt" after shooting out its engines.
US Coast Guard personnel, working alongside the sailors and marines on board Royal Navy destroyer HMS Dauntless, were then able to seize £60m worth of co***ne, which the smugglers had been attempting to throw overboard.
The Portsmouth-based destroyer has now taken her tally to more than £200m worth of illegal narcotics intercepted after hunting down the 35ft vessel.
The Royal Navy said: "During a routine counter-narcotics patrol of the Caribbean Sea, Dauntless launched her Wildcat helicopter and Royal Marines sniper team to close in on the suspect craft.
"When smugglers began to jettison their illegal cargo, their engines were taken out with precision by the commando snipers, bringing the boat to a juddering halt.
"That allowed a US Coast Guard team to be dispatched from Dauntless and 11 large bales of co***ne weighing 330kg to be seized."

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RMFA STANDARDS

These are some of the standards I try to hold my athletes to when they’re going to CPC.

Not only does being above the minimums stand you in good stead for that second day.

But it also increases confidence on an already nerve racking journey down there.

If you can hit these. The RMFA should be nothing more than a box ticking exercise.

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"If you can dodge a wrench you can dodge a ball!" Yesterday the team were supporting Unit sport as hosted the Dodgeball Championships. It was a great turnout from the Unit’s, taking part in a sport where you can legally attack the opposing team. A fantastic afternoon was had by all and congratulations to the PT Staff who were the eventual winners.

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Fair one https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/6cbf21ca-4f3a-11ee-974b-e2b9321088c0?shareToken=efd163b62e4dc9ca52f54ebfb064fcaf

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Did you know that now holds all Air Defence capability for the UK Commando Force? In these photos you can see Air Defence Troop showcasing their equipment alongside other members of the force at Lulworth Range a few weeks ago.

Air Defence Troop moved to from 30 Commando IX GP RM last year. It is fully manned by Commandos - in these photos you can see them utilising Starstreak MANPADs. Integrated Air Defence is crucial to UKCF for operating in contested battlespace and conducting high risk operations, where air superiority cannot be relied on.

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Commandos during fieldcraft training at the Commando Training Depot 1943. Original wartime caption: Fieldcraft Training : Personal concealment is the object of fieldcraft. In this exercise, the task of the troops is to attack and destroy a troublesome enemy strongpoint, therefore, personal concealment, until near enough to storm the strong point is vital, if the operations is to be a success. Commandos, without a sound, and, or being observed by the enemy, crawl towards their objective. 📷IWM

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Men of No. 3 Commando during street fighting training in the East End of London, 1944, in preparation for Operation Overlord, the Allied invasion of North West Europe. Among the most active units in the Second World War they saw action in Norway, France, Sicily, Italy, and Germany. 📷

Royal Marines have been pictured during a training exercise likened to a scene from the post-apocalyptic Mad Max films.
British troops took part in the five-day mock exercise in the surroundings of a quiet airfield at Merryfield in Somerset.
They were tasked with protecting an Oshkosh tanker carrying precious oil supplies.
The exercise has been likened to the Mad Max movies first made famous in the 1980s with Mel Gibson's portrayal of Max Rockatansky.
Tom Brady took on the lead role in 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road when the franchise was rebooted.
A Royal Navy spokesperson said: 'Imagine heavily-armed armoured vehicles attempting to form a ring of steel around an Oshkosh tanker filled with fuel, roaring down a wide highway.
'Not a scene from post-apocalyptic Mad Max movies, but Royal Marines testing their ability to support helicopters in the field.
'For five days the relatively quiet airfield at Merryfield in Somerset was dominated by the rattle of gunfire, the clatter and rumble of heavy vehicles, and the smell of burned aviation fuel as personnel in a small, highly-specialised unit demonstrated their collective abilities.'

Mourners paid their respects today to a heroic D-Day veteran who died just days before his 99th birthday. Ted Owens had lived all his life in Pembroke Dock, and on Thursday people in the town and members of the armed forces lined the streets to pay their respects at his funeral.
Former Admiralty worker Ted was just 18 years old when he joined 41 Royal Marine Commandos during the Second World War. On June 6, 1944, Ted landed on Sword Beach, Normandy, in the initial wave of advances. But within 30 minutes of landing the now 19-year-old Royal Marine Commando's tank was hit by a shell on the beach, causing dozens of pieces of metal to become embedded in his shoulder, chest, and back – 14 of which were never removed.
Initially, his colleagues thought he had been killed, but when they saw his eyes move he was evacuated and spent two and a half months at a hospital in Caerphilly with shoulder, back, and chest wounds. After recovering and being given five days' leave, he was sent back to his unit and was wounded twice more in battles.
The former fireman was given a fitting send-off on Thursday (August 10) as before the funeral, a fire engine led Ted's coffin out of the local fire station. Standard bearers then walked in front of the hearse as it made its way from Garrison Chapel to St John's Church for the service of celebration and thanksgiving.
Close friend, Greg Lewis, said at the funeral: "It is easy to say that as we pay our final respects to him, we are saying goodbye to a connection to our history. Very easy, but very true. Ted had grown up in Pembroke Dock before the wars. He saw the smoke and flame above the town when the Luftwaffe bombed the oil tanks. He experienced the war up front. He was a history book.