Bullying in the royal marines

[Macca]

cheers for that Artist you bomb fanatic haha Nah was a good read mate

[JoeAllen28]

Artist, youve got some cracking tales! keep em coming. i think we should have a sticky thread for them. lol

joe

[Brian-]

Ever thought of writing a book, Artist? Brilliant stuff.

[AJtothemax]

Ever thought of writing a book, Artist? Brilliant stuff.

And while you're at it, claim to be a muslim - you'll get all the media and advertisements!

[Iwonderhowlongmynamecanbe]

Aiiiye brilliant tale Artist

Must of been hell of an explosion haha!!

[mfat_man]

The naked roll mat incident happened at 42 CDORM, all concerned were fully booted and spurred Bootnecks. Not one was a recruit. The guy knocked out was a Cpl. The guy who knocked him out was a L/Cpl and also as it turned out was the Cpl's Oppo. Just give Royal his head and a ruck of booze and things like this happen. In my day mobile phones with videos didn't exist so much of what we did was never seen by the general public.

Me and an Oppo in the seventies both got steaming in the NAAFI one Weekend in Norge and decided to go outside and beat the crap out of each other by heaving great big lumps of frozen wood at each other. He knocked me out with a rather good shot to the head. I woke up back in the bar with my Oppo insisting that he bought the wets for the rest of the night as he'd won. At no stage was there any bad feeling between us.

Lets face it people, Bootnecks don't as a habit sit around and talk about the weather and what they plan to do with the spare room when they get back home. They are basically people trained to fight and kill anybody they are ordered to take on. You get nought for coming second so Bootnecks tend to be right in your face when they are let loose on the World.

It's what Royals done for years. Worked hard and Played hard. It may seem animalistic to the average civvy but to the average Bootneck it's the normal thing to do when let loose with rucks of booze and a need to get things off your chest. As I said before Bullying was/is a no no. Even a hint of it would and could result in the accused finding himself in deep doo doo's with all and sun dri. Ok some times a few HARDCASE'S would get a bit gobby, this normally resulted in them getting a "reminder" from their fellow Bootnecks to wind in their necks.........or else. Just the hint of what would happen if they got to big for their boots was normally enough.

When I joined my first unit there were quite a few of what were called Three Badge Marines, Marines who had done a minimum of 12 years in the Corp and could be trusted to look after the younger Marines, they were called Sea Daddies and most would take a few young lads under their wing and teach them the ways of normal Royal Marine Behaviour. These days the Three Badger is a rarity but even so there is always some older and wiser Marine or NCO who will be a calming influence on the rest of the blokes in the Section.

Sometimes two blokes would for some reason detest each other, the normal routine in my day was to put them in a boxing ring and let them beat the shite out of each other until they were both totally knackered. Most times they would make up and the reasons for the tiff would be forgotten.

Rambled on a bit but I really think this idea that bullying is rife within the Corp be squashed before the rumours and hearsay get right out of hand. The average Bootneck is a bloke who is not going to take shit from anybody regardless of their size or in some cases their rank.

I can relate to my last comment as a certain USMC Staff Sgt attached to our Corp once made the mistake of thinking that as I looked Skin & Essence (young and innocent) that I would be an easy target to pick on. I had attended a Crimbo bash dressed as a Bird and passed myself off as a Three Badge Marines Pash (girlfriend), the Yank was in his own words disgusted with me and thought I was "A Faggot!". The bloke soon found out that rank may have it privileges but it didn't give him the right to try and give me a hard time. So I beat the shit out of him in his office when no one else was about one afternoon. He was sent back to his Corp and I got away with it as no one else witnessed the incident.

Artist

Art

You're a fecking legend we love ya! (In that mately way not...homo-erotic LOL)

[AJtothemax]

The naked roll mat incident happened at 42 CDORM, all concerned were fully booted and spurred Bootnecks. Not one was a recruit. The guy knocked out was a Cpl. The guy who knocked him out was a L/Cpl and also as it turned out was the Cpl's Oppo. Just give Royal his head and a ruck of booze and things like this happen. In my day mobile phones with videos didn't exist so much of what we did was never seen by the general public.

Me and an Oppo in the seventies both got steaming in the NAAFI one Weekend in Norge and decided to go outside and beat the crap out of each other by heaving great big lumps of frozen wood at each other. He knocked me out with a rather good shot to the head. I woke up back in the bar with my Oppo insisting that he bought the wets for the rest of the night as he'd won. At no stage was there any bad feeling between us.

Lets face it people, Bootnecks don't as a habit sit around and talk about the weather and what they plan to do with the spare room when they get back home. They are basically people trained to fight and kill anybody they are ordered to take on. You get nought for coming second so Bootnecks tend to be right in your face when they are let loose on the World.

It's what Royals done for years. Worked hard and Played hard. It may seem animalistic to the average civvy but to the average Bootneck it's the normal thing to do when let loose with rucks of booze and a need to get things off your chest. As I said before Bullying was/is a no no. Even a hint of it would and could result in the accused finding himself in deep doo doo's with all and sun dri. Ok some times a few HARDCASE'S would get a bit gobby, this normally resulted in them getting a "reminder" from their fellow Bootnecks to wind in their necks.........or else. Just the hint of what would happen if they got to big for their boots was normally enough.

When I joined my first unit there were quite a few of what were called Three Badge Marines, Marines who had done a minimum of 12 years in the Corp and could be trusted to look after the younger Marines, they were called Sea Daddies and most would take a few young lads under their wing and teach them the ways of normal Royal Marine Behaviour. These days the Three Badger is a rarity but even so there is always some older and wiser Marine or NCO who will be a calming influence on the rest of the blokes in the Section.

Sometimes two blokes would for some reason detest each other, the normal routine in my day was to put them in a boxing ring and let them beat the shite out of each other until they were both totally knackered. Most times they would make up and the reasons for the tiff would be forgotten.

Rambled on a bit but I really think this idea that bullying is rife within the Corp be squashed before the rumours and hearsay get right out of hand. The average Bootneck is a bloke who is not going to take shit from anybody regardless of their size or in some cases their rank.

I can relate to my last comment as a certain USMC Staff Sgt attached to our Corp once made the mistake of thinking that as I looked Skin & Essence (young and innocent) that I would be an easy target to pick on. I had attended a Crimbo bash dressed as a Bird and passed myself off as a Three Badge Marines Pash (girlfriend), the Yank was in his own words disgusted with me and thought I was "A Faggot!". The bloke soon found out that rank may have it privileges but it didn't give him the right to try and give me a hard time. So I beat the shit out of him in his office when no one else was about one afternoon. He was sent back to his Corp and I got away with it as no one else witnessed the incident.

Artist

Art

You're a fecking legend we love ya! (In that mately way not...homo-erotic LOL)

Nothing wrong with being slightly homoerotic. If you're comfortable with your sexuality then theres no probs what so ever!