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I was Just wondering if after basic training marines are Taught Damage control of HMS vessels as Royal Navel recruits are, ie when thery put into a simulator in which the room turns and shakes and fill with water on board a ship in which they learn to repair damage under life threatening curcumstances???????

Smudger

In your sig it says that the PJFT is your last chance. What happend, is there a limit or something?

Yep Three strikes and your out, same on everthing encluding prmc although if you fail the written test you have to wait 12 months to resit,

http://www.mfat.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=13288

1st one i did took me by suprise i cant explain treadmills there 5h1t itd be better if it was tested on the road, int asif we are goin to roll into battle strapped to treadmills, but got my second one next week wil p155 this one on average i am now running around 30/45 miles per week

With regards to your original post Smudge, I must say I don't know if this is taught to Marines.
It would make sense (in my opinion) to teach it to any Naval personelle who will/may be boarding a ship as it would surely be better to have everyone on board know what they're doing if it starts to go down.

Saw a video of this when I was at my AFCO and it looks like a right laugh!

When you get drafted to a Warship you do what is called a PET course (Pre Embarkation Training). Mostly done at RM Poole. But you do go, or did go to some place in Portsmouth. In my day it was called HMS Pheonix where you discovered the joys of shoring up bulkheads and the use of the firefighting equipment found on all Grey Funnel Line Ships.

I have a video series called "commando" which follows a troop through training. At the ending credits of one of the episodes it shows a cylinder with two doors being dropped into a pool with recruits inside.

Don't know if they're marine recruits but it looks like lots of fun

Mike, I think what you saw was the Helicopter evacuation drills. Its a huge 'cylinder' the same size as the holding area in a helicopter that you will use once you are a marine. It starts off in the water (attached to the ceiling) and then the recruits hop in. The cylinder then proceeds to tip upside down and goes underwater. The recruits then have to wait 10 or so seconds before they can evacuate via the windows or doors. The point in this is so if you chopper goes down in the water for real, you will be prepaired and know not to leave before 10 seconds (or however long it is). Something to do with once you first hit the water its hard to open the doors. Its the same if your car goes into water your suposed to wait until your a fair distance underwater before trying to open the door (unless your bobbing about on the surface!). Looks like a laugh!

Sorry if this post doesnt make sense, im more interested/intreagued with the black stuff floating around in my drink

Yea i've seen the helicopter drills, looks really fun!

I think it's done at RM Poole.

Not heard of the Damage Control though, although it does sound interesting.

Cheers artist, i was just thinking about it and it wouldnt look good if a unit of bootnecks were stood scratching the arse as HMS Ocean was going down.....

smudge

Have a mate who has been unlucky enough to have put his firefighting skills to use in a Submarine, twice said it made his arsehole spasm with fear.

Firefighting in a confined space is not my idea of fun, ill take a freezing cold dunk tank in a helicopter fuselage over that any day of the week.

digitalfreefall wrote:
Firefighting in a confined space is not my idea of fun, ill take a freezing cold dunk tank in a helicopter fuselage over that any day of the week.

If your going to join the Corp then expect to spend a fair amount of time on the Oggin. Tis what Bootnecks do.

Artist wrote:

If your going to join the Corp then expect to spend a fair amount of time on the Oggin. Tis what Bootnecks do.[/quote]

Artist, as long as its on the Oggin and not under it, im happy.

Artist were you onboard the Ashanti when we had the fry up in the boiler room ?

SMOKING wrote:Artist were you onboard the Ashanti when we had the fry up in the boiler room ?

No SMOKING. Once had a Banyan in the spud locker on the ZULU mind!

Jolly Jack..........No sense of humour whatsoever.

Mike The Sceptic wrote:I have a video series called "commando" which follows a troop through training. At the ending credits of one of the episodes it shows a cylinder with two doors being dropped into a pool with recruits inside.

Don't know if they're marine recruits but it looks like lots of fun

Just wondering if you, or anybody else on here knows where you got that from mate I've been looking for some video's/dvd's about the marines and anything to do with training or anything like that just to watch it but cant find any anywhere, got a few on the SAS klike them in action and stuff but cant find any to do with marines?