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Hi,

I have been looking around the forum for a while now and have picked up some really useful information. My question is i've just turned 27 and i have wanted to join the Marines for a couple of years and i can't see myself doing anything else, but last year i dislocated my collar bone and tore the ligaments in my shoulder. I had surgery on it a few months ago but it didn't go as planned so i have to go through it again in a couple of months.
Which means it won't be till around December before i can even attempt training again and i lost so much fitness from the first surgery, and if i do apply i will be approaching 28. I know there are older guys who apply but is 28 just a bit to old, and how would i be looked at been alot older than most of the other guys. Thanks and any advice would be really appreciated.

so long as you can go down there and do what is required of you then I don't see what difference it makes, it's not as if your an old knacker for christs sake. You can join right up to the day of your 33rd birthday so you are well within the restrictions

jim

Sedd 28

In some ways you will have an advantage over the younger lads. Experience of Life being just one.

Conversely you may find it a tad hard to live in the same room as five other lads who in some cases may well be ten years your junior and have a rather different attitude towards life.

I joined at 17 years of age and back then the cut of point was 27 years of age. However, we had one bloke who was 30 years old. He had transferred from (I think) the Royal Engineers. Sad to say he didn't last the course and was binned due to injury. But even so he was a steadying influence on us younger lads whilst we found out feet during the first few weeks of training.

But all thats beside the point really. If you want to be a Royal Marines Commando then your only option is to apply and do it int it then? If you don't your going to spend the rest of your life wondering if you should have.