Hi Kentaganus, its the 'idiot' here :D. I was indeed joking, I thought that was pretty obvious but I suppose its quite easy to get the wrong end of the stick on internet forums. I totally agree with you and Felias joining the Royal Marines for girls is silly, nay idiotic. I was just attempting to ...

Being a pascifist I'm not joining to kill terrorists or taliban, I'm joining for the girls. I heard Marines get lots of girls , and God knows I'm not getting any at the moment .


p.s. make LOVE not WAR

Thanks for the great diary Chak and well done for passing. In the determination test how many press-ups, sits-ups and burprees are generally in a set? Cheers.

Did anyone else see it? I thought it was a really good documentary from the soldiers perspective. The story of the Royal who wore his girlfriends bra for the landing and was later killed will stick in my mind, as will the footage of burn victims from the bombed ships.

It seems silly now but when I was first starting my research and application I had the impression that I would be on the older end of Royal Marine recruits. I had the idea that they recruited mainly 16 to 18 year olds (I'm 20) however it seems that most of the successful recruits from my AFCO are in ...

Well done Royal, good luck for the future.

Thanks for the excellent info Danger Mouse, it told me what I wanted to know.

One positive about running at 6am - not many d*ckheads in baseball caps shouting abuse thinking they 'ard at that time of the morning


I went for a morning run at about 5:30 last week and was quite surprised to see a trio of chavs walking along a reasonably out of the way road. One of them ...

ramz56,

I'm in Leytonstone, your welcome to train with me any day of the week except Saturday and Wednesday when I do training with a former Royal and another potential. It would good to go running with some one who is faster than me . If your interested PM and we can sort something out.

Good luck, have fun !

Good luck JCAP, the hard work starts now . Let us know how you do.

I mentioned it to my AFCO pretty much as soon as I discovered it, as I found that it answered most of the questions that I had which a non-RM recruiting officer wouldn't be able to. I would urge everyone to tell their AFCO about this site as it could be a major aid to recruits. However I'm not sure ...

Thanks for all the comments guys. I needed to get this of my chest as it did annoy me that I wasn't able to show my AFCO the best that I could do. However I passed, so its not as big a deal as it feels :oops:.

Should be going in to book my PRMC soon, hopefully early April. It would be good to know ...

Hi all, had my PJFT today which I am a bit annoyed at :x , I passed in 9 minutes and 30 seconds which is alright but I could have done much better and was looking for sub 9 minutes. The problem was the treadmill machines they had at the LA Fitness gym in Holborn London didn't go faster than 16 km/h ...

Thats what I'm working for, summed up beautifully. Its an attitude to life. One that is becoming increasingly rare.

Thanks for starting the thread Chas, I think we occassionally need to get back to the basics of what the members of this forum are attempting to achieve and not get too bogged down in ...