Bayonet fighting/Unarmed combat taught at lympstone?

[druadan]

Excuse me mate but you probaby arent very popular with RM recruits. You must be a pongo or something but not everyone is strong enough to join the Marines. And just because your jealous of us, doesnt mean you should put our NCO's down like that because quite frankly they would drop you. RM TILL I DIE

Hankins, JORD, I'm not a regular over here but I'd suggest you wind your necks in before someone snaps them. Banter between RM and Perce is light-hearted, in the military sense, whereas you are using it as an attack on a soldier who has been there and done it. Ribbing and piss taking is fine, attacks are not. You've got a lot of maturing to do if you reckon you'll make decent bootnecks.

Oh, and you will get a lot of stupid comments out of just about everyone in the Corps, from Mne Bloggs through to Brigadiers, everyone has their own opinions and everyone expresses things wrongly sometimes. When you get past training corporals (such as your PTI), whilst having some control over you, will be your mates and have the piss taken out of them as much as you do. Don't take everything people tell you as a given, use your heads, obviously as a nod don't outwardly doubt it but bear in mind that dit value plays a big part in what you hear from everyone in the Corps! Certainly on here keep an open mind, and don't go jumping down people's throats, especially not those who are far more experienced than you.

[jdb2270]

Read some history on human wave attacks and positions possibly going
to be overrun. [/quote]

Hi Chas, Can I help you out?
Is this the action you were talking about? Bayonet fighting defunct? -
No far from it. This report from The Sunday Times. Dated 110704 Ref The PWRR, nee The Queen's Regiment The Royal Hampshire Regiment.

4 British soldiers tell of heroics in textbook attack. by S GREY, AMARA.
SHIELDED only by a narrow bank of baked earth as bullets flew and a grenade exploded ominously close by, Corporal Mark B****, 34, PWRR BG, glanced at the four soldiers who lay sweating on the ground beside him and knew what they had to do.

Fix bayonets! he shouted. We’re going to assault the positions in front. Are you all up for it? There were no objections. With the steel in place on their SA80 rifles, the men of the Princess of Wales’s Royal Regiment (PWRR) charged across 600ft of open ground towards the enemy trenches, taking it in turns to stop and provide covering fire while their comrades advanced.

Cpl By***, from Portsmouth, reached the first trench with another corporal, Brian W**** I wanted to put the fear of God into the enemy, he said.

I could see some dead bodies and eight blokes, some scrambling for their weapons. I have never seen such a look of fear in anyone’s eyes before. I’m over six feet, I was covered in sweat, angry, red in the face, charging in with a bayonet and screaming my head off. You would be scared too.

Three Iraqis further ahead opened fire and Cpl By*** shot two with his rifle. There was a lot of aggression and a lot of hand-to-hand fighting. It wasn’t a pleasant scene, he said some did get cut with the blades of the bayonet as we tumbled around, but in the end they surrendered and were controlled. I do wonder how they regard life so cheaply.

The assault on May 14, described by Cpl B**** as a perfect textbook attack, took place during the Battle of Danny Boy, named after a nearby checkpoint on a road 15 miles south of the city of Amara in southern Iraq.

This battle, which began with three Iraqi ambushes and ended with more than 60 militants believed dead + the CIMIC action was the culmination of one of the most intensive periods of action by a British regiment since the Falklands war in 1982. When the Bn left Iraq it became, and iirc still is the most decorated Regiment in the Army. JB. (late 3 & 2 Queen's Regiment.)

[Wholley]

Answering a three year-old post?
WOW!!!That has to be a record even for this site

[Pilgrim Norway]

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[Pilgrim Norway]

As it is Valentines Day I will let this go with .......

You are talking to a post that has been dead for three years

[Pilgrim Norway]

Old post clog up the board Chef - we don't need them