Fitness Requirements

[Sgt.N.Caunt]

Hey guys. This is my first post. I’m new to this forum. I was just wondering about the entry requirements for officers in the Royal Marines. I have found plenty of stuff relating to the usual marine entry requirements but I have multiple people telling me officers have a harder task i.e. have farther distances to run etc.. I was wondering if anyone knew these requirements or if I’m being led on? I did enquire on the website but as I said I got the normal marine requirements but it said for officer I had to visit a recruiting office to find them out.

Cheers.

[Dogwatch]

Hi mate, have you put an extra a in your screen name without realising
Bit of a piss take to come on a mil forum with Sgt in your name, nothing against the ATC, replies on a postcard etc.

[Sgt.N.Caunt]

o ryte, sorry i didnt really look at any fourms before registering so i just assumed sorta name people would have. replys on a postcard? what does that mean?

[Sgt.N.Caunt]

iv looked at my profile and cant sus out how to change my user name? is there an option to? can i erase my account and start all over again with the same email address?

[Sticky Blue]

Officers run the same distance and yomp the same distance... they just have less time to do it in!

[Sgt.N.Caunt]

any ideas on the time limits then?

cheers

[Sticky Blue]

Fraid not, about a minute off the 3 miler from what I remember

[Sgt.N.Caunt]

okies. i read on the RM careers site that the running stage was a 1.5miles best effort but had to be completed in under 11 min regardles. beofre i had read this i had always thought this was the army test and the RM was much longer. so its a 3miler. better get my jog on.

thanks again.

[Dogwatch]

Have alook here for starters.

http://www.mfat.co.uk/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4874

When you've done that have a trawl through the military fitness and training forum, plenty there.

[Winnie]

I know that the thirty miler has to be done in 7 hrs rather then 8 for officers..

[Sgt.N.Caunt]

your joking! thirty miles! i never even heard of that! 4.28miles an hour. well i can do 2.4km in just over 10min. but that really does me in so thats nothing to go by, god knows what i will be like over 7 hours! your not having me on are you?

cheers

[Prm]

Thats after a good 27-28 weeks training mind.

So long as your as strong in mind, you will pass. (at least I hope )