The following simply states that they are excited about joining the brigade and are wanting to become a fully trained commando battalion:
Soldiers from the Devon and Dorsets and the Royal Gloucestershire, Berkshire and Wiltshire Light Infantry are already conducting extra physical training in preparation to become part of the Royal Marines tough 3 Commando Brigade, which at its core has three formations of about 550 men each.
The battalion's officers and men have been unable to hide their excitement at joining the commando brigade but they will be disappointed at the role the Marines have proposed for them.
Under plans seen by The Daily Telegraph, the wartime role of 1 Rifles will be to protect rear head quarters and supply depots and guard prisoners of war. At best they will be allowed to defend a port or oil refinery after it has been stormed by Marines in helicopters or assault landing craft.
"There is the option of them coming across as fully fledged commandos with the same kind of equipment and training as us," a senior Marine officer said.
"But it's a non-starter as the Army don't have the right calibre of people to do that and we don't have the capacity or space to train a battalion of 600 men."
It also states that it is the Navy/Marines stopping them from becoming commando trained due to lack of facilities."Our view is to get stuck in and become commandos but the Navy seem to have rather backward approach where they see them as poor second cousins who will free up the commandos to go off and do special operations," an Army source said.
As stated before: No one should hold the title commando unless they have passed the course. However all the Telegraph article say is that due to cost/overstreact they will not be commando trained and landed with all the shite jobs/tours, and this has somewhat rightly left the Regiments displeased.
Question: Why haven't D&D & RGBW been converting over and shifting men in and out of the said battalions long before now in attempt to produce a battalion capable of becoming commando trained? If they were commando trained before they were due to join the brigade this wouldn't even be an issue.
Artist or any other Marine, Do Fleet Protection have to be commando trained, I understand they have to be Marines? If not would it be possible to re-roll 43 back into 3 brigade and raise some sort of Royal Marine light infantry battalion (could even rebadge an existing Army unit) to cover fleet protection?
