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Why do the RMR not have any units in NI.
Why do the RMR not have any units in NI.
I have often wondered why there was no RMR in Northern Ireland. I know of nunerous people who would love to join the RMR. There are RMR units up and down the length of Britain, why not Northern Ireland.
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Join the Corps instead
Why not just join full time instead mate? Nothing against rubber daggers but you may as well do it properly if at all
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Re: Join the Corps instead
Ooooh! Don't me started on this oneOakers wrote:....but you may as well do it properly if at all
The RMR complete all the same tests as a regular Marine and are as much a Commando as a regular (Albeit part time
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Sticks has pretty much covered it. Training is a lot different when it's only every other weekend and you can go home at the end of it. It's not a dig at them not by any stretch but what I was saying is that I'm always slightly wary of a guy who wants to play at the weekends but that isn't interested when it becomes a lifestyle. Like I said nothing against the blokes who do it/have done it.
I worked alongside the Reserve Forces Training Team at Lympstone very briefly and saw some very interesting and peculiar things, including the first women to have a crack at it.
Because the guys aren't full time as well they do not put the same time into everything, the mentality is different through training and beyond because they still are when you get down to the basics, Civvies. They spend more time on civvi street than they do training or on Ops.
I've known some great blokes from the RMR but the only point I'm making is that there [i]"is"[/i] a difference
Sticks has pretty much covered it. Training is a lot different when it's only every other weekend and you can go home at the end of it. It's not a dig at them not by any stretch but what I was saying is that I'm always slightly wary of a guy who wants to play at the weekends but that isn't interested when it becomes a lifestyle. Like I said nothing against the blokes who do it/have done it.
I worked alongside the Reserve Forces Training Team at Lympstone very briefly and saw some very interesting and peculiar things, including the first women to have a crack at it.
Because the guys aren't full time as well they do not put the same time into everything, the mentality is different through training and beyond because they still are when you get down to the basics, Civvies. They spend more time on civvi street than they do training or on Ops.
I've known some great blokes from the RMR but the only point I'm making is that there [i]"is"[/i] a difference
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Oakers - when you say:
"I'm always slightly wary of a guy who wants to play at the weekends but that isn't interested when it becomes a lifestyle."
I think thats a bit patronising. I'm sure for a lot of the RMR guy's it's not seen as 'playing' at the weekend and i'm also sure it's not the 'lifestyle' thats stopping them joining full time.
I for one couldn't join as a regular as the money wouldn't be anywhere near enough to pay my mortgage let alone my household bills - and saving for my son's future etc.
You are right though that there is a difference in training - there has to be - RMR have to fit in at the weekend (after a week at work) what the regs can do from 9-5 every day. Thats not to say that we can't practice our drills at work (not stoppage drills i grant you!).
I also think that the RMR guys have to keep their fitness up and avoid injuries for almost two years before most of them get lidded - quite a commitment in my opinion.
I don't know if it compares but when Army instructors take TA lads on courses they always comment that guys in the TA are generally fitter, more motivated and more switched on than their regular counterparts - they are usually a bit older and a bit more mature.
I guess i'll have to wait and see if it's the same in the RM.
Phew. Finished.
Oakers - when you say:
"I'm always slightly wary of a guy who wants to play at the weekends but that isn't interested when it becomes a lifestyle."
I think thats a bit patronising. I'm sure for a lot of the RMR guy's it's not seen as 'playing' at the weekend and i'm also sure it's not the 'lifestyle' thats stopping them joining full time.
I for one couldn't join as a regular as the money wouldn't be anywhere near enough to pay my mortgage let alone my household bills - and saving for my son's future etc.
You are right though that there is a difference in training - there has to be - RMR have to fit in at the weekend (after a week at work) what the regs can do from 9-5 every day. Thats not to say that we can't practice our drills at work (not stoppage drills i grant you!).
I also think that the RMR guys have to keep their fitness up and avoid injuries for almost two years before most of them get lidded - quite a commitment in my opinion.
I don't know if it compares but when Army instructors take TA lads on courses they always comment that guys in the TA are generally fitter, more motivated and more switched on than their regular counterparts - they are usually a bit older and a bit more mature.
I guess i'll have to wait and see if it's the same in the RM.
Phew. Finished.
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Dante as was said, I don't want anyone to take offence to it, it's merely my opinion and if we all thought the same it'd be a pretty boring bloody world wouldn't it mate!
The whole 9-5 thing is precisely what I'm talking about Dante, regs don't work 9-5, it is a 24-7 commitment.
Training for two years and keeping injuries at bay is a lot easier if during that two years you have regular breaks. Not something that regular guys have the luxury of doing, they're bodies aren't given the option nor the ability to rehab. I don't think you can compare the two to be honest mate.
The whole fitter more motivated thing is also something I've never come across. More gung ho and less professional I have though. Not in all obviously, just a small percentage. On the whole they're good blokes and I feel like I'm having to be little their efforts to justify what I said earlier which is not my intention. Any bloke who can call himself a Royal Marine is a brother to me and that's how they'll be treated by me.
RMR basic training is not as intensive, not just physically of course. Whereas a nod may decide to draw his rifle from the armoury in his own time and run through his drills and skills an RMR rank cannot. When you are surrounded by it day in and out it becomes more than a part of you. This is something that RMR ranks do not have as they still have the baggage of civvi street to carry around with them as well.
Once again I must reiterate that this is not a dig at RMR blokes, if you choose to take it that way then tough s**t as I've already explained it's not.
I'm, off now for the weekend so no doubt there will be heaps of abuse waiting for me when I return on Monday so in advance "Wind it"!
Dante, cheers for the feedback, excuse the brevity I have a wet in the bar waiting for me.
The whole 9-5 thing is precisely what I'm talking about Dante, regs don't work 9-5, it is a 24-7 commitment.
Training for two years and keeping injuries at bay is a lot easier if during that two years you have regular breaks. Not something that regular guys have the luxury of doing, they're bodies aren't given the option nor the ability to rehab. I don't think you can compare the two to be honest mate.
The whole fitter more motivated thing is also something I've never come across. More gung ho and less professional I have though. Not in all obviously, just a small percentage. On the whole they're good blokes and I feel like I'm having to be little their efforts to justify what I said earlier which is not my intention. Any bloke who can call himself a Royal Marine is a brother to me and that's how they'll be treated by me.
RMR basic training is not as intensive, not just physically of course. Whereas a nod may decide to draw his rifle from the armoury in his own time and run through his drills and skills an RMR rank cannot. When you are surrounded by it day in and out it becomes more than a part of you. This is something that RMR ranks do not have as they still have the baggage of civvi street to carry around with them as well.
Once again I must reiterate that this is not a dig at RMR blokes, if you choose to take it that way then tough s**t as I've already explained it's not.
I'm, off now for the weekend so no doubt there will be heaps of abuse waiting for me when I return on Monday so in advance "Wind it"!
Dante, cheers for the feedback, excuse the brevity I have a wet in the bar waiting for me.
