maybe a little if I'm honest.
I know i was only there for 13 weeks. But I also know that those 13 weeks are going to be fresh in my memory for a long long time.
The marines getting imprinted onto you, from day one.
dave
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training update: week 13 THE END
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Alright mate, I am studying sports science at college and going to university after the course has finished. Just wanna let you know that its well worth it if your going for sports science. I think sports development students get loads of assignments but sports science students get less assignments, just that they are more detailed.
Good luck,
Mitch
Good luck,
Mitch
I did National Diploma in Outdoor Education and it was wicked! 2 days practical a week (Monday and Tuesday) and the rest of the week doing assignments (Wednesday is half a day as is Friday!) The practicals usually consisted of climbing or kayaking but also walking, archery, orienteering. I think it is a great course for someone looking to go into the military.
Cheers
James
Cheers
James
Alright Dave chin up, didnt notice you were on here but nevermind. Training is same old same old although aint quite the same as most people are leaving so theres only 19 of us originals left, troop only stands at 31 and im sure after easter leave a few more will opt out. Hope it all works out well for you and ill keep in touch.
Well,
As this is now turning into an opt out thread, i might as well chuck my pennies worth in. I left at week ten(well finished training at end of week 8 ), and went to uni and did a Sports education course. I kind of knew i DID and DID NOT want to leave, as i was in two minds before i joined as to whether i should have got a degree first, and that surfaced again when i was on summer leave. Anyway the reasons dont matter in the end, as i opted out.
Do i regret it? Looking at the whole picture NO, as i now nearly have my degree.
Did i miss it? YES, hugely and very often wish i was back there cracking on with it.
But at the end of the day now i have completed my education which i really do think i will use in the future, and i also have the opportunity to re-join, which i most certainly am.
I guess everyone is different and leave for different reasons, and for some it is the right decision, and for some not, some go back and some dont. All i would say is, to those who are going down soon or who are there now, really, really think hard about the reasons you are thinking about leaving, dont just make a rash decision because its farkin hard. Like beardo says, its designed to make you want to wrap,its meant to be hard, so dont leave because of that, as i guarantee you will almost certainly end up re-joining. I would say the majority of people who wrap end up regretting it, and possibly for ever.
Dwarfy,
As this is now turning into an opt out thread, i might as well chuck my pennies worth in. I left at week ten(well finished training at end of week 8 ), and went to uni and did a Sports education course. I kind of knew i DID and DID NOT want to leave, as i was in two minds before i joined as to whether i should have got a degree first, and that surfaced again when i was on summer leave. Anyway the reasons dont matter in the end, as i opted out.
Do i regret it? Looking at the whole picture NO, as i now nearly have my degree.
Did i miss it? YES, hugely and very often wish i was back there cracking on with it.
But at the end of the day now i have completed my education which i really do think i will use in the future, and i also have the opportunity to re-join, which i most certainly am.
I guess everyone is different and leave for different reasons, and for some it is the right decision, and for some not, some go back and some dont. All i would say is, to those who are going down soon or who are there now, really, really think hard about the reasons you are thinking about leaving, dont just make a rash decision because its farkin hard. Like beardo says, its designed to make you want to wrap,its meant to be hard, so dont leave because of that, as i guarantee you will almost certainly end up re-joining. I would say the majority of people who wrap end up regretting it, and possibly for ever.
Dwarfy,
Well i gotta say that much is bloody obvious!As most of you guys who do actually wrap instead of diggin' out that little bit extra are always on websites and forums like these!dwarfy wrote:I would say the majority of people who wrap end up regretting it, and possibly for ever. Dwarfy,
Anyone,surely,who wanted to leave the Corps before theyd even passed out and rid it out of their system,wouldn't be on here everyday spinning dits about how they almost made it.
And as for making that special decision of whether to crack on or wrap...WTF!!
Maybe it's more important making the decision before you actually go in.Say to yourselves, "Im joining the Royal Marines,it aint gonna be bloody easy no matter how fit i am".If you're in any doubt,chances are you'll be lost along the way.You just gotta think if you actually want to do it,the only thing that will make you physically leave,is actually getting booted out and thats it.
The old SF saying..."They cant kill you & they can't make you pregnant".If you honestly want to crack it,have a bit of balls about you and be a man
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Agree with Tugg on this one.
Whats the point of coming on a website like this just to tell people how close you got to the Coverted Green Lid? Anyone can be a failure.
It don't matter a jot when you wrapped. Be it week 1 or week 31. The fact is that you wrapped. Thats it Endex.
I can always remember at week 12 all the guys who were not sure sat in this one grot talking about wrapping as at that stage you could buy yourself out for twenty five quid. Most were led by the stronger willed people into wrapping. One bloke in fact left on the friday and was back on the monday. His Pop was a Bootneck and had not taken kindly to his son turning up on the family doorstep with his tail between his legs saying he'd wrapped. That bloke went on to join the SBS and then later took his Commision and ended up as a Major RM.
Us blokes who had no qualms about carrying on left them to themselves and went over to the NAAFI to get away from the usless load of PRONGS. After that the guys who were left really gelled into a Troop and the old saying Help your Oppo really came to the forefront of our thinking. Jerry Lee our Troop Sgt said to us on our last day of training that he would be proud to lead us into battle as our mindset was firmly MARINE.
Don't get me wrong I have all time in the world for blokes who get a med discharge as it's not their head thats wrapped but their body.
Whats the point of coming on a website like this just to tell people how close you got to the Coverted Green Lid? Anyone can be a failure.
It don't matter a jot when you wrapped. Be it week 1 or week 31. The fact is that you wrapped. Thats it Endex.
I can always remember at week 12 all the guys who were not sure sat in this one grot talking about wrapping as at that stage you could buy yourself out for twenty five quid. Most were led by the stronger willed people into wrapping. One bloke in fact left on the friday and was back on the monday. His Pop was a Bootneck and had not taken kindly to his son turning up on the family doorstep with his tail between his legs saying he'd wrapped. That bloke went on to join the SBS and then later took his Commision and ended up as a Major RM.
Us blokes who had no qualms about carrying on left them to themselves and went over to the NAAFI to get away from the usless load of PRONGS. After that the guys who were left really gelled into a Troop and the old saying Help your Oppo really came to the forefront of our thinking. Jerry Lee our Troop Sgt said to us on our last day of training that he would be proud to lead us into battle as our mindset was firmly MARINE.
Don't get me wrong I have all time in the world for blokes who get a med discharge as it's not their head thats wrapped but their body.
Tugg,
Firstly, i do not come here to spin dits about how i almost made it, i got no where near the end, and have never, and would never say otherwise. I am totaly honest about NOT doing so. But having wrapped and knowing others that have and have regretted it, means we share a common issue and all we are doing are sharing opinions about it. If you notice we are all saying to the lads going down now to not make the same mistakes as others have before and that wrapping will be a mistake, if that can help them in the slightest when they think about wrapping (which a hell of alot of people do consider at some stage) then i dont see where the problem is.
As for making a decision to wrap or not surely you must realise that although in many cases it's because people can,t hack it anymore there are also often good external personal reasons for why people might leave,some of them the same reasons why some leave having passed out of training.
Some people really do find that it's not for them, and that would be the case in what ever service they may have joined not just the Royal Marines.Whilst it would be ideal for people to "know" this before joining, it just isnt really feasable. I dont see the point in trying to push these people into staying if they really dont want to be there,they surely would,t be good for troop morale, i guess the problem is though, working out which ones may well be able to dig out a little more and then be glad they did. Personally i think the opt out system is worthwhile because those who make the wrong decision end up going back anyway alot of the time , and those who make the right decision to leave dont and surely its best not to have those people in the Corps?
Dwarfy
Firstly, i do not come here to spin dits about how i almost made it, i got no where near the end, and have never, and would never say otherwise. I am totaly honest about NOT doing so. But having wrapped and knowing others that have and have regretted it, means we share a common issue and all we are doing are sharing opinions about it. If you notice we are all saying to the lads going down now to not make the same mistakes as others have before and that wrapping will be a mistake, if that can help them in the slightest when they think about wrapping (which a hell of alot of people do consider at some stage) then i dont see where the problem is.
As for making a decision to wrap or not surely you must realise that although in many cases it's because people can,t hack it anymore there are also often good external personal reasons for why people might leave,some of them the same reasons why some leave having passed out of training.
Some people really do find that it's not for them, and that would be the case in what ever service they may have joined not just the Royal Marines.Whilst it would be ideal for people to "know" this before joining, it just isnt really feasable. I dont see the point in trying to push these people into staying if they really dont want to be there,they surely would,t be good for troop morale, i guess the problem is though, working out which ones may well be able to dig out a little more and then be glad they did. Personally i think the opt out system is worthwhile because those who make the wrong decision end up going back anyway alot of the time , and those who make the right decision to leave dont and surely its best not to have those people in the Corps?
Dwarfy
Ok fair enough, Tugg and Artist are you are both obviously in a much better position to comment on this than me, and i respect that. I do just think though that in some cases it is the right thing for people to leave, both for them and the corps. Artist i know you have been on a training team at CTC, were there not some guys that got into training who you thought just would never make it as a Marine, and you could tell pretty early on that they just didnt have it in them? Were there some that you really wanted to get rid of?
