Bayonet fighting/Unarmed combat taught at lympstone?

[mfat_man]

'On Guard'
Then on the order 'Lunge' ......You lunge at the straw target
and the paunched rabbits guts or chicken giblets fall out all
twisted round your bayonet and your oppos see you spew up.
Lovely jubbley and 'Oh what a surprise'.
Now is this a bite or does it happen ?
You have been warned.

We never did bayonet training at Lichfield mind you that was late 80's and it might have changed back then. Had SLR's but never anything on the end of them!

[darrenrugby18]

I suppose if you stabbed someone really hard with the end of an SLR it would hurt, might even break skin owww

[mfat_man]

I suppose if you stabbed someone really hard with the end of an SLR it would hurt, might even break skin owww

LOL! I am sure I would rather take someone out from 200yrds with a bullett than 12inches with a bayonet, can't say I would have looked forward to doing that

[Spooky]

Spooky, are you in Recruit training because if you are then i would love to see you ask our PTI that sarcastic comment you made. Our PTI was a section commander in Iraq, one of the first troops onto the Al Faw peninsula and I would reckon he knows what hes talking about. Its ok Hankins 927 troop forever!!

No, I passed out of recruit training more than seven years ago - albeit not the CTCRM.

No my comment was not at all sarcastic, its a serious question for you to put to him; just probably not while your a nod

Seriously - its a valid point, bods are issued bayonets the MoD purchases at great expense for reasons other than picking corned beef hash out of your teeth. They are there (among other reasons) for when the time comes to close in and kill your enemy face to face - as has happened in Iraq.

So b*ll*cks to what that PTI says - he should know better.

I know your not in a position to question what people tell you right now - but keep an open mind and don't swallow everything whole outside of the obvious training that is. At some point in your career you will hopefully be in a position to not say such things.

he wasn't putting bayonets down, he was jsut saying that if the enemy got that close then you screwed up. there was no objection to the fact that you need it, because shit happens and shit hits the fan when you least expect it.

So what happens when you run up to them? D'oh!

Sorry matey, in the context its been delivered on here, it was a bone statement that PTI made.

[JORD123]

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

[Ste Preece]

Guys,
I've watched this thread with interest. Basically your bayonet is the last resort when you've got no ammo left.

When a firefight starts the momentum begins and it goes on until you are either dead or you come out the other side.

If you run out of rounds you would fix bayonets and tear and rip away at anything that got in your path until it was finished.

Thats it really.

Steve

[mfat_man]

Guys,
I've watched this thread with interest. Basically your bayonet is the last resort when you've got no ammo left.

When a firefight starts the momentum begins and it goes on until you are either dead or you come out the other side.

If you run out of rounds you would fix bayonets and tear and rip away at anything that got in your path until it was finished.

Thats it really.

Steve

Sensible point mate

I'd be seriously worried if there was someone in my platoon banging on about bayonet training and how much he'd like to slice someone to pieces.

But I'd be even happier he was on my side....

[Spooky]

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

Oh please... you know naff all about me to make that statement, least of all a threat by proxy. Grow up.

So I'm jealous of you and thats why I'm putting your NCO's down? Wrong -I'm not putting your NCO down - I'm rebuking ANY bone statement but it just so happens that most of the bone stuff we're having put to us is coming from the nods clearly wondering on the validity of the statement they've heard.

Obviously someone thought it needed a little thought or it would not have been posted in the first place would it? Not only that most people are more or less echoing the sentiment albeit in a more tactful manner.

For what its worth I've heard all sorts of crap from all sorts of NCO's, SNCO's, WO's and officers and would you beleive some of them I have corrected? Probably not - but then Ive not been a recruit for some time now.

Just clarify for me though: were exactly did I put anyone down?

Now take an ego check and get some more pressups out, 'potential' marine.

[Hankins]

They say you meet all sorts dicks going through life, i guess spooky is just one of many along that road

[Frank S.]

They say you meet all sorts dicks going through life, i guess spooky is just one of many along that road

I got the emoticon, but I'm a tad thick today. Please confirm you said that in jest.

[Spooky]

They say you meet all sorts dicks going through life, i guess spooky is just one of many along that road

Personally, Id say that of people who come onto internet forums, don't like something they've heard and start gobbing off for it and making assertions about people they know nothing of.

[mfat_man]

They say you meet all sorts dicks going through life, i guess spooky is just one of many along that road

Personally, Id say that of people who come onto internet forums, don't like something they've heard and start gobbing off for it and making assertions about people they know nothing of.

Spooky

1

The lads doing RM are only repeating what they have said on their thread, rightly or wrongly what they have been told. Or think they have been told.

2... Cast your mind back to your "basic". Don't tell me you believed 99.9% of what the RSM told you, let alone the Coporals leading your section.

It is ony when you have been around for a while you can make your own mind up!

[Spooky]

They say you meet all sorts dicks going through life, i guess spooky is just one of many along that road

Personally, Id say that of people who come onto internet forums, don't like something they've heard and start gobbing off for it and making assertions about people they know nothing of.

Spooky

1

The lads doing RM are only repeating what they have said on their thread, rightly or wrongly what they have been told. Or think they have been told.

2... Cast your mind back to your "basic". Don't tell me you believed 99.9% of what the RSM told you, let alone the Coporals leading your section.

It is ony when you have been around for a while you can make your own mind up!

1) Yeah I know - Though we all knows what happens when people who know different read it.

2) Sure, some of it you've no choice but to take as it is because thats what you know at the time. Then you go and ask people [like on MFAT] and they tell you otherwise [like me and a few others have these guys].

What you don't do is then start gobbing off...

Take on what your saying - but look at who's leaping on who here and saying the silly things. Ok I need to work on my tact a bit - but that does not warrant the kind of responce Jord feels is appropriate, mature and unidiotic...

Its just his ego. Brutally funny given he's yet to prove himself worthy of a dagger.

[Chas]

I found Jord123's posted attack on Spooky to be crass and immature.
On the forum we are all equal to express our opinions in a democratic
manner. The fact that I was once an officer is of no consequence.
However one of the endearing facts about Royal is their general modesty
in dealing with the Army. We all complement each other and finally if
anyone objects to what I say pleas do not feel inhibited to take a pop at me.

[Ste Preece]

Guys,
I've watched this thread with interest. Basically your bayonet is the last resort when you've got no ammo left.

When a firefight starts the momentum begins and it goes on until you are either dead or you come out the other side.

If you run out of rounds you would fix bayonets and tear and rip away at anything that got in your path until it was finished.

Thats it really.

Steve

Sensible point mate

I'd be seriously worried if there was someone in my platoon banging on about bayonet training and how much he'd like to slice someone to pieces.

But I'd be even happier he was on my side....

I'm not referring to training. I'm referring to reality in a CQB situation. The reason you have a bayonet is so that you have the option of using it.

Also: I concur with Chas. Lets debate this sensibly and not single out people who have taken a different route in the military or in civvie life. At the end of the day, after you join the forces, we are all brothers in arms when it comes to fighting a conflict together.

Note: We then come into unit pride, but that's another story!!

Best Regards

Steve