Comments by "Jammy Dodger" (@JammyDodger45) on "How the Royal Marines is aiming to welcome its first female commando" video.

  1. Victoria Pendleton ... awesome cyclist but she missed out on a handful of Gold Medals because she was as emotionally brittle as a slice of burnt toast! Hardly the inspirational role model for aspiring female RMC. Couldn't CTCRM find the phone number for Jasmine Paris, who, as far as I'm aware, is the only female athlete in the world who holds a record in a combined male/female discipline (The Spine Race). Notwithstanding the value of the intent it's clear that chasing a female RMC is a total pipe dream. in 4yrs only 10 have passed PRMC (obv pre covid) only 5 have started training, 3 didn't make it through the easy 2 week Induction, 1 made week 6 but had been excused PT since week 4 and 1 has made week 14 but has taken 18mths to get there (a couple of weeks in a Troop then into Remedial for a couple of months and repeat time and again) and yet she still can not pass the Bottom Field Tests But the issue here isn't the fact females can't get through, its that we're wasting their time promising them they can do it when they can't. They could be forging careers in another role but we're pushing them into risking long term injuries trying to attain the impossible. And, even worse than that, Recruit Training isn't anywhere near as hard as the first year on a Commando Unit! How will she cope then without the bespoke support of CTCRM? That's not equality, it's pure sexism hiding behind the pretence of equality and it does both parties a significant disservice.
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  2. Only 1/2 a dozen have started training! Of those only 1 has made it past the week 6 PT pass-in and she's not anywhere close to Commando Phase.
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  3. Well you'll have to wait. For a very long time.
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  4.  @A21-m4e  - given that you're just about to embark upon your journey into the Corps it will be hard for you to appreciate the levels you need to hit just to get through training never mind prosper on a Commando Unit. It's probably easier to say that you leave training feeling on top of the world like you know everything and can do anything and then you hit a Unit and realise that everyone knows so much more than you and is so much fitter than you that you never get to rest or cruise through. It's a slog. But your Section Corporal will take you under his wing and drive you forward. But you don't need to worry about that buddy, you've got hundreds of challenges to overcome before you get there!
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  5. I'm guessing she's not done it purely because her shoulders are too small to accommodate a "Royal Marines Band Service Commando" flash. That'll be it.
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  6. They can't. End of. Now let's spend all that research £ I've saved on a big BBQ for the families.
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  7.  @nigg2811  - so which Olympic sport do you think best replicates the rigours of Commando Training? Would that be a sport where males and females compete together? Oh hold on! Maybe it's one where the female record is greater than the male? Oops, once again. As long as the standards remain the same there will never ever be a female RMC. End of.
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  8. Dean Stott was never in The Corps so 🤷🏻‍♂️
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  9. I'm sure you can
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  10. I'm not being one but you seem to be struggling with understanding basic things 🤷🏻‍♂️
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  11.  @Katmando376  - so you can't understand something amazingly obvious, or understand how your post makes no sense (despite being directed to re-read it) yet I've got MH issues? Okkkaaay fella. Toodles.
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  12. Keep hoping, it's not going to happen any time soon. If ever. Name me one Olympic sport where the female speed/height/distance etc outdoes the male record? I can't think of any. For every 100 men who applies only 1 gets a Green Beret, so far 2 1/2 times that number of females have applied and only 1 has got past the week 6 physical pass-in and nowhere close to the week 14 phase 1 pass out. That's just the facts and facts don't care about your butt hurting over the truth.
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  13.  @tomrm6586  - I like that you're so proud of your service that you put RM in your username. The Royal Mail really is the best postal service in the world.
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  14. I think you'll find that biology is a way bigger problem.
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  15. P Coy has nothing to do with the Cherry Berry. It's the head dress of anyone who joins 16 AAB and that doesn't require passing P Coy.
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  16. Nice try 🎣
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  17. But the AACC is not the RMC.
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  18.  @hanshanson9932  - your lack of knowledge doesn't make my point 'stupid'. I've spent 24yrs in The Corps, taken 2 x Recruit Troops through CTCRM and been a Cpl Instructor on Commando Training Wing and taken an All Arms Commando Course through. I'm going to guess that you've never even set foot inside CTCRM. But I'm the stupid one 🙄. Feel free to delete your post and pretend you never embarrassed yourself if you wish.
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  19.  @hanshanson9932  - you have a very strange way of writing paragraphs on "what I'm saying" when I've said nothing of the sort. However RM recruits spend 18 weeks in the field plus 2 weeks of field firing. That is months of calorie and sleep deficit (and even you know that you need fuel and sleep for physical recovery). That is 35% longer than the entire AACC not just their field phases. Each of those exercises involves huge distances covered (a RM recruit literally covers +1000s of km over the 36 week course) far in excess of the AACC. The pass rate for RM training has been 48 - 52% over 40yrs. The AACC is around 75 - 80%, based on your huge experience of CTCRM why do you think that is? The 5 x females who've passed the AACC were all experienced individuals (1 x SNCO, 4 x officers) they'd had years to learn the ropes and build military fitness. RM recruits clearly don't have that experience. Like anyone who's never done it you assume the Commando Tests are some huge physical challenge. They aren't. A good level club athlete or high level amateur rugby player (not a prop!) could, with the appropriate introduction to the art of Speed Marching and the relevant obstacles, pass the Commando Tests. The challenge in RM training is passing them after months of relentless physical attrition and stress. But you'll know this from your vast experience of chatting to Bootnecks when you served them in the NAAFI.
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