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Originally Posted by TheDoc
I'm a Marine..
Royal Marines train much harder, they also train for fighting conditions like Afgan, and other various conditions found all over the world. (they are also all officers, ie college educated, I think)
Marines, train for amphibious fights, we like water not sand and rocks. The general Marine, even the grunt, is far below Royal Marine in combat training. It's like looking at our Army vs. our Marines, a huge ass difference.
But once you move into the Marine special forces, like SRT, you get groups just as small, just as trained, and better at the 'specialty' they are trained in than the Royal Marines.
But to be fair, the Royal Marines ARE a special forces combat team. I'm pretty sure you don't start as a Royal Marine, you are selected to become one.
Our SRT, Seals, ect teams totally rock the Royal Marines, in the specialized fields that they are trained in. That's the difference between our forces, and them.
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Well your right on a few points but wrong on the details what no one here has mentioned is the UK Marines full name is Royal Marine Commandos the difference between the US and the UK is therefore quite drastic,as with everything the US Army does is generally done a much larger scale than the UK.
The UK marines are not special forces however and you can go straight into the marines I've met with quite a few of them and had a few late night drinking sessions even went for a fly with them in the Sea-king commando (old rattling stinky tin can if you want to know)fantastic pilots flying below the cliff of dover is alot of fun.
So UK Marines everytime (PS this is where we get the recruits for the SAS and the SBS)