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Ship Takeover: Commando Style ⚔️
After fast-roping from a Merlin Mk4 onto HMS Prince of Wales, Royal Marines from 42 Commando swept through the ship to locate and extract an isolated person as part of a close-quarters training serial.
Royal Navy Photographers captured the action as Commandos moved through the ship, clearing compartments and securing the ship.
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Faversham Transport Weekend, Kent, 16-17 May 2015. Bus and Truck Day, Saturday 16th. Court Street. (image C3399)
ROYAL NAVY PERSONNEL GO GREEN ON DARTMOOR
ROYAL NAVY personnel of 42 Commando Royal Marines Logistics Company took to Dartmoor recently to learn what it means to be a Royal Marines Commando.
During a wet and windy three day exercise, Royal Marines taught their Royal Navy colleagues the basics of fieldcraft and tactical movement in order to strengthen their close working relationship.
Shelter construction, section-level tactics and camouflage were all introduced to the students to improve their knowledge of the Royal Marines they work beside and to give them the essential skills required to survive in an operational environment.
Leading Writer Fiona Easton, who works in the Unit finance office, said: “It will be much easier to work alongside the Royal Marines in the field now that I have a better understanding of what they do.”
She added: “We were shown how to move while carrying weapons and how to set trip wires. That was my favourite part.”
42 Commando Royal Marines are one of three elite battalion-sized units which make up the global punch of 3 Commando Brigade.
The highly trained unit is currently employed worldwide in a range of ship protection duties for the Royal Navy, delivering specialist training teams as required around the globe and standing by to support UK operations.
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For more information contact 42 Commando PR Officer, Lt Fraser Smith RN, on 01752 727025 or 3CDOX-42CDOCMDEDUEO@mod.uk.
Photographs by LA(Phot) Joel Rouse
Ship Takeover: Commando Style ⚔️
After fast-roping from a Merlin Mk4 onto HMS Prince of Wales, Royal Marines from 42 Commando swept through the ship to locate and extract an isolated person as part of a close-quarters training serial.
Royal Navy Photographers captured the action as Commandos moved through the ship, clearing compartments and securing the ship.
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Arctic 'camo' adorned Sea King HC.4 Commando's 'WR' & 'R' performing some underslung load training at their home base of RNAS Yeovilton
24th July 2012
General John Campbell talking to Afghan National Army commandos after their training exercise demonstration at Camp Morehead, Afghanistan.
Miniature warriors from Families across 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division, assembled to face Soldiers of the 41st Engineer Battalion during the Commando brigade's second "Nerf Wars" match held inside a makeshift battlefield configured throughout the Magrath Sports Complex basketball court, April 10, 2019, at Fort Drum, New York. Foam darts littered the gym floor during the "just for fun" event as opposing forces fueled by popcorn and cotton candy engaged in a play firefight.
(U.S. Army photo by Staff Sgt. Paige Behringer)
The Commando Memorial is a Category A listed monument in Lochaber dedicated to the men of the original British Commando Forces raised during World War II. It overlooks the training areas of the Commando Training Depot established in 1942 at Achnacarry Castle and unveiled in 1952 by the Queen Mother. It was created by the sculptor Scott Sutherland who won a competition to design the memorial in 1949.
The monument consists of a cast bronze sculpture of three Commandos in characteristic dress complete with cap comforter, webbing and rifle, standing atop a stone plinth. "United we conquer" is inscribed around the top of the stone plinth, while the original plaque on the stone plinth reads: "In memory of the officers and men of the commandos who died in the Second World War 1939–1945. This country was their training ground”
A Garden of Remembrance, which was subsequently added to the site, is used by many surviving World War II Commandos as the designated final resting place for their ashes. It has also been used as a place where many families have scattered ashes and erected tributes to loved ones who belonged to contemporary Commando units and who have died in more recent conflicts such as the Falklands War or in Afghanistan and Iraq.