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How far can 47 Cdo talk at sea?

Shorts news email today with some recent training lads have been doing.  47 Commando and a Seamen Specialist (wahay!!!) during boat training in the Caribbean Sea.  17 August 2026: In...

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The journey

Port Stanley. June 1982. He has stopped because there is nowhere left to walk. Image: IWM (FKD 157) An exhausted Royal Marine of 45 Commando sits in the mud at...

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it's carnage

Morning campers.  The above is a photo from this reel I shared on the socials showing some Bootneck training from around 1961.  Roller haulage at it's finest.  When the advance party reaches...

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Sergeant Barry “Baz” Weston, RM

30 August 2011. Near Sukmanda, Nahr-e Saraj, Helmand. K Company, 42 Commando.  40 years old. Baz was born in Reading on 27 February 1971. He joined the Corps on 30...

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stolen pork

Right, I've just read that apparently the Royal Marines and the Parachute Regiment are set to trial a new foot-launched military paraglider in the coming months. My first thoughts head...

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