How long does it take to rank up as an officer in the marines?
Only the lower grades are automatic promotion. After a certain point, it entirely depends on your performance. If you fail your FITREP as an officer, you will be cashiered instead of promoted. Rank above a certain level is harder in the Corps than in any other branch, due to the size and competition level. If you did not attend Annapolis or a comparable service academy, you will never make General. The officer ranks in the Marine Corps are not so specialized as other service branches and military police are enlisted. You can be a Marine military police officer, but you cannot be an officer in the military police. That is the realm of JAG and CID. Instead, you would find yourself as a company or batallion commander that happens to have an MP unit under your command.
In the U.K., should I join the Royal Navy or Royal Marines?
Put simply: do you want to live on and help operate a warship or do you want to be a member of an elite amphibious infantry force?The Marines are infantry. In the same way that the army would have regular soldiers, but Marines come at the role from an entirely different angle. They might have similar individual weapons, but the doctrine and esprit de corps is vastly different.If you are a Marine, you are expected to be fitter, harder and way more deadly than regular infantry. You’ll be the force whom is always in the vanguard, sent to do the hardest missions, with heaviest packs and the meanest tours of duty. The only comparable army force would be the Paras, whom like you, would regard other military units with disdain.Standards for entering the marines in terms of physical fitness and aptitude will be very high. They might even be equal to those for many special forces units. A person hoping to join the army or regular Navy will have to pass the basic fitness test O.K. A prospective marine will need to smash it and then some.Your level of training and proficiency with weapons will be way beyond regular troops. Your marches, drills, personal and unit exercises will be beyond the norms endured by army personnel. Marines can be embarked on ships for prolonged periods of time. Like sailors you might be posted around the world and visit a dozen different countries, unlike sailors you will be the ones doing PT and weights and press ups in your spare time, just for fun.You can spot a collection of marines on a typical night out in Plymouth, they are the ones with the meanest hair cuts, and every man jack of them looks harder than a coffin nail.If that sounds like you, you are already half way there, the bulk of it is your personal mindset.If, like me, you would prefer not to have a crew cut, would not be too keen on PT and would rather vaporise 200 terrorists with a tomahawk cruise missile from 500 miles away whilst sitting drinking slightly bland coffee sat a weapons control console, then you want to be joining the navy. And since you are doing that, you might as well join the ultimate slice of that organisation and be a submariner. It helps if you have a slight personal level of OCD about cleaning things as well.
Who would win in a bar fight, one Royal Marine or one U.S. Marine?
Ignore all the people saying “it wouldn't happen, as they wouldn't be that stupid”Unfortunately, they are that stupid!! I’ve seen plenty of late-night alcohol fuelled fighting involving Royal Marines, it happens loads.It also happens when Brits go abroad too. I've seen British soldiers fighting with German locals!!I like how everyone assumes soldiers are these noble, spirited, humble warriors.They’re not, I was one, we are basically all piss-heads and drink weeeeeyyyy too much alcohol, on most nights we can get away with.There is usually some kind of fight.So the question then, hard to answer, as military training wouldn't really dictate who would win a drunken brawl.It would come down to luck I think, whichever guy couldn't dodge the wild punch first, would lose.This is assuming the fighters are of equal size and weight.
Whos more trained an army ranger, marine recon,marsoc, army green beret?
MARSOC(United States Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command) are new havent been in service for long ill put a link for info my question excludes navy seals british sas or air force pararescuers royal marines etc. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Marine_Corps_Forces_Special_Operations_Command
Regarding joining royal marines from overseas (ex and serving British forces personnel)?
The asker is referring to the process by which Commonwealth citizens can join the Armed Forces, specifically the Royal Marines, if they procure a waiver signed by a current member of the Forces, vouching for their character and suitability. Unfortunately, if you have no connection to the Royal Marines at present, your application process becomes that much more difficult. Your only recourse really is to go out and meet people, become friends and expand your network of social contacts in hopes that one of them will be a current or former Marine. Of course, you could also emigrate to the UK and live there for sufficient time to allow them to run background checks on you, but the British economy is rather tough at the moment and jobs are limited, plus the residence period they require is something like 3 years. As a third alternative, you could enlist in the British Army, excel as a soldier and request to be transferred laterally into the Royal Marines at a later date. Of course this has its own costs and risks, but if you truly want to be a Commando, you will have to become accustomed to adversity.
Who would win in a fight between a marine & a SWAT officer?
You do realize that the category of "who would win/which is best style questions has been voted most ignorant and annoying? They are unrealistic and meaningless. Examples: Any "Who would win, X vs Y" questions. Ex: "Which is better, Navy Seals or British SAS?" Any X vs. Y question. Especially the completely imaginary ones that haven't done any work to set up a scenario for wargaming -"Who is better the 'Navy SEALS, Army Rangers, British SAS or Aussies SAS or Boy Scouts or __________(insert your own)'" Any question that ask, Which is the best ................... ?? And the list goes on and on...