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All Arms Commando Course
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The All Arms Commando Course is run by the Royal Marines. It lasts for 10 weeks. Members from any of the United Kingdom's Armed Forces can attend. The course is held at the Commando Training Centre (RM) Lympstone. On completion of the course a successful candidate will receive a Green Beret, and earn the right to wear the "Commando Dagger" on their uniform.
Following a 2 week period, which brings soldiers from a broad range of backgrounds up to a common standard of basic skills, the course then focuses on core military skills, including: Patrolling, Defence, Section and Troop Level Attacks, and Field Firing
The course then covers the following Commando skills: Amphibious Assault Drills, Cliff Assault Drills, Helicopter Drills, and Survival. The course concludes with a week long Final Exercise followed by a Test Week.
The following Commando Tests must be passed by the recruits: bottom field assault course;
- 30 ft rope climb with 30 pound weight and rifle,
- a full regain with 30 pound weight and rifle,
- 200 m fireman's carry - yours and a colleagues webbing of thirty pounds each and both rifles - (in 90 seconds), and
- fireman's carry around the course (in under 5 minutes),
- 9 mile speed march (90 minutes with 30 pounds of kit),
- 12 mile yomp with full bergen 30 pounds of kit and 12 pound rifle (in 4 hours),
- Tarzan assault course (13 minutes),
- endurance course (72 minutes) and the
- 30 miler over Dartmoor (to be completed in 8 hours - 7 hours for RM officers).
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