Royal Marines Commandos March - Sarie Marais

[Fallenkezef]

Royal Marine Commando training is 32 weeks from basic to pass out. However only a few do 32 weeks, allot get "back trooped" for failing parts of the course and have to repeat so end up doing a smuch as 40 weeks till they reach required standard. The pass rate is around 30%, these guys are not reulars, they are closer to special forces, they are the shocktroops of the British military.

[MarkramUK]

0:17 For the love of God, don't piss that guy off.

[nv7103]

just read tinmiss's comment 9 months past :) adding 2 likes - one obvious and one for the comment.

[blueray1969]

I'd surrender to all of them at 0:24

[liloa12]

THEY ARE SO YUMMY!!!

[jollyjohnbull]

Who are the two plonkers who dont like this?

[clydewell]

@jollyjohnbull Republicans, i bet.

[InjuringThunder]

@jollyjohnbull I'm betting it was a mis click

[RGH235]

XDDDDDDDD Sarie Marais..... a Boers song adopted as official march by an english regiment. XDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD

[crackpot148]

@RGH235 A BRITISH regiment.

[cypruskev]

@crackpot148 when did we be come part of the Army ????????????

[squizzoo]

Is this Youtube video or youtube photos?

CRAP.

[admiralscott24]

this is an afrikaans song.

[zacharymullin]

@admiralscott24

-the first nation to field commandos, fitting.

[zacharymullin]

@admiralscott24

be it may against us but hey.

[unclemikedoyle]

Semper Fidelis, my cousins!

M. J. Doyle

fmr Sgt., USMC

[THEMATTBUXTON]

@unclemikedoyle From a future Sapper and citizen of the UK, Thank you Sargent.

[Swanbow]

So proud that a song from my home country represents such a brilliant military force!

[nvpau]

This is crazy. I learnt this song at school when I was 10 or so... in Barcelona and with catalan lyrics XDDDDD I still remember it... Oh Sari Mares amor meu tan llunyà, et sento en el cor ben viva. L'amor és més fort que la vida i que la mort, i es porta per sempre en el cor. Jo vull tornar a veure mon vell Transvaal, flor de ma jovenessa, on el vent perfumat dins el fullatge gemat, tot hora d'amor ens parla, on el vent perfumat dins el fullatge gemat, ens parla tot hora d'amor.

[Lokiomin]

Doesn't this tune sound a lot like "I'm a lumberjack and I'm ok?" by Monty Python?

[VCRAGE]

PASSING OUT <3... I almost cried in front of everyone during the march..

[BillJonesuk]

As others have said our regimental march is Life on the Ocean waves.

Per Mare Per Terram

Bill 73tp 1974

[andyrmbull]

marched of ctcrm pass out in 1978 to this march we adopeted it as the commando march. the regt march is life on so please leave coeprs history to us

please. we are the ones getting shot blown up etc. so if you downt serve , mind your own. we know our corps history .better than civviess so please mind yourown and enjoy the best military band in the world

god bless

Royal

[crackpot148]

@andyrmbull Plenty of us served before you, son.

Keep up the good work.

[Horsemarine100]

The Royal Marine Commandos adopted this as their march past becauise of its association with the Boer commandos, from whom they take their name. Christiaan de Wet et al must be spinning in their graves!

[M1ckyCFC]

faggits

[bellamartha1]

Wat sou die boere van destyds s^e as kon hoor hoe lekker die kakies "sarie marais" speel! My oupa sal verseker in sy graf omdraai.

[crackpot148]

@bellamartha1 Let's hope so!

[MrCagivaman]

I doubt whether The RM adopted this as it was the Boer rallying song from South Africa and the Marines saw action against them ????

[210482fmj]

@Criticallacitirc well you can think what you want at the end of the day but you have to admit its getting to the point where you really don't know what to believe anymore and its difficult trusting anybody. How can you make sense out of this craziness

[210482fmj]

@Criticallacitirc I see a lifetime of obedience has brainwashed you. You beleive anything the media tell you. Everythign you are saying is not likely to even happen 90 percent of the time. These troops are used as profit making tools for the government and arms industry. Why don't you join them then we'll be rid of you also

[210482fmj]

@Criticallacitirc Who told you? The media

[iamiSniipezxX]

@210482fmj who is there to fight on the street you total fucking idiots. they are fighting the bigger picture you twat

[210482fmj]

@Criticallacitirc I don't see them defending people on the streets.

[210482fmj]

there not very nice people. If they agree to kill then that is not a good person deep down

[BenAliGtor]

I was in OCS/MCDEC Quantico in 1982. Our director of PT was a Royal Marine color sergeant. A ball busting SOB, as much of a stand up individual as any of the USMC staff NCOs who trained us, and a man I would definately want alongside me in any firefight. Nothing but respect- and a lot of it- for the Royal Marines from yours truly.

[FrankWernPennant]

The irony of this is that in many European countries this tune is the hallmark of anti-British sentiment. It is the lament of a South-African, presumably Boer, man who has had to leave his beloved wife Sarie.

[t1t296]

@USMarineRifleman0311, how about you grow up and start showing a bit more respect towards your allies, know who your friends are because we all know the enemy

[adventussaxonum]

@Ysagormorful - it's not irony, it's respect for a wily foe! That's why Churchill chose the name commandos for his "hit and run" special forces in WW2. Don't forget HE was in South Africa during the Boer war.

and BTW these boys aren't "army" Don't recall the navy getting bloodied by the Boers! Ha ha

[adventussaxonum]

Typ- "Drysdale"

A BIT OF RESPECT NEEDED FOR BOTH CORPS, I THINK !

[MrHowitz]

its quite ironic that this is the marching tune for the royal marines, considering that this was the marching tune for the boers back in the boer war. and they sure killed alot of englishmen.

[Johnzoil]

Watch out Khaki, there's a Boer in the bush.

[usmc0109]

greetings from USA, Thank god you're home safe, God bless you guys, thanks for the help over there.

United States Marine Corp

Hoorah!

[tijayzz]

French Foreign  Légion...

[liverpoolparkour08]

this is not the regimental march of the royal marines. the regimental march of the royal marines is a life on the ocean wave. this is Sarie Marais 'The march past of the R.M Commando's'

[candw87]

@liverpoolparkour08  YOU ARE CORRECT

[candw87]

@liverpoolparkour08 YOU ARE CORRECT THE GREEN BERETS

[Ubaldo421]

@liverpoolparkour08 Exsattely.Well done.

[jayc342009]

@Ubaldo421 Exactly*

[tinmiss]

i will surrender IMMEDIATELY if i am faced with the man at 0:18, that is a face only a mother could love

[raginroadrunner]

@tinmiss..ya sure as hell got that right...this guy is motivated..I'll keep my comments about the Qween to myself also..

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@tinmiss

thats weird because royal marines surrendered to the argentines without putting up a fight, and then once again to the iranians

i think he would surrender to you

[greendaytheoffspring]

@USMarineRifleman0311 that's bull-shit because the royal marines have never lost a fight. get your facts right

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@greendaytheoffspring

royal marines never lost? how about the 7 ships they let fall into the hands of the rebel navy during the US revolution or the other 15 during the war of 1812, as well as loosing the war's main naval engagements at Erie and Plattsburg?

Ft McHenry...New Orleans? Proplatvosk? Tobruk, Dieppe, Zeebrugge raids...? ever heard of them

every one of them royal marine defeats in the annals of amphibious warfare.

[devv1989]

@USMarineRifleman0311 to my knowledge, it was a defence force of around 100 men, facing thousands of argentines with jets and tanks.. being the commander of that unit, i wouldn't waste the life of a single man for and island full of sheep, and they didn't.. they probably knew britain would come back in force at a later date, which they did. Of course, if it was you defending that island, you would've fought till the end wouldn't you? and all of you would die? and it would be 'glorious' right?

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@devv1989

thats weird because thats exactly what the USM battalion on Wake Island did in 1941, they killed 8 waves of japs and held back the jap navy all on their own.

Or the Marines of Hill 488 in Vietnam...9 US Marines vs an entire gook battalion.

or that time the 1st Marine Division got surrounded by 10 communist divisions at Chosin

Its called Death before Dishonor.

[devv1989]

@USMarineRifleman0311

wake island is how big? the size of an average village?

falklands are enormous.. how can 100 man know where the enemy are coming from? they can't.

they were spread ridiculously thin, any real strategist would know it was a lost cause, once the argentines had their tanks on the ground, it was over.

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@devv1989

A battalion of US Marines stopped the advance of the Japanese navy on one island and youre talking about the Argentinians for fucks sake. They havent had combat experience in centuries.

Its been over a year since the USMs took over Sangin as well, same story there. Our strategy prevailed.

[devv1989]

wtf has combat experience centuries ago got to do with a present day army?

tanks vs light infantry? clue up?

also your glorious marines who took over in sangin had the highest casualty rate of any US battalion in afghanistan.. within 5 months of taking over, gj there.

your strategy prevailed because you made peace with a northern helmand tribe, which essentially slowed down resistance in that area.. and i'd imagine the amount of ANA soldiers that were sent to the meat grinder wasn't recorded?

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@devv1989

The USMs that took Sangin were all light non mechanized infantry, 3/5, 3/7 and 2/9 battalions all worked there at one time or another (never at one time) loosing 30 KIA and 80 wounded fixing the mistakes in strategy the RMCs made over the previous where they lost around 105 KIA (+5x that amount wounded)

It worked, instead of hiding behind little FOBs, USMs actually went out on long range patrols and pushed the enemy onto the offensive, that wasnt the case with RMs

[iamiSniipezxX]

@USMarineRifleman0311 you truly are a fucking idiot. go watch royal marines mission afganistand then try and chat shit, look at my other comment aswell. and if you are trying to say that we lost 105 in sangin and 5x that wounded then you need to get your facts straight. go look at the personnel that have been killed then come back.also the usmc are about 3 or 4 times bigger and have way more deaths then british forces (RIP to both)

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@devv1989

Helmand will go down in history as a British stalemate and a USM victory, just like Bellau Wood 1918.

Nobody has criticized the conduct of the US Marines in their work, except being to agressive which we cant help. We're veterans of fucking Al Anbar, Fallujah, Tarawa, Chosin reservoir, Khe Sahn, Hue City, Iwo Jima, Guadalcanal not the fucking Falklands and Suez Canal police actions

you never send boys that surrendered to the argies to do what elite heavy infantry has to do.

[devv1989]

@USMarineRifleman0311

you send elite heavy infantry to defend a couple of middle-of-nowhere islands with more sheep than humans?

the main british force that took back the falklands kicked the argies out in no time, name the last country USA went to war with that had decent jets + a navy, not fucking old migs flown by amateur iraqi pilots,

as usual you're just going into a third world country, kicking some arse and acting all tough about it. doesn't always work tho does it? vietnam? somalia?

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@devv1989

Let me clear up that I dont care about the strategy of my country, the us army is a gaggle fuck. My argument was in the defence of a fighting force, not the armed forces in general.

Marines, rangers, grenadiers, we win battles not wars.

Our units are small so we only see a portion of the big picture. I think its very useless to brag about the overall performance of a nation when you come from an elite (fire brigade type unit) You can only make a difference as a Marine not win wars

[5h3llf15h]

@USMarineRifleman0311 And those Viet-Cong citizen soldiers handed your asses on a platter, please the US Marines are very over rated, like a empty can they make alot of noise, but don't do much.

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@5h3llf15h

We dont do much? We took Fallujah twice, we pacified Al Anbar and the NW Iraq(the sunny death triangle) in less than 4yrs and now we've turned our attention to Helmand.

In Fallujah we killed 1,200 insurgents while loosing 49 KIA.

All the while the british could only give up basrah and create a quagmire in helmand. We deserve every rating we get. From Chosin to Khe Sahn to Fallujah.

[5h3llf15h]

@USMarineRifleman0311 You took Fallujah twice!!! That is one time too many. And what is with the body count haven't you guy learned from Vietnam? that you guys killed 2.5 time more of the Vietnam population in that war, if that happen why is there people in Vietnam, they should all be dead. Fallujah was probley 55 insurgents to your 49KIA, Can a US Marine even count?? Haha just joking around no hard feelings.

[USMarineRifleman0311]

@5h3llf15h

people count for us...since we can only count to 28...the number of rounds that go into a magazine and 6 the number of magazines we carry.

1,200 KIA + another 1,500 POWs.

Body counts tell the rate at which they are fighting back and at which you are fighting. Stuff that needs to be fixed.

no hard feelings here

[adventussaxonum]

@USMarineRifleman0311 - remember 41 independent cdo RM helped you boys get out at Chosin- they were awarded a Presidential Unit Citation (same as the 1st Marine Div) You've heard of Force Dysdale?

[iamiSniipezxX]

@adventussaxonum well that shut him up (y)

[iamiSniipezxX]

@USMarineRifleman0311 you are really pissing me off, its either you or somebody with the same name but different number. you call your self usmcrifleman but your probably just some fat kid thinking he is. the us marines hate cunts like you and respect the royal marines and have mentioned how they are among the best in the world so fuck off you keyboard warrior

[sh4rpeXtreme]

@tinmiss thats a warface!

[Kay82Schmidt]

@tinmiss yes, a terrifying sight!

[Ali8730]

Got my PRMC 17th-20th May...COME ONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!!!!!!!



[TheSouless1992]

@Ali8730 Got mine then aswell :)

[robertbatty]

joe batty?

[luchocolombia5]

todos estos himnos. estan impresionantes,, pero alguien me puede decir ,como se llama , el himno, que cantan ,mientras marchan las hormigas. en la pelicula hormiguitaz. .es el que estoy buscando.,,

[mallorcatim]

@luchocolombia5 The Antz go marching to war?

[luchocolombia5]

@mallorcatim --si como se llama , la cancion militar. que usan las antz.mientras marchan a. la guerra..???

[mallorcatim]

@luchocolombia5 Lo siento mi amigo, mi español no es muy buena, creo que la canción se llama "Cuando Johnny viene marchando a casa". (When Johnny comes marching home) pero en la película Antz se llama "Las hormigas van marchando a la guerra" (The antz go marching to war) Espero que esto ayude

[luchocolombia5]

@mallorcatim esa -era la cancion. muchas gracias,,,,,

amigo, saludes desde colombia....

[luchocolombia5]

@luchocolombia5 -

te invito a conocer colombia amigo..y gracias por el dato.

[funpeddler]

Royal Marines...to your duties! This song is played when they pass out right?

[LJOUWERD]

Oh bring me back to the old tTransvaal where the ......

[odst000a]

love this tune so much i love playing it in the sea cadet band its the best :)

[Wabeberu]

No it's called, "Sarie Marais"

[StephanusTacitus]

I thought this tune was "The Old Transvaal"!