Royal Marines Lands End Long Jump ..Behind The Lines

[40bravoandy]

hideous old school bootnecks . great stuff

[TheGlowingKnight]

There is a docu about this. These guys are royal marines that are training to be mountain leaders which specialize in mountain/arctic warfare, sniping, recon, and survival.

[GREATBRITISHGAMER]

I'm joining next year after i finish my exams, three cheers for me :D

[mcreature]

The episodes are on BBC I player

[WolvoExPunk1]

I remember this was repeated in 1985. My lass was drooling over the guys doing PT naked in the snow. The final exercise had a brawl between the trainees and the instructors. One big Dutch Marine got twatted with a rifle butt. These are to the Royal Marines what the Pathfinders are to the Paras. 

[thisguyssosick]

@WolvoExPunk1

do you know the name of the full documentory or any info on where to watch it all? would love to see it.

[WolvoExPunk1]

@WolvoExPunk1 It was called Behind The Lines. It was a series of about 5 parts. Good luck in finding it, and plz giz a shout cos I'd like to see it again myself. One one episode, their sergeant major climbed down a cliff at night with no rope, harness, headtorch or anything other than the clothes he was stood in. This is the Mountain Leader Class 2 course. There is also a ML1 course, part of which is to instruct the ML2 course.

[ryko26]

Excellent documentary but the commentator's "ho ho ho" smirky style REALLY STARTS TO GRATE

[sfub1]

Do I spy a young Russ Craig, later RSM of 45 during Op Jacana and owner of THE best 'tache in NATO?

[Jockushorrendus]

@sfub1

Russ was never "young"--he always looked like that!

[Jockushorrendus]

Respond to this video... 

All now on I Player

[JAYHFROMBURY11]

Marines are quality jus shame they're attached to the Navy

[freeekinmyers]

@JAYHFROMBURY11

why is that a shame? its brilliant! it shows how different they are, and you can become commando trained in the army, but its just not the same

[jojo1970essex]

"THATS MY DADDY" Blimey thats like looking at Sam, so young you were there!!! Love from your daughter. 

[jojo1970essex]

Blimey thats like looking at Sam, so young you were there!!! Love from your daughter.

[dave2806]

as life long "senior service" i salute you all .

[Miles12345671]

i bet that hurts your knees lol

[shiner0302]

I'm Bill Wright, former Royal Marine and the and the instructor in the film clip. The clip is taken from a BBC series called "Behind the LInes" which was made in 1982/83 and Produced by Michael Begg. The voice over is Ian Wooldridge. The Lands End Long Jump is most certainly not part of the recruit training syllabus and never has been. No-one to my certain knowledge has ever been killed or seriously injured making the jump.

[MUFCFrankie]

@shiner0302 Im in the application process.

That jump you did with no harness looked insane.

[thebones131]

how come they stoped it, health and safety??

[Yushinoka]

this man's testicles have their own time zone

[prebioticc]

Do marines today still have to do this training? the leap?

[Rilox]

wow thats impressive, would want to do that too :O

[reggiecry]

This is the Mountain Leaders course, Royal Marines. They instruct both the SAS and SBS in mountain warfare. Hard hard bastards. The amount of miles they cover over their training pisses on the actual basic training for SF... In a nutshell if these lads wanted to join either of the other branches, they would pass. no doubt

[TheDrummerboi94]

loving the issued moustaches :P

[Isthisthelongestname]

Awsome, but how did the instructor without a harness get back up?

Thanks.

[joshallan17]

@Isthisthelongestname jumpedl ike a badass

[NotByStrengthByGuile]

@Isthisthelongestname He is (or was, having retired on a back injury) a Royal Marine Mountain Leader, i'll give you 3 guesses how he got back up ;-)

[miniman631]

@NotByStrengthByGuile backwards summer sault

[partyhat3]

Just watching this makes me sweat - amazing!

[partyhat3]

I remember this...is there any more? Thanks for posting!

[dezy6987]

complete warriors man .best of the best survive .

[43ozzy]

how can i get all of this for exRoyal Marine

[emerson88ify]

This isn't part of Royal Marines training, pretty sure it's the ML branch.

[MattyLeeMate]

do they still have to do thiss ?

[arsenalfan4life1993]

@MattyLeeMate Yes they do, but they do not do it at that location anymore due to a number of deaths over the years. They do it at a different location which has the same gap width but a larger drop.

[MattyLeeMate]

@arsenalfan4life1993 are you still like harressed in or is it still as dangerous as this video ?

[arsenalfan4life1993]

@MattyLeeMate Well, when i did it back in august 2009 we had a small harness but it wasn't much use if we fell off as we would just get bashed against the rock face.

[MattyLeeMate]

@arsenalfan4life1993 fuckkk :L i wanted to join but that just has im going to die written all over it lol

[arsenalfan4life1993]

@MattyLeeMate Yes it is very dangerous, there's always some who don't do it and they just get deemed unsuitable for the job and told to go home. Some take too long and some just simply don't have the confidence, so if you're not a confident person then don't even consider the RMCs

[MattyLeeMate]

@arsenalfan4life1993 what else do you do ? cos this is the first time i have heard of this jump. i'm going to ask when i go careers office about it haa

[arsenalfan4life1993]

@MattyLeeMate well they call this "the leap of faith", along with this there is the tarzan assault course which has to be completed in under 13 minutes, the 9 mile march and the 30 miler at the end along with all your various weapons and survival training. Yea, go to the careers office, I'm sure they will know more than me!

[MattyLeeMate]

@arsenalfan4life1993 i dont see anything about this leap of faith anywhere on internet

[byGuile]

@MattyLeeMate That's because it's called the 'Lands End long jump", arsenalfan4life1993 is talking shit, he's never done this and doesn't know what he's talking about.

[byGuile]

@arsenalfan4life1993 So you did this in August 2009 but you reckon the careers office will know more about it than you do, lying wanker.

[sepiasilence]

@MattyLeeMate right, so why even think about joining the marines if a jump puts you off, they get shot at..alot, they tend to be sent to the worst places and are highly likely to suffer loses, the whole job has im going to die written all over it

[wiganerrmc]

@arsenalfan4life1993 dont chat shit you did this in 2009 because thay dont do this no more iv been a RMC for 5 years

[rossyd1]

@arsenalfan4life1993 What troop where you in?

[byGuile]

@arsenalfan4life1993 What utter shite, the job is dangerous you twat, that's the whole point of the training. Stop pretending you're a Royal and get back to school (after all you're only 17 aren't you).

[BritishPatriot3]

@byGuile Im 16 and start rt in a few days

[macky111222]

@BritishPatriot3 give it your all. die trying. a life in the royal marines is the best decision of your life.

[BritishPatriot3]

@macky111222 Cheers mate

[weaves6985]

Anyone got the rest of this brilliant series ?

[JohnSmithTheSecond]

@weaves6985 did you ever find the series mate?

[grim0033]

As much as some people pay out these guys, you gotta admit that doing that requires a serioulsy big pair of balls.

When I say paying out, I mean international/Interunit rivalry i.e faggot yanks talking up thier faggot marine corps.

[HLecterPHD]

00:40 freddie mercury

[stackmiestergeneral]

this ML course is ment to be fucking nails!

[WolvoExPunk]

I remember this series back in the 80s.  An Australian SAS guy on the course bottled out of this jump and was RTU'd. It was a great series to watch.

[ThomasGardiner]

mustache and muscle! lol

[rheathhall]

what a fucking nutta , joined the marines in in troop 109 start in march cant fucking wait .. much respect to all the ML and the rest of the lads in the RM

[RoKsTa9]

JOINING THESE WOOOOOOOP

[thisguyssosick]

the marines are fuckin nails

[vadid666]

thats y im hoping to join them

[danwormald]

@thisguyssosick PARA PISS ALL OVER MARINES !

[thisguyssosick]

@danwormald

any statistics for this statement? or a keyboard warriors point of veiw?

[danwormald]

@thisguyssosick Am X Para, everyone knows the Paras is the hardest coarse to pass by sas, even a woman has passed the Royal Marines Comando coarse, no woman has ever passed P Company. LOL !!

[thisguyssosick]

@danwormald

i cant even be assed to argue your comments are shit and your probably about 13,

[danwormald]

@thisguyssosick im 33 and ive served in afg n irq. not slagging off the royal marines but its true a woman has hassed the commando coarse, woman have tryed p.company but cannot complete, peace brother !

[thehammer1675]

@danwormald no lady has ever completed the royal marine course not even professional athletes failed at it :)

[jammy764]

@danwormald Was it the same woman to attempt the Paras course though?

[danwormald]

@jammy764 yes same woman, she sprained her leg, she hasnt tryed it again since tho, she probly thought no way im gona try that again, i will stick to the marines commando coarse instead lol

[jammy764]

@danwormald Fair enough, well i can't comment because I don't know anything about it. We could argue all day about who's better, but lets face it, they're both elite and both make me proud to be British.

[danwormald]

@jammy764 Being x Forces (3 Para) i respect Royal marines commandos big time , just saying that P.Company is NAILS compared to the Commando coarse. lots of blood, sweat and tears.

[danwormald]

Respond to this video... NO HARNESS, try that today with HEALTH AND SAFETY LOL !!!

[facefilms87]

this is how you seperate the men from the worms!

[MarineAqua45]

Sgt Wright is an incredibly brave man.one of many qualities that make real men,men.This is recommended highly,to reform misfits.

[neverunprepared]

back in the '40s and 50's commando's trained with live ammunition all the time and this jump was part of commando training. now its on the ML course and harnesses must be used, blanks for exercises unless specified...thats all the health and safety bollocks form brussels...vote UKIP! haha

[B20FlyingPig]

The EU doesn't do anything with th army or the navy.

[LecceDiPane]

@neverunprepared it's got nothing to do with the eu m8.

[macky111222]

that drill instructor is a spartan! hardcore and awe inspiring

[cbecks205]

well your wrong my friend becuase they used to use south stack as the base jump which is here in wales i live 10minutes away and they have stoped this

[cbecks205]

the royal marines have put an end to this, alot of the training is now shut down due to recruits being injured and dying

[RogueRM]

No, the training and standards are maintained. The proof is the performance of 3 Cdo Bde in Afghanisttan recently.

[imnotover18haha]

No, they aren't. watch the commando documentary on ITV4 whenever it starts again, even the staff at lympstone admit it. They're still insanely elite as any SF must be but there's too many do-gooders in the world nowdays which means excersises like this are banned for health and saftey. Ridiculous.

[jezzat1]

I think the documentary youre referring to is about recruit training, this one is the mountain leaders course. So they might still do it.

[arrrival]

@imnotover18haha Insanely elite, but not to SF level. UKSF training for example is just ridiculous, especially the evade and capture scenario.

[tonicrule]

I hope they're still doing this because I'm going to be joining the Royal Marine Commandos in a year and it would be a shame if they've started to dumn the training down. I wouldn't feel like a commando if I didn't have the opportunity to do stuff like this.

[RogueRM]

The Lands End Long Jump is not on the recruit training curriculum (although there are many just as ballsy things to overcome).

This was a 'bottle tester' on the ML2 course during the 'Cornwall phase.

[alcass25]

To the best of my knowledge it still happens, was a bootneck but never an ML .

[xxxKINGFROGxxx]

how many recruits have been killed doing this?

[RogueRM]

None

[khalsasikh]

@RogueRM Do you know how far across the jump is? How much of a drop is it as well?

[nyah1uk]

wtf!! Thats nuts

[old45marine]

Oh the memories done that in 1973 .Its a breeze once you have done it, ,but first time grab you balls and go