Duration
60 weeks
Frequency
1 course per year
Location
Commando Training Centre Royal Marines
Ields
5.5
Age
Minimum age 18
Aims
To develop in a Young Officer the qualities necessary to hold commissioned rank and to train them to command close combat troops in an operational unit.
Course details
- Basic military training including weapon handling, field craft, land navigationand drill
- Military physical training to Commando standards
- Section and troop level tactics in conventional warfare, operations other than war and under nuclear, biological and chemical conditions
- Command, leadership and management
- Military skills including signals, first aid and field engineering
- Amphibious and helicopter operations
- An introduction to the Royal Navy
- Strategic Studies
Vacancies depend on Royal Marine training requirements, but will not exceed 6 per course.
Requirements
- Royal Marines Young Officers are commissioned as second lieutenants
- for the course and it is requested that International students be similarly commissioned
- Be not more than 25 years old on joining the course
- Educational standard equivalent to UK entry of minimum 5 GCSEs including English language and mathematics
- Attend and pass a Potential Officers’ Course held at CTCRM which will test against entry criteria standards
Exams and Qualifications Gained
- Map reading exam
- Signals exam
- Military Law exam
- Operations other than war exam
- Nuclear, Biological and Chemical Defence exam
- Strategic studies exam
- Part 1, Part 2 and end of course final exams
- The Commando tests
- Infantry range supervisor’s qualification
- Helicopter Underwater Escape Training
- One-day Sea Survival Course
- Information Technology Level 2
- Defence Instructional Technique