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 navigation and drill
- Military physical training to Commando standards
- Section and troop level tactics in conventional warfare, operations other than war and Commando operations
- Command, leadership and management
- Military skills including signals and first aid
- Amphibious and helicopter operations
- An introduction to the wider Royal Navy
- Strategic Studies
Requirements
- Royal Marines Young Officers are commissioned as second lieutenants for the course, and it is requested that international students be similarly commissioned
- 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 an Officer Selection Course held at CTCRM which will test against entry criteria standards
Exams and Qualifications Gained
- Map reading exam
- Signals exam
- Periodic fitness assessments
- NATO sequence of orders assessment
- Command and leadership assessment
- Nuclear, Biological and Chemical exam
- Strategic studies essay and seminars
- Termly and end of course exams
- The Commando Tests
- Range qualifications
- Helicopter Underwater Escape Training
- Embarked Forces Sea Survival Course
- Battle swimming assessment
- Defence Instructional Technique
REMARKS
Vacancies depend on Royal Marine training requirements, but will not exceed 6 per course.