Rabid Cougar said:
Royal Marines are not comparable to U.S. Marines. They are Special Forces in every since of the word and I would expect them to kick regular units' a$$ everyday of the week and twice on Sunday.
This. The Royal Marines are comparable to our Ranger Battalions. They receive SIGNIFICANTLY more training and have MUCH higher standards than a USMC line grunt. It's not even close. RMCs are Special Forces in every sense of the word.
This doesn't surprise me in the least. Not even bitter about it either even though I was a USMC grunt myself. It is what it is. They are a higher caliber warrior man for man than the USMC.
Side note though: the USMC just put out a new directive to increase standards for entrance along with psych evals. Stated reason is simple. We want better people going in from the get go. It'll take time but that would edge us closer to the level of the RMCs. Which is nice.