Marines or Paras?

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Just wondering which one you reckon is more bad ass? :D
 
It could be said that video is slightly tongue in cheek, I spared you the "RUSSIA STRONG!" alternatives :D
 
C company 1 Para!!!!!
 
Marines Beach Landing.....

Say no more....

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well my brother in law is a marine, and hes a pansy so i hope the paras are more bad ass!
 
US marines IIRC in that clip.
 
Nod said:
US marines IIRC in that clip.
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My Bad: "Clip not available in Germany" - I assumed it was that clip of British soldiers floundering in the mud on the al-Faw peninsula in Iraq...
 
:lol: They are welcome to use our SA80's if they want them.

Definitely British forces... Done some more digging and it looks like Rob is bang on - Royal Artillery out playing on boats....
 
smoothedit said:
:lol: They are welcome to use our SA80's if they want them.

Definitely British forces... Done some more digging and it looks like Rob is bang on - Royal Artillery out playing on boats....
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Aye thank yewwwww...:thumbs:
 
:lol: Probably a right stitch up by the Marines on them though :D
 
I heard it was a joke being played on them to win a bet and the boat skipper deliberately took them to a point of quicksand.
 
My dad-in-law is an ex-marine, he's in his 70's now. He lost his green beret during a house move so wrote to the commander of his old base to find out how to buy a replacement. They posted him a new one FOC complete with bright and black badges with a note saying

"once a marine, always a marine". Nice touch.
 
Arkady said:
They weren't Royal Marines though, were they? Signallers or Artillery or something - definitely not 'Royals'...
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Errrmmmmm they were Gunners! :$

40RA to be more exact, and the Booties stitched them like kippers! :bang: :D
 
When I was in, the Paras would take people with criminal records where the Marines would not. Don't know if this has changed over time. Also a substantial proportion of the SAS come from the paras.

Dunc
 
Another vote for Johnny G,
Nails little buggers who dont know how to quit!
 
Arkady said:
Worked with both...

My vote goes to the Ghurkas...
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I had a uncle in Burma ,in WW 2 said He was in a trech in't jungle and at 2 am ,felt a hand on his helmet and the words "nice tommy" Gurkas looking for Jap helmets.......................Needed a change of underware :eek:
 
When I was still PWRR, we did a boatmanship course once out on STANTA Training Area near Thetford. Ghurka engineers were the demo troops and safety supervisors.
On the demo of the Mk-'whatever' Assault Boat, the eight guys hauled the boat off the back of a truck, threw all their kit and rifles into it, picked it up and ran the 200m down to the river-crossing areas near the old manor house (ex-squaddies will know exactly where I'm talking about)... we had to sprint to keep up and they were halfway across the 'pond' by the time all of us were there.

came our turn, the Ghurkas 'kindly' carried the boat back up to the start-point for us.
Like they had done, the first eight (of which I was section-commander) threw our kit into the boat and...nothing...
That boat wouldn't budge...eventually and amid howls of laughter from 'Johnny' and his mates, red-faced, sweating and grunting, we dragged that bloody thing slowly all the way down to the water and pretty much collapsed in an untidy heap...

After the day was done I checked one of the Ghurka's bergens and it weighed nearly twice as much as mine...they are tough little funkers...
 
desantnik said:
LOL! I can tell you the answer for SAS vs Spetsnaz... Spetsnaz wins :cool:
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:lol:

I do love your faith in that bunch of retards sometimes. No way does a fast-tracked three-year conscript living on boiled cabbage and vodka and getting the **** kicked out of him by his SNCOs who are also merely fast-tracked conscripts compare to a professional SF soldier from the UK...

:cuckoo:
 
It's a bit like saying that all US Marines are Eeeeeelite, or that all Army Rangers are.

If you try to attribute the Tier1 tag to too many bods they end up not being Special but Spechul! :D
 
Arkady said:
I do love your faith in that bunch of retards sometimes. No way does a fast-tracked three-year conscript living on boiled cabbage and vodka and getting the **** kicked out of him by his SNCOs who are also merely fast-tracked conscripts compare to a professional SF soldier from the UK...
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Meh, but can they do this:

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Or do this whilst disguised as a cat:

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(hmmm too many of my threads seem to feature cat pictures lately, I must have a lie down or something)

:D
 
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