Phase One Individual Skills Training

Phase one covers your individual skills training, when you’ll learn the basics of being a Royal Marines Commando. Your training will cover the following:

Basic Fieldcraft:

As a Royal Marines Commando, you’ll need to stay healthy and fit to fight while living in the field, often far from outside support. You’ll learn to construct different types of shelters, or ‘bivvies’, prepare different types of ration pack and master the arts of camouflage and concealment.

Navigation:

By the end of the course, you’ll be able to find your way across all types of terrain using nothing more than a map and compass, inall weathers and by day or night.

Weapon Training:

Even if you’ve never handled firearms before, using the 5.56mm rifle will soon become second nature. You’ll learn how to maintain it and complete a live firing test.

Physical Training:

Physical training, or ‘phys’, forms the backbone of everything you’ll do in RMR. We’ll help you build your fitness before the commando tests, but you’ll have to put in a lot of effort in your own time, too.

Course at CTCRM:

Phase One ends in a two-week course at CTCRM. We’ll assess you on your progress so far on weapon training, camouflage and concealment and make a timed run over the assault course.