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Sep 24, 2022

This Royal Marine threw himself on a grenade – and walked away with a nosebleed

Lance Corporal Matthew Croucher’s dad says his boy is a “lucky man.” The Royal Marine was attached to 40 Commando Group in Afghanistan in 2008. On a night raid on a bomb maker’s compound in Sangin, he brushed a tripwire. The grenade sprung, then…

BYBlake Stilwell

Sep 24, 2022

BYTeam Mighty

Feb 16, 2023

This is how Royal Marines used Apaches as troop transports during a rescue mission

[brid video=”115340″ player=”7965″ title=”Mighty Minute Royal Marines”]In January 2007, a group of Royal Marines devised a risky and unorthodox mission to rescue one of their own who was trapped inside an enemy compound. To get him back, four …

BYTeam Mighty

Feb 16, 2023

BYLogan Nye

May 14, 2021

7 amazing missions by Britain’s Royal Marines

Britain is one of America’s closest allies and its service members are pretty impressive. One of its greatest forces is the Royal Marines, now known as commandos, who have fought on behalf of the British Crown since their original formation as the …

BYLogan Nye

May 14, 2021

BYEmma Liem

Mar 1, 2021

A British Marine made a hilarious video that pokes fun at officers

The divide between the military’s enlisted and officer ranks has long been a source of humor for American service members, especially when it comes to the “luxuries” that officers get. A Royal Marine recently took the banter a step f…

BYEmma Liem

Mar 1, 2021

BYEric Milzarski

Feb 26, 2021

Watch Gordon Ramsey live a day in the life of a Royal Marine

Between his colorful comments on Hell’s Kitchen and Kitchen Nightmares, and his savage

BYEric Milzarski

Feb 26, 2021

BYLogan Nye

Feb 18, 2021

What happened when the Royal Marines ‘invaded’ Estonia

The Royal Marines piled into helicopters and boats and inserted into Estonian territory, hitting positions on the mainland and on an isolated island, doing their best to inflict maximum casualties on the Estonian Volunteer Defence Force during an ex…

BYLogan Nye

Feb 18, 2021

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020

Check out this Royal Marine’s real-world Iron Man jetpack suit

Life imitates art once more, this time in the form of former Royal Marine-turned inventor-turned entrepreneur Richard Browning. Working from his Salisbury, UK garage, the inventor founded a startup that invented, built, and patented an individual hu…

BYBlake Stilwell

Apr 29, 2020

BYThe Aviationist

Apr 29, 2020

Watch Royal Marine fly with jet-pack from aircraft carrier

A quite interesting and somehow weird demo took place on Nov. 21, 2019, on board HMS Queen Elizabeth, hosting the 2019 Atlantic Future Forum (AFF) at anchor off Annapolis, Washington D.C., during UK’s largest aircraft carrier’s deployment…

BYThe Aviationist

Apr 29, 2020

BYToday I Found Out

Apr 29, 2020

That time a teenager tried to assassinate the Queen

The Queen is likely one of the single best protected people on the entire planet. But on June 13, 1981, a 17 year old young man who held a marksman’s badge from the Air Training Corps somehow managed to circumvent the endless layers of security put…

BYToday I Found Out

Apr 29, 2020

BYLogan Nye

Feb 4, 2020

That time a marine was decorated for throwing an enemy off a cliff

The first Royal Marine to receive the Victoria’s Cross earned the medal for gallantry at the Battle of Inkerman during the Crimean War when he lead his men against a Russian patrol despite being completely out of ammo. Since he couldn’t fire, he w…

BYLogan Nye

Feb 4, 2020