He passed out of the Commando Training Centre at Lympstone, Devon, with 161 Troop on Fri 25 Oct 2013.He will now go to 45 Commando based at Arbroath in Scotland.
During Royal Marines training the recruits learn how to escape underwater from sinking helicopters and about survival at sea. They learn how to abseil out of helicopters and how to assault cliff top positions at night time after conducting beach landings from raiding craft. They are also taught how to adapt to living and working in the wild and how to deal with survival situations. The marines recruits spend a large proportion of the course doing physical training and there are a series of tests they need to overcome to continue in training. The recruits are taught how to speed march which is a combination of marching and running carrying 32 lbs of weight and is run at a speed of one mile every 10 minutes. The final test they must overcome is the infamous 30 miler where the recruits speed march across the wilderness of Dartmoor in eight hours.
“Training is very demanding and I had many highs and lows,” said Daniel. “I arrived at Lympstone In November 2012 but I had an ankle injury which set me back in training by several months. My best memory of training is the battlefield tour in northern France my troop went on. The worst experience in training was a five day exercise on Dartmoor called Hunters Moon, which included a survival phase and where the temperatures dropped well below zero.”
When Royal Marines complete their training they are awarded the Green Beret. This indicates they have completed one of the longest and hardest military training courses in the world and have displayed the Commando qualities of unselfishness, cheerfulness in the face of adversity, courage and determination.
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