Some questions if you don't mind answering them:
 

Does the USMC bring more units to Battle Griffin than the other forces, particularly the RM?

 

 Is airpower allowed (this could be a huge force multiplier in the US' favor)

 

Who else is typically involved?

 

You said that the RM usually have an edge in physical fitness, what areas would you say they had the biggest advantage? What does their pt consist of compared to the USMC's, etc.

Just to be clear, I don't mean any offence, but your recent posts have just been the usual nationalistic bs.

 

First some background on Battle Griffin, BG, from what I can remember.

 

 It used to be I think an annual or maybe bi-annual event until 2002 when there was a rev up for OIF.  That was the yr I was supposed to go w/ 2nd Marines.  Instead I was sent to Small Craft  just B4 it started and got sent out on an Anti-Terrorism Sec. Det w/them. But I trained up for it & it was all NCOs talked about.  Trying to pump us up for some Force on Force.

We had 1RMC Major and 2 or 3 Color Sgts throughout 2nd Marines, I would see them a lot during CAX, Combined Arms Exer., a 3mth Ex in the Mojave Des, it was a US lead up to BG.  We had a Drinking tent & the SNCO/Offs would joke w/ the Brits about past BGs. Just listening in is the type of sh*t you join for.  It was all they talked about, besides Libo w/the Norwegian Girls. 

Anyway BG is about 8 countries. The premise is to pretend this powerful country east of the Baltic “Russia” went on the Offense.  How could you tie them up in the Baltic Straights.  They used the Corps’ concept of Maneuver Warfare.  Lightning quick Company &BN sized raids on and from the many islands in the Baltic.

But Battle Griffin was basically, Blue team raids various islands and harasses Red team.  Red team tries to take them back.

Awesome, that sounds like a blast. I have always heard about how bad the USMC does at these exercises, but the poster who says that never gives any facts whatsoever, you sort proved all that to be completely false.

 

I gotta say it guys (to the guys who are "rah rah British Infantry, USMC sucks"), you just got Owned by SCCO. Better luck next time.

 

Yimmy, I don't think this is nationalistic bs, he did provide a whole lot of facts. I'm not saying that the USMC is better than the RM, because they still have different mission tasks, but anyone who knocks the USMC (or any other force) needs to back it up with facts.

 "You said that the RM usually have an edge in physical fitness, what areas would you say they had the biggest advantage? What does their pt consist of compared to the USMC's, etc."

But the way we crush Jr Marines w/pressure to be perfect or "Mentally Hard" in everything, they find insane.  They are much more forgiving of mistakes by their Jr Mar's.  The fact that we have extreme, almost torturous punishments to get Jr Mar’s tactically proficient or learn the value of “awareness” and “attention to detail”.  They find that equally as intense to them as their PT regiment is to us. 

We can both take it, but it’s a different training philosophy.

Our most physically fit guys are as fit as any of theirs. But unit to unit to a man their avg Marine is in much better shape.

When I was in SCCO we had a RMC Plt visit the Camp LeJeune for training w/various units on base. The RMC Color Sgt attached to us asked them if they wanted to stay and workout w/us.

We would do morning PT together. The pace of the runs they do is killer.  We would go on 8 and 10 mi runs. The distance wasn’t a problem, but the pace dropped about 1/3 of the Marines.  That came mostly b/c we weren’t used to that kind of pace.  I’m a rabbit and I had bust my *ss to keep up.  Grass Drills too, they would go to crazy repetitions.

 So it’s a trade off. We are equally as good and interchangeable.  We've proved that many times in personnel exchanges, exercises, and war.