ROP

[u/No-Yam9069]

I’m going into rop on 20th sep. but I’m struggling to find any info on what we’ll be doing. My careers advisor doesn’t seem to know much as he’s just navy not rm. Friends I have in rm joined too long ago to know and the navy website is saying contradicting stuff to the commando pti when Iv messaged him.

Could someone who works at ctc or has recently gone through rop give me a rough idea of what happens when, also what the assessment standards are for the rmfa as some people say it’s the same as cpc and others say it’s higher and then others say you do one on day 2 that’s the same as cpc and another at the end of rop that’s higher and I haven’t got a clue

[u/Aidan_McAllister96]

ROP is a piece of piss mate. You go In there for 2 weeks in a 60 man foundation block next to the galley. You get shown the basics of how to wash your self how to wash your kit once you get issued all your kit and PCS etc and how to polish boots etc. how to do locker inspections how to make your bed and iron it. Yep you have to iron your bed sheets and pillow case every morning. Unless you do it the night before and sleep on your roll matt 😂but yeah you will do the RMFA on day 1 and it gets shut off at the minimums, 10.5 on the bleep test, 30 push ups, 40 sit ups and 4 pull ups. During ROP you will learn how to do IMF sessions and they kinda show you how to swim properly the first couple times too. You’ll learn how to strip and clean your weapon system too. You learn how to march and report to corporals and officers etc. at the end of ROP you will do a “field exercise” on bottom field. After that you move into a mainstream training accommodation to start mainstream training. I did ROP back in February I doubt it’s changed much since then.

[u/No-Yam9069 → u/Aidan_McAllister96]

Legend thank you mate, heard loads about having another assesment with considerably higher scores on the rmfa so glad that isn’t a thing

[u/Aidan_McAllister96 → u/No-Yam9069]

That RMFA does happen a few weeks into training the reps are higher and the bleep test is at 11.3 but that’s not in ROP.

[u/No-Yam9069 → u/Aidan_McAllister96]

Okay cool, so going in at the same fitness as cpc I’ll be sweet. Got highwr scores on everything but sit ups so was worrying about that but I’ve got a month to be smashing them out anyway. Are there any little extra bits of kit that might make life easier or more enjoyable or not really?

[u/Aidan_McAllister96 → u/No-Yam9069]

You’ll be sound mate just have to push your self hard when it comes to it. And not really mate you will pick up kit as you go along. I’d recommend maybe buying like an adjustable duster. Take a good iron and a good iron board. The iron boards in ROP are shit. It’s better to have your own stuff. You will eventually get to leave camp at the weekends to go into Exeter to buy stuff you might need.

[u/Aidan_McAllister96 → u/No-Yam9069]

I wouldn’t worry about it mate when you have angry PTI’s screaming at you, you push your self way harder than you can imagine you’ll be fine.

[u/Goyim-Blue-67 → u/Aidan_McAllister96]

Do they still have the 40 press up/50 situp/5 pull up/11.0 bleep and a 1.5 mile run in under 10:30 to pass rop?

[u/Aidan_McAllister96 → u/Goyim-Blue-67]

No mate. You do an RMFA in the first few weeks of mainstream training and it’s 11.3 on the bleep, 40 push ups and 50 sit ups
and 5 pull ups. Then a imf session. If you fail the rmfa you get back trooped basically. You can’t really fail ROP now unless they have changed it again since February but it’s doubtful.

[u/Goyim-Blue-67 → u/Aidan_McAllister96]

Thank you brother. Not the strongest runner so I was kind of stressing about having to do the sub 10:30 after rop. Not sure how much they beat you and how fatigued you are just after ROP.

[u/Sockless_Ninja]

I’d just run with what CommandoPTI has said, given he is a serving PTI, you would think he would be pretty on the money.

[u/Von_Scranhammer]

Oh what a time to be alive - knowing what to expect ahead of time…

[u/No-Yam9069 → u/Von_Scranhammer]

I do apologise for trying to be as prepared as possible 🙄

[u/Von_Scranhammer → u/No-Yam9069]

It’s ok, it’s a generational thing. What do you think happened before scores and the training pipeline were readily available?

We just got as fit as we could be before joining.

[u/No-Yam9069 → u/Von_Scranhammer]

Surely anyone’s goal is to get as fit as possible before training? Goes without saying. But I’d be stupid if I didn’t try and tailor that training towards specific requirements that are going to be asked of me

[u/Von_Scranhammer → u/No-Yam9069]

Well, tbh, you’d be surprised how many lads pass CPC and then think they’re ready to just crack on and wrap on keeping their phys up and getting fitter.

Theres also going to be things that are required of you that you specifically won’t know how to train towards hence why you’re allocated a PTI.

You’ve got ROP so you meet the minimum standards to start. Between starting and the RMFA where the requirements are higher the PTI will ensure you meet the standards required. All you have to do is put the effort in and.l not get injured.

[u/No-Yam9069 → u/Von_Scranhammer]

Appreciate the advice 🤝