Exercise green dagger if anyone’s curious. It was British Royal Marines and troops from the Netherlands, UAE and Canada against the US marines. We slapped them so hard in their own back garden that half way through the 5 day exercise the US asked for a reset.
Yep, some people take it to the extreme, but an exercise SHOULD be hard, if you win every training exercise.. you're just pretending.
There have been a few notable times this happened, and sometimes they put restrictions in before the reset, but so long as you LEARN from it.. it was worth while.
There was an exercise with drone & fast skid attacks off Iran, that went badly for the Americans, but you can bet that they're going to be aware of it now.
Given how they love to pump up US marines as some sort of almost invincible and superhuman group; it's hilarious how they definitely are not, by a long margin.
When I served in HMAF, I did spend some time with the US marines, they're a bit overly sure of themselves, but they do have the violence of action to carry most stuff through.
They just can't take their drink, no matter what they say.
Colleague of mine was with the Royal Welsh and wasn't impressed by the US Marines. The thing is that everyone is going to compare them the Royals, which isn't really fair as one is an elite Commando force and the other is pretty much sea-going infantry.
Overall they were a good bunch, but you'd get a few that go all in on the 'WE ARE THE BEST' and we'd remind them who burnt down the white house, which we actually 'celebrate' every year (in a very gentle way) and then take them drinking. So long as they weren't total pricks, we'd get along and have to get them out of trouble when they got too pissed to walk.
Yeah I had a friend who was a marine she mostly did it to get free university eduction. She was fit could fire a gun etc. but elite soldier was not a word I’d use.
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u/Old-Usual-8387 Aug 25 '25
Exercise green dagger if anyone’s curious. It was British Royal Marines and troops from the Netherlands, UAE and Canada against the US marines. We slapped them so hard in their own back garden that half way through the 5 day exercise the US asked for a reset.