{"id":177681,"date":"2024-07-08T15:19:09","date_gmt":"2024-07-08T14:19:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/?p=177681"},"modified":"2024-07-08T15:42:30","modified_gmt":"2024-07-08T14:42:30","slug":"marine-trainers-not-expected-to-yell-at-recruits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/foxnwolf.com\/locknload\/?p=177681","title":{"rendered":"Marine trainers not ‘expected’ to yell at recruits"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pic; Family Handout “Connor Clark, pictured with his mother Tracy Clark, played rugby for The Crusaders at Little Melton”<\/p>\n

Royal Marine instructors are not “expected” to shout and swear at trainees, a senior officer has told an inquest into the death of a teenage recruit.<\/b><\/p>\n

Connor Clark, 18, from Norwich, was found dead on rail tracks near the Commando Training Centre in Lympstone, Devon, on 12 June 2021.<\/p>\n

At the inquest in Exeter, coroner Philip Spinney has heard that the teenager received more “thrashings” – a physical punishment from instructors – than others because he made more mistakes.<\/p>\n

Recruits described the instructors being “in their face” shouting and swearing at them.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The coroner questioned training centre commandant Col Innes Catton about “that method of training”.<\/p>\n

He told Col Catton: “It is not lost on me that the Royal Marines are some of the most elite troops in the world, but I would like to get a sense for the reason for that method of training and that approach to training.”<\/p>\n

Col Catton replied: “Those methods are not the methods we would choose to use to train some of the best infantry in Nato.<\/p>\n

“As I understand it, inappropriate language has been one of the key themes that has come out.<\/p>\n

“There is no requirement for that. “It is certainly not expected, and we don’t want that.”<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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The inquest heard how Connor Clark used a duvet to scale the razor-fence around the Royal Marines’ Commando Centre at Lympstone, Devon<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

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The inquest heard recruits were shouted at with instructors using various swear words.<\/p>\n

Recruit Clark, who went to Thorpe St Andrew School near Norwich, was three weeks into a four-week recruit orientation phase course – a course Marine recruits undertake before beginning initial training.<\/p>\n

Days before his death, he had misplaced a blank firing adapter for his rifle and had made comments about being a “failure” and the “worst recruit”, the inquest has previously heard.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Col Catton said Royal Marine training had undergone a “fundamental shift” in the last two decades.<\/p>\n

“We want people to join, and we need these bright young people, and we are very fortunate to attract some of the very best of society,” he said.<\/p>\n

“There is a responsibility there to give them the very best instruction.<\/p>\n

“If I was to think more broadly about what we do at the Commando Training Centre with that initial entry, what we are really doing is helping them realise their potential.<\/p>\n

“Some of that training is very hard and some of the psychology around it is very hard and very uncomfortable.”<\/p>\n

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