Editing Royal Marines (section)

=== Process ===
{{Main|Royal Marines selection and training}}
[[File:Royal marine who holds gun.jpeg|left|thumb|A Royal Marine stands beside a tree to sight in his weapon during a training exercise]]
[[File:Royal Marines snipers displaying their L115A1 rifles.jpg|left|thumb|Royal Marines snipers displaying their L115A1 rifles]]
Royal Marine Commandos are required to undergo the longest and one of the most physically demanding specialist infantry training courses in the world. Recruit training lasts for 36 weeks for Royal Marine Commandos and 64 weeks for Royal Marine Commando Officers. Potential recruits must be aged 16 to 32 (18 to 25 for Commissioned Officers).<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/careers/royal-marines/what-does-it-take |title=What Does It Take to Be a Royal Marine? Royal Navy Jobs |publisher=Royalnavy.mod.uk |access-date=2017-01-31 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170129115938/http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/careers/royal-marines/what-does-it-take |archive-date=29 January 2017 |url-status=live }}</ref> Applicants must undertake a series of interviews, medical tests, an eye/sight test, psychometric tests, a PJFA (pre-joining fitness Assessment), a 5-day CPC (candidate preparation course), and a 4-week ROP (recruit orientation phase).<ref name="ReferenceA">[http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/Careers/How-To-Join/Recruitment-Process/Royal-Marines Recruitment Process Royal Marines] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120224193144/http://www.royalnavy.mod.uk/Careers/How-To-Join/Recruitment-Process/Royal-Marines |date=24 February 2012 }}, royalnavy.mod.uk</ref> If an applicant successfully completes all of these phases, then they will get selected for a place in mainstream recruit training, which will take place at [[Commando Training Centre Royal Marines|CTCRM]] (commando training centre Royal Marines) in [[Lympstone]], [[Devon]], [[United Kingdom|UK]].  A large proportion of training is carried out on [[Dartmoor]]'s inhospitable terrain and [[Woodbury Common, Devon|Woodbury Common]] woodland.<ref>{{cite web |title=Woodbury &#124; information and guide to Woodbury Devon UK |url=http://www.devonlink.co.uk/smtowns/woodbury.php |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120825081332/http://www.devonlink.co.uk/smtowns/woodbury.php |archive-date=25 August 2012 |access-date=2016-11-20 |publisher=Devonlink.co.uk}}</ref>