yeah i checked it and it said this

How long will I serve for?
As a Royal Marines commando you will serve an open engagement which last for 18 years or to the age of 40, whichever is longer. This can be extended up to the age of 55. You will usually be able to hand in 12 months' notice if you wish to leave after serving at least three years.

What excatly is this open engagment ?

P.s Didnt see it at 1st but now have (3years + 12month notice)

Prior to that telling them you will be living... would they give you crap jobs and and stuff for your last 12 months>?

Reply 4

Q_M

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yeah i checked it and it said this

How long will I serve for?
As a Royal Marines commando you will serve an open engagement which last for 18 years or to the age of 40, whichever is longer. This can be extended up to the age of 55. You will usually be able to hand in 12 months' notice if you wish to leave after serving at least three years.

What excatly is this open engagment ?

P.s Didnt see it at 1st but now have (3years + 12month notice)

Prior to that telling them you will be living... would they give you crap jobs and and stuff for your last 12 months>?

My cousin was a marines and he left after 3 years for various reasons. So it can be done.

I read 13 years somewhere, thats clearly not what you've found. I would say yours is much more likely.

Best of waiting for someone who knows what they are talking about!

Reply 5

djmm

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You will serve for the first 6 months under the open-PVR engagement; after which you will be required to serve for 4 years before handing in 6 months notice. No idea where the 3 years and 12 month notice has come from, but it's the same for the RM as the RN (as the RM is part of the RN), and that is definitely the case -- a couple of my mates are stuck in various RNAS/ RAFB's around the country because they didn't decide until after their PVR window had closed that they wished to leave.

You can, however, leave during this time if you have a job which is capable of fulfilling your financial commitments - decided at the Forces discretion.

The open engagement used to be (when I joined up) 22 years, excluding age of entry - which they countered by barring age of entry. With the amalgamation of the Forces assets and the introduction to our tri-Service ways, this changed - taking the mould of the RAF's structure.

You will continue to do what you have been trained to do after handing in your notice (though rumours continue to fly of standards of conduct displayed by senior-whatevers droppinh). Reasoning behind it is, they've paid for you be trained to do whatever you do - and in the last 12 months they'll need you to do your job as much as they did before you decided the Mob wasn't for you (meanwhile they're taking your choice into consideration and starting recruiting other folk to fill your shoes (literally)). If they made you do the **** jobs then you'd lose focus, even more so, thus, you'd be rendered useless - and your RoS rendered void for the duration of your notice.

Reply 6

Gep91

You can, however, leave during this time if you have a job which is capable of fulfilling your financial commitments - decided at the Forces discretion.

During what time? The whole thing or your 6 months notice?

minimum service for royal marines?

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