NAVY NEWS, SEPTEMBER 2008 13
Where the
wild things are
WHILE Max might well have been sent WHILE Max might well have been sent saturatingsaturating humidityhumimiiddidityy..
to bed without any supper, the wild And as to the wild things? Well,
rumpus was only just beginning for the the FPGRM’s usual Scottish haunts
men of the Fleet Protection Group Royal don’t feature such unusual wildlife as
Marines amid the Central American tarantulas, snakes, lizards, giant ants
jungle of Belize. and monkeys...
More than 100 Royal Marines from the Burdened with full combat gear (not
Clyde-based unit journeyed in and out wolf-suits sensibly) and all necessary
of weeks to where the wild things are in equipment, the Marines trekked, tracked
equatorial South America. and fought through dense jungle and
The ten-day expedition, led by Maj across rivers before setting up camp
Jamie Summers, honed the jungle- in hammocks beneath the lofty jungle
fighting skills of the 110 men from canopy.
FPGRM and another 40 RM Reservists And each morning they would pull
in the humid atmosphere of the dense back on their clothes, still soaking from
forest all around. the previous day’s humidity and river-
After a brief three-day period of dips, in the familiar wet-dry routine of
acclimatisation at the British Army this challenging environment.
Training Support Unit Belize, the ● Royal Marines from FPGRM exercise
Marines plunged into the jungle to in the jungles of Belize, photographed by
get to grips with the searing heat and LA(Phot) Kelly McAlinden
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