A new PFT: Why the Corps might adopt the Royal Marines’ fitness tests

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A new PFT: Why the Corps might adopt the Royal Marines’ fitness tests
By: Shawn Snow
February 12 at 11:48 AM
 

“Formidable opponent.”

That was the phrase used recently by Royal Marines describing a training evolution aboard Twentynine Palms, California — where British and American Marines were pitted against each other in a mock fight.

British tactical armored vehicles carrying mortar teams and commandos scoured the California desert landscape as they battled against American Marines, Harriers and drones.

“The Brits had a lot of capabilities that were near peer,” Lt. Jason Hunter, a U.S. Marine ­platoon leader, said in a press release. “They used air power, indirect fire and vehicles well — it really was a difficult problem they posed for us.”

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