Talk:Netherlands Marine Corps

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Fair use rationale for Image:Korps Mariniers.jpg
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Papua New Guinea
Hey,

I know for a fact that marines train there in the jungles. It can be edited in. Also, respect for the guys in Ar Rumaythah andAl Khidr ;) 81.68.255.36 (talk) 18:22, 10 March 2010 (UTC)

Recruitment and Training
"Only men are allowed to serve as marines but many female navy personnel are attached to marine corps units as cooks, administrators, nurses or medical officers." Ugh... really? Cooks? Could we formulate this better? Because this just looks wrong. (No, I'm not female.) Thx.217.121.86.187 (talk) 01:30, 6 August 2014 (UTC)
 * There are also female navy pilots who work closely with marines.
 * There are also male navy personnel that cook for the marines.
 * Actually, why mention anything further then "Only men are allowed to serve as marines.".

Outdated
I've added some more info, as recent as I could find, but this whole article kinda needs an overhaul because of al the military restructuring in the past. Some sections are current, others are not. Operational marines are now all trained up to to SOC standard, and this influences all prior restructure training courses. I've worked on the Dutch Wikipedia article NLMARSOF as well, and recent info is really hard to come by. I've emailed several authorities but was send back and forth until I got tired of it. Karel Adriaan (talk) 07:01, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

POTOM toughness level
The article requested a needed citation, and I found a Dutch article covering this topic.

The cited website states that most applicants won't make it through POTOM selection. Those that do, often are a very a small group, "enkele tientallen" (literally "some tens", translating to "a few dozen"). Of those few dozen, well over 50% won't make it.

It's very simple. First of all, POTOM selection/training is much more demanding than the EVO. It's simple logic. POTOM = EVO + More. For a perhaps better understanding you can check the Royal Marines training/selection for officers, POC. The Royal Marines and Dutch Marines undergo almost identical training, and personnel are constantly exchanged between the two. They're basically non-identical twins.

Second, the Netherlands has three Special Forces units, KCT, NLMARSOF and the BSB. Only one of those uses an initial training course where civilians can directly apply to, the Korps Commandotroepen. The other two recruit only from experienced personnel, so initial training has happened beforehand. All the regular military units and the elite Airmobile Brigade use a less demanding initial training course then that of the Korps Mariniers.

So saying that POTOM training is the most demanding is simply not true. The Korps Commandotroepen has an attrition rate of up to 100% overall, and up to 95% for experienced military personnel. No marine officer comes even close. Karel Adriaan (talk) 11:51, 13 October 2017 (UTC)

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Jochan de Witt.
Ladies and gentlemen, I'm looking for a Marine officer named Roon, who was the head of the Dutch team in the Soviet Union, when delivering humanitarian aid to Kazan in April 1991. We are talking about very important things related to the history and culture of your state. I am in Cologne, without documents, with the most disgusting status ("suspension of deportation"). Rune knows me and I trust him. He was an officer in the Royal Netherlands Marines. With a request to help me find this person (if he is still alive). Sincerely, Iskander Ulumbekov, photojournalist. (mrechius@gmail.com) My residential address is: Haus Worringen, zimmer 204, Alte Neusser Landstrasse, 273, Koln-Worringen, BRD. 2001:16B8:A33:7C00:E00C:DA52:C359:5F7 (talk) 11:34, 5 July 2022 (UTC)

Uniforms
In the Uniforms part of the Traditions section, there is incomplete information. The line about mess dress uniform currently reads as “and consists of a smoking,”. The meaning of this is unclear. Someone should explain it so it can be written in a better way. Dreddmoto (talk) 20:58, 21 January 2023 (UTC)

Organisation
That section currently lacks any mention of the Rotterdam Marine Band of the Royal Netherlands Navy. One small subsection could be added there, equivalent in size to the subsection titled Marine Education Centre. Dreddmoto (talk) 19:04, 22 January 2023 (UTC)