Female recruits sign up for gruelling Royal Marines training course hoping to join all-male unit
TWO women have signed up for the gruelling Royal Marines training course.
Top brass are hopeful at least one will get through the 32-week course and earn the coveted green beret.
The Royal Marines is the last frontline unit with no women.
Since 2020, three female rookies have joined the Marines, which is part of the Royal Navy.
Two quit the Commando Training Centre at Lympstone, Devon, within weeks.
A third had her career cut short by injury.
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A source said: “It is becoming an embarrassment for the Navy that they have no female commandos.
“Bosses are thrilled that two women have signed up and are hopeful one, or both, will get through one of the toughest military inductions in the world.
“But they won’t be given special treatment.”
The two female recruits are expected to arrive in late January and will face exactly the same tests as the men.
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The Royal Navy said: “All branches of the Royal Navy and Royal Marines are open to all regardless of gender.”