Potential Royal Marine Course

The Potential Royal Marines Course, often abbreviated to PRMC, is the Royal Marines selection course for Potential Recruits. The course is held at the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines, and is designed to assess a candidate's suitability for entry into the Royal Marines.

candidates arrive at the centre and receive a briefing and some boots.

On the second day candidates are given basic drill training and then undertake a 2.4 km run as a group within 12.5 minutes and then a second 2.4 km run as quickly as possible in under 10 minutes. These runs are undertaken outside.

Gym tests are conducted in the afternoon of the first day. There are four main physical criteria that must be completed in the gym, each is marked out of 100 points and candidates must achieve a minimum of 180 points. These are:

After Gym tests there is a short swimming assessment. This is the final assessment of the day and involves you jumping off the high diving board (3m) in normal swimming kit and swimming a maximum of 4 lengths (approx 100m) of breast stroke. You must complete at least 1 length. If you complete 1 but less than 4 lengths you will be graded as a WEAK SWIMMER and you will be advised to improve before joining and could delay your start date for joining recruit training.

During the third day candidates complete:

On the fourth day candidates get a lecture from a physical training instructor, a medical briefing and a pay briefing. Candidates are then told if they have passed or not.

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