LC2 or LC3 RIB trainer work.

[Bootneck86]

"but is there no civilian equivalent or is there no provision for, or has no provision been made for a skills transfer protocol, ergo (Civvy - Military)..? I know it's a landing Craft but F**k me it's a boat all the same isn't it..? "

Good Morning Carl,

Well not being an ex LC rate perhaps I can give you an unbiased answer!

An LC3/LC2 will have 'civvy' skills/qualifications such as, RYA Coastal Skipper & Yachtmaster (Shorebased),RYA Day Skipper & VHF Restricted Operator Licence. Now in the commercial market anyone can pay and in a matter of days gain the RYA qualification. You can do an 'Advanced RIB Operator course, includes a night navigation period in two days!

To place in context, a LC3 course is around twelve weeks and the LC2 around fourteen weeks.
As you can see the related 'civvy/RYA' anyone can do in a short period of time then be qualified as such to sail a boat around!!
The RLI tend to find a few!

Now when it comes to the transfer of skills it is a different matter. Regarding a Landing Craft being a boat as you put it----perhaps more of a floating 'shoe box' with the handling capabilitys as such.

The military skills are not combatable with any 'civvy' boat handling, although maybe of interest in drug smuggling!
Then again perhaps not as the case maybe!!

Not just a case of skill but also the experience that an LC3/LC2 will bring to the task.
As the client in this case is a former USMC as Royal 1664 mentions, he will have a far better understanding of the 'skills' required than say a 'civvy' who just looks at an RYA qualification.

Some skills from the military are difficult to transfer to the civvy market when dealing with people who have no understanding of the military side of life.

I wonder how many CV's sent to 'Maritime Companys' never get past the HR side as the person does not know what they are looking at when it comes to a military background?

Saward

Not to mention: contact drills in and from boats; camouflage and concealment of boats; dragging boats through the mud all night down in Poole harbour; caching (cache) boats in FOBs (including burying the engines, boat ancillaries and sometimes even the boats themselves), beach reconnaissance, etc, etc, the list goes on.

And that's just the LC3's course. From there you can progress to the LC2's, and after that the LC1's - all fairly long and intensive courses, with plenty of tactical time spent in the field.

Not sure of too many civvy courses that include all this.

If any more work comes up I might be interested (ex LC3, amongst other things, who has worked down at the Raiding Instructional Team).

And if I'm not available I'm still in touch with a number of ex LCs (3s, 2s and 1s).

Unfortunately I've only just come across this thread.

All the best . . .

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