Royal Marines
Britain's Royal Marines are a special-ops capable commando force. For several years they put out a calendar called Go Commando.
Most of the calendar photos showed shirtless (but not pantless) Marines. The 2013 calendar had a few nude photos, including the cover photo and the photo above, which are two halves of a photo of Marines in a river.
This shot in the 2014 calendar shows six Marines standing on the "sheep dip" that all new recruits must swim through as part of the tough endurance course at the Commando Training Centre.
Since 2017, women have been allowed to apply, but as of 2022 no women have passed the training. On average, 26,000 people apply to join the Royal Marines Commandos every year, but only 400 make it.
The 2013 calendar included this shot. The few nude shots like this one had frontal nudity hidden, and there were no butt shots, which are common in British naked calendars. Despite this unusual degree of calendar prudery, the British Ministry of Defence banned the 2017 calendar altogether, saying that it "sexualized" the Marines. Well, of course, that's the whole point, to raise money for charity with sexy pictures. The calendar had raised hundreds of thousands of pounds to support Marine families. After a public outcry, the calendar was resumed in 2018, but with no nude photos, just shirtless ones.
I'm afraid I have no other Royal Marine nude calendar photos, so to round out this post, here are two videos of the Royal Marines. The first one is from a 2014 British TV series called Royal Marines Commando School, which showed real Marines (not actors) going through the arduous training program. The clip above is about the rules for sleeping. You must sleep naked – no exceptions!
The second video clip is from a 2012 British TV series called Royal Marines Mission Afghanistan, a documentary that followed a group of Marines on their tour of duty in Afghanistan. Above, like other wartime troops we've seen, they take the opportunity to bathe when they get the chance.
5 comments:
the calendar that everyone would like to have!
I have to wonder why sleeping naked was mandatory. I really like that last video.
Those Royal Marine calendar boys put our U.S.Marines to shame. Those Royal Marines definitely work-out, they have the better organization. US Marines better get their shit together like these MEN.
-Rj/IE
Come on, people. That calendar is absolute shit. Anything where the guys are carefully covering up their dicks is the opposite of Unashamed Males. The two videos are excellent. These are men who are not ashamed to show off their dicks and balls, whether because they are required to (in the first video) or because they truly have no shame (in the second video). That unashamed, full-frontal man in the second video is why I come to this blog!
@wanderlust - agree, calendar shots are embarrassing for those men. The last video is a favorite of mine. Also a fan of sleeping naked so glad to see the military guys do too.
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