AEs Pass Out

The tenth Royal Marines Carpentry and Joinery Course for serving members of the AE’s branch (Assault Engineers) drew to a close on Friday 26th November, with seven members of the branch completing their 11 week course.

“Exeter College has facilitated this training for the Royal Marines since 1999,” said Nick Spreckley, deputy head of construction at the college “Since that time over 60 members of the Assault Engineers branch have passed through our doors on this course that looks at both bench joinery and site carpentry activities. As usual the group all display a real commitment to developing additional skills and learning techniques in the workshops and classrooms.”

The 11 week practical course provides the Royal Marines with both hand skills as well as wood machining skills which can be utilised in the UK within one of the Commando Units, in operational theatres across the world as well as for the many humanitarian crises and purposes the Royal Marines are involved in.