Royal Marines Oil Rig Protection Company

[James Langham]

A fictional addition to the UK's forces.

[waiting4something]

Great write up. A friend of mine in the service got to do some cross training with these guys when he was in RTT. It's cool to see write ups on these odd ball units, that most people never heard of.

[Targan]

James, excellent work as always. When your article says "currently" does that mean as of July 2000 in the T2K universe?

[James Langham]

Originally Posted by Targan

James, excellent work as always. When your article says "currently" does that mean as of July 2000 in the T2K universe?

It does. I'll make it clearer in the next version.

[Rainbow Six]

Nice.

Just a minor suggestion...rather than calling them the Oil Rig Protection Company how about going along the same lines as the Commachio Group and borrowing a name from the Royal Marines' history? Either Gibraltar or Zeebrugge could be appropriate, although there are probably others (I used Zeebrugge myself for a piece I did on an Independent Troop in Plymouth a while ago and it's also been used for a piece on the etranger website).

Just thinking that it might serve two purposes.

1. Increase the espirt de corps

2. Help operational security by making the unit's purpose less obvious

Cheers

Dave

[Ramjam]

Nice write up. I really enjoy these little snippits.

[James Langham]

Originally Posted by Rainbow Six

Nice.

Just a minor suggestion...rather than calling them the Oil Rig Protection Company how about going along the same lines as the Commachio Group and borrowing a name from the Royal Marines' history? Either Gibraltar or Zeebrugge could be appropriate, although there are probably others (I used Zeebrugge myself for a piece I did on an Independent Troop in Plymouth a while ago and it's also been used for a piece on the etranger website).

Just thinking that it might serve two purposes.

1. Increase the espirt de corps

2. Help operational security by making the unit's purpose less obvious

Cheers

Dave

I like that Dave, I will go with that on the next version. I like Zebrugge Coy but you have used that so will check 43 Commando's history for another name.