A01=Mark Time
Age Group_Uncategorized
Age Group_Uncategorized
Author_Mark Time
automatic-update
Category1=Non-Fiction
Category=BGHA
Category=DNC
Category=JWCS
Category=JWH
Category=WH
Commandos
COP=United Kingdom
Delivery_Pre-order
eq_bestseller
eq_biography-true-stories
eq_humour
eq_isMigrated=2
eq_nobargain
eq_non-fiction
Going Commando
Language_English
Military Biography
PA=Temporarily unavailable
Price_€10 to €20
PS=Active
Royal Marines
Selection process
softlaunch
Soldier Story
war stories
Product details
- ISBN 9781784186449
- Weight: 205g
- Dimensions: 130 x 200mm
- Publication Date: 06 Aug 2015
- Publisher: John Blake Publishing Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
- Language: English
Secure
checkout
Fast Shipping
Easy returns
At 16, Mark Time wants to become either a geologist or a Royal Marines Commando. So which does he choose? Despite his love of basalt, he chooses the career that teaches him how to kill...and sh*t in plastic bags. Knowing his weak body will have to shape up to complete thirty weeks of commando training, Mark prepares for the Royal Marines by sleeping in his shed wearing only plastic bags. He braves pain by ordering his mate to attack him while trapped in a sleeping bag. He starves himself in a stupid urban survival exercise, turning down the offer of crispy pancakes from his bewildered mother. He is ready. Some might say for the nut house...Often hilarious and yet shockingly sobering, this is the true story of a boy who joins one of the world's most elite military units with only naivety and incompetence equalling his will to succeed.
Mark Time battled through physical and mental disadvantage to become a commando in the Royal Marines by the age of 17. Mark writes for a number of satirical websites under the pen name Brian Flan.
