Exercise Green Claymore is a pre-Arctic training course in the Scottish Highlands and is led by the British Royal Marines Mountain Leader Training Cadre with the aim of improving mountaineering and cold-weather survival.
Green Claymore delivers a rigorous mountain warfare training package designed to reinforce basic Commando skills, build understanding of the mountainous environment and its impact on warfighting operations, ahead of winter training exersises in Norway.
The Exercise is staged out of Cameron Barracks in Inverness and consists of vertical assault techniques, traversing ridges using fixed lines, winter skill training (using ice axes and crampons), obstacle crossing, and river cross skills (including wading) as well as cold weather warfare survival, first aid, casualty evacuation, specialist cold weather equipment training also built into the programme to form the building blocks for a successful winter deployment.
The Mountain Leader Training Cadre serves as a specialized training unit within the Royal Marines, focusing on instruction in mountain warfare, arctic warfare, cold weather survival, and cliff assault operations. This Cadre is staffed by a dedicated team of instructors with expertise in mountain and arctic warfare, responsible for training mountain leaders for deployment within the corps’ various formations. It operates under the Mountain Leader and ISTAR Company, which is part of the Specialist Wing at the Commando Training Centre Royal Marines, located in Lympstone.
