Little fun fact about a team of Dutch Marines, they broke the world record speed March, last year October 2020, which was than in hands of GBR with a time of 4.16.48 hours. The Dutchies did it with a full United (21 man) a PT uniform and 40 pounds packing, in a time of 3.58.55. 18 minutes under the old record. They where aloud to switch between running And marching. Which they didt, they switched on and off 59 min. Running, 1 min marching. And so on. Speed mars was a marathon length. The Dutchies trained 1 year straight 6-8 times a week. GBR trained 5 years. To come with there time, which stood for 3 years.

My dad was one of them, so proud of him. He served twice in Aruba, Our family lived there for 7 years

The original Marine Corps. The one from 16xx, was used to destroy the Chain blocking the Medway river at Chatham. Dutch sunk several ships and took the Flagship of the British to the Netherlands. They they still destroyed it as it was not build for Dutch shallow waters. There is even a roumor (not know if true) that the people of Chatham did not want the Dutch to leave. This because the British Army took the food. And the Dutch payed for the food.

We hoped to stay neutral like the First World War, we didn’t want to meddle in all that stuff, and while we were occupied we had a big and fairly productive resistance. We even have a sort of theme park “Madurodam” which is basicly a park filled with miniatures that is named after a resistance fighter George Maduro.

In the Medway raid we captured the English flagship and towed it of to the Netherlands. Worst defeat of the Royal Navy EVER. Have a look at the movie Michiel de Ruyter ( it might be under "The admiral"in the US . Though there are several movies with that name so make sure to pick the right one ) It plays in this time and the admiral in question was a pretty bad ass dude

Also take a look at: Michiel de Ruyter: One of the Greatest Admirals in History

Loved the way your eyes lid up and your mind was blown seeing the little chopper drone.

yeah in the original vid. they butchered the fact that the Netherlands were NOT neutral, but the rest of the vid. is pretty awesome, the one female he was talking about never passed basic training though due to an injurie, after that she even tried it a second time but failed again... thx for the request and the reaction....... QUA PATET ORBIS ..... en de groetjes naar alle veteranen en voormalige mariniers van een ouwe marinier , die nu in Duitsland leeft ...... en gezond blijven aub.

This is just laughable. Not your comment, but what the guy is telling. The Netherlands tried to remain neutral, but after the early morning of May 10, 1940, the Netherlands was fully at war with Germany. Germany invaded the Netherlands without a declaration of war. Due to budget cuts, the Dutch army was in a poor condition and unable to withstand the well-trained and equipped German army. After 4 days of fighting, the Germans failed to take Rotterdam. Fiercely defended by the "Black Devils" the Marines. To break the resistance, the German Luftwaffe bombed Rotterdam with the threat of flattening other Dutch cities. Then the army was forced to surrender. But through the 4 days of fighting, the German army and especially the Luftwaffe had been so weakened, they lost many transport planes, actually never recovered, much to Hitler's anger. Read the book The Battle of the Residence.

Today’s my husband’s last day in the army, so proud he served for 41 years, ❤️✌️my grandfather of my father’s side was a marine man, my father was born in wow two in Indonesië in a kamp. Marine, Army or Air Force are different kind of people.My father wanted to be a Marine but he was rejected, he had a hearing problem which he never knew.

Dutch marines receive jungle training in French Guyana from the french foreign legion, also arctic training in Norway and the list goes on. so it takes a long time to become a dutch marine as any elite force would need a lot of training.

About the neutrality stuff: We declared ourselves neutral in the 1st world war, built up a massive army and managed to convince Germany, France and England (mostly Germany) that we were too much trouble. By the time the 2nd world war came around we declared ourselves neutral again, but we forgot about the massive army thing. Our army had only 9 divisions and was severely lacking in support (like artillery). The Germans threw 22 of the most modern modern and fully supported divisions at the Netherlands and Belgium. So, we wanted to remain neutral, but that didn't work out. We did put up a valiant defense. The Dutch army was technically not defeated, it was ordered to stand down after the bombing of Rotterdam and the German promise to do Amsterdam next, and then another city every day we didn't capitulate. The Dutch Korps Mariniers was facing the German Fällschirmjäger at Rotterdam. It was the Dutch marines vs the German airborne, fighting over the bridges near Rotterdam. And the Marines held, so the Germans changed their tactics to bombing.

There is no drafting anymore for many decades now, and everyone joins the military for their own reasons, but the one's who join with the sincerity of helping others, them I respect. 💜

I have worked for the Ministery of Defence for more then 35 years, at the ammunition department.

My late brother was a Marinier back in de 70s, 80s.🌷

@5:30 yeh...you know this brother you both fight with and also love to bits....thats us and the English

Great to see this video, thankfull for the people in the army and military!🙏

Actually, really the basis for the 'Korps Mariniers' lies in the 80 years war of independence against Spain (1568 - 1648) where the shipborne Dutch forces (De Geuzen of Watergeuzen) )generally performed ship-to-ship fighting but then also performed organized land-battle once the fight at sea was done. One of the basic weapons they used was the hand-lobbed explosive fragmentation charge that is currently known as the handgrenade. One of the first instances where such a device was used in an integral manner throughout its forces.

the Dutch marines is not the oldest marine corps, i think that goes to Portugal. but the Dutch marines are the first marines in the modern sense of the word. Portuguese and later marines of other countries, were troops specializing in ship to ship combat. the Dutch marine were the first to be extensively trained to do amphibious landings, as well as capture and hold locations with limited numbers of troops. during the raid on the Medway that the video talks about, The Dutch, under nominal command of Willem Joseph van Ghent and Lieutenant-Admiral Michiel de Ruyter, over several days bombarded and captured the town of Sheerness, sailed up the Thames estuary to Gravesend, then sailed into the River Medway to Chatham and Gillingham, where they engaged fortifications with cannon fire, burned or captured three capital ships and ten more ships of the line, and captured and towed away the flagship of the English fleet, HMS Royal Charles. the reason why The Netherlands was Neutral during world war 2, was because it had declared itself neutral. just like it did in world war 1, this only changed when Germany invaded. and after it did, the military mounted a desperate but futile defense. Germany invaded in may 10 1940, and by may 15 1940 The Netherlands officially surrendered. thus coming under German occupation.

5:30 in 1689 the primary Dutch aristocratic leader called the stadhouder conquered Great-Britain and became king. His name is Stadhouder Willem III or King William III.

You say 2400 marines is not much, but the US is 20 times bigger in inhabitants. So it compares to 48,000 marines in the US. Is that better?

Respect the Dutch marinecorps.

fun fact : the netherlands have the oldest "navy seals". before they were called "navy seals" they where a batavian tribe working for the roman empire 1 century A.D. check out this serie Ancient AsAsins S02 - Ep04 Rome's Navy Seals

(Nice) fact, that stadhouder De Witt was cutted in pieces by the folks of The Netherlands.

11:50 is called the UKNLlanding force

Afaik the Romans trained soldiers to specifically fight on ships (not being sailors) for the 2nd Punic war. One could call those the first marines.

Its funny that us dutchies make fun of the american for there patriotism with all the flags and stuff. But all these dutch suggestions for reactions show that we are too very about patriotism. We call it "vaderlandsliefde"

MARSOF, as in MARitime, Special Operation Force. ( I capitalized the letters to highlight the abbreviation.

The little drone was on the technical tv program bright they cost €40.000 for one pair. Each with a different camera.

The Royal Dutch Marine Corps is rough, tough, highly trained and good enough to measure up to anybody. But there aren't enough of them for actual war purposes. But as anybody who has ever trained with them will attest, they are very nice guys. And at the end of joint training exercises they always give you back your balls without making an issue out of it. 😉

Top notch

the dutch marines are pretty awesome, won't you say.?!?!

I was in the army fore 13 years and could you please watch dutchbat 3 in srebrenica it was our Vietnam a realy bad time

We battled with the English, than the English got tired of their King... who's daughter got married to Dutch Royalty and than the English asked her as an heir to take over the country and thrown with her husband. So technically the Netherlands is the ONLY country that England as a country allowed it to invade and take over. Maybe because they knew we were powerful enough to make it so and because the coincidence was that the heir was married to the Orange royal family. This gave William of Orange the names William II of England and King Billy in Ireland, where they still celebrate the victory of the Battle of the Boyne. Which caused the whole Catholic and Protestant split in Ireland and Northern Ireland and is still a problem up untill this day including the fact that Brexit was held up because of that said border and the rules and regulations regarding trade across the border and passage accross the border. This since Europe has/had free roaming of citizens within the EU borders via the Shengen treaty. So William II of England and Queen Mary II of England ruled over England for a period of time. In England's history this period is called the Glorious Revolution. Which resulted in a Bill of Rights (constitution) that was very similar to the Dutch consitution as was signed ~100 years earlier. Now roughly ~100 years later the USA got their constitution which was based upon the English constitution and is thus a direct descendent of the Dutch constitution ~200 years earlier. So I don't think it's weird to say that the Dutch are the foundation of the world as we know it today. The way of executing liberties, freedom of religion, freedom of trade, stockmarket system, even the 2nd amendment (which is something we lost after WW1 by the way), democracy and all that stuff that you think is "typical American"... most likely it'll have strong Dutch roots.

And a lot more weapons older and new kinds... and the c7 is a C7NLD, and some use the C8

@11:00 it is not many, our military is heavily underfunded at just 0.7% of gdp , this is mainly due operation within broader collectives usually as a support to the brits french and US military, and of course general political unwill

We were not neutral in the second World War. We declared neutrality as we did in the first World War, but we simply surrendered (after the bombing of Rotterdam to spare more civilian casualties) and became occupied

You should chek out :: how to survive dutch fireworks from survival guide to the dutch, its funny and acurate af

I used to be in high school with the guy at 1:50

Qua patet Orbis! Tnhx. A proud ( old) marine.

We stayed out of the war, but the war dint stay out of us

As for the earlier history pieces, I think that difference between wars, and then allied has to do with the royal families. First of course comes the wars because the houses are separated and separated states. And when they're allied I believe that's by the time that Willem of Orange assisted rebels in the taking of the UK or something, and then they saw Willem as an ally. I'm not a history scolar so please do factcheck and correct me if I'm wrong.

The Germans hoped to run over the Netherlands in short time but......they met fears resistance at the Afsluitdijk, Rhenen(Grebbenlinie) and the Rotterdam Maas bruggen as mentioned above. At these places the Germans suffered dearly. The Dutch Marines of Rotterdam could successfully keep the Germans from crossing the bridges over the river Maas. Many German soldiers where send on the bridges where they had little cover and got shot one by one buy these marines who sat in full cover. The Germans got sick of it and they threatened to bomb the city. Shortly before(15 min) the German bomber planes arrived the Dutch gave up because risking thousands of lives was not an option. The German general gave order that the planes would turn away. The German genaral Rudolf Schmidt had not received message that in Germany planes for Rotterdam were started. So he did not order actions. The plan was that in case of aborting the bombing that would be communicated by shooting up red flairs. There were two squadrons in the air. One from the south and one from the east.....out of Germany. The wave coming from the south saw the red flairs and turned away. The other squadron had seen no flairs and flew right to the heart of the city. My father was a kid aged twelve. He was on the other side of the river Maas and standing on the rooftops of a milk factory (Galak) he saw the bombing. 80.000 people lost there homes and 900 died. When you walk trough the inner city the scars of the bombing are still to see. You only must know were to look.

We where neutral in the first WW, not the Second WW we fought back. Not only the army but the underground to

My Dream job wel I stil have to wait bc i am 12 and I always wante d to Bee in the milatery en ik zit al bijna op de midelbare☺

I want one 🤣

Well we invaded England in 1688 after that we were usually on the same side

Another fact about our marinesvand the origin of their nickname: there was a story among the german troops about the marines with black uniforms, appearing out of nowhere from the canals, like devils with knifes between their teeth and just started stabbing some german soldiers into oblivion... i don't know for sure if this really has happened, but multiple sources have mentioned it.

second world war we were invaded and fought a few days,then occupied and terrorized for 5 years,thats not neutral

Question 🙋🏼‍♀️ where is the video of you and those other two guys watching about Rotterdam? Can’t find it 😅

10:40 Fun fact, the US only has 150 more SEALS, they have a total of 2450.

We invented the Marine Corps

We were neutral during ww1, not ww2. My grandfather joined the Marines during ww2 and was trained in America. However then was shipped to Indonisia and never fought against the Germans. I worked at the marine base in Rotterdam for 10 years.

the way he says netherLAAAANDS irritates TF out of me lol

My uncle was a green baret. So this is very interesting to me.

The Dutch marines fought against the English, then invaded, and a little while later the English king got replaced by a Dutch one. Then the relations increased and they were on and off allies for a couple of centuries depending on shared interests and the dislike for the French and Spanish.

hello....we were not neutral in WOII :)

In the Netherlands the soldiers have to say 'Pang Pang' during training because of the shortage of ammunition.

Neutral in the first world war, invaded in the seconded world war, not neutral anymore.

This dude gets so many "facts" wrong it's not even funny anymore. The Dutch Marines are something special outright. It would be worth your while to get a little more accurate info about them. Much respect to all these guys from a proud son of a Marinier.

I am pissed off by the dude saying we were neutral during WOII. That is not even remotely true. Like, seriously. What the f*ck.

We were nutral in world war 1 not 2.

That bit about neutrality is complete gibberish. The Netherlands was neutral but was invaded anyway by Germany as were Belgium and Luzembourg (the second time for both of them). After you're invaded you're no longer neutral, we fought back and pretty well until they bombed Rotterdam and threatened more bombings. The Dutch gov't and queen fled to England and most of the navy went with them and joined the British navy (under the Dutch flag but British command). When the Japanese attacked the East Indies the Dutch troops and Navy there fought back too. The Dutch navy sank a ship a day for the first 100 days after Pearl Harbour. Some navy ships escaped to Australia after the disastrous battle of the Java Sea which was led by Ducht rear-admiral Karel Doorman. After that there all that was left in Dutch hands was Suriname and the Caribbean islands. Aruba was important for the US for the oil refineris and Suriname for the bauxite, from which they make aluminium. So no, the Netherlands were not neutral during WW2 although they had planned to be.

If you like this video, check out the video about the Dutch Navy: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ms2CgpNj1NSuqGw.html&ab_channel=KoninklijkeMarine

For some Dutch humor, Arjan lubach, the Netherlands second🤣

The whole neutrality bit is misguided. The Dutch had hoped to stay neutral in WW II as they had in WW I. That thought went out of the window of course as soon as the Nazis invaded.

Look up the BBT (Bijzondere BijstandsTeam) and the 1977 Train Hijacking (when we used -an F16- F104's (see correction by Spek&Bonen below) to distract the hijackers). A friend of mine was part of that team and is STILL fu'd. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/oKiPptl7nLreY5c.html

lmao we were NOT neutral in WW2. We (in Rotterdam) fought until the very last day.

Only neutral in the 1 ww not the second!

Neutral until May 10th 1940. After not so much.

Al Qaida supposedly dropped the Twin Towers... in 2001.... 2020 USA allies with Al Qaida to fight against ISIS... I was just as surpirised as you where watching this video :D

The dutch were NOT neutral in ww2. There was heavy resistance all throughout the war

kosovo is former yugoslavia dude!

The guy is not right about the Netherlands being 'neutral' in WW2. That is just a ridiculous statement, with the Netherlands fighting the Germans and Japan.

You can't compare Dutch Marines to US marines. They are special forces, but I can and will not compare them to other US forces like Navy Seals, because we also have Korps Commandotroepen that are like Navy Seals.

The whole "neutral in WW2" bit seems fishy to me. I don't think we were that neutral, maybe at first but that quickly changed.

You sad that 2.300 are not very many but the netherlands compleet army exist about 40.000 soldiers

Like the Danes We've been into boatbuilding and fighting on water since roman times. Also the Germans saw us as equal pure Aryan/Germanic stock, there was no disrespect. Many dutch joined the Westland regiment, to then fight in the Viking Division. Helping our German brothers against the communists of Russia. But the winners (we surely didn't win) write the history in their benefit.

As a former Dutch Marines veteran. Females taking the course, sure go girls, prove you're every bit as strong as men. I applaud you, no joke. But when it comes to deployment, no friggin way I'm teaming with a woman, or allow a woman on a team. Reason? Getting caught behind enemy lines isn't fun as a guy (torture and such), imagine what a female gets to endure. Never on my watch you'll be raped for info by a platoon of hatebeards.

As far as the world extends, however Vlissingen is too far.

The Netherlands were neutral in the first world war not in the second

It's sad that they are needed. But I'm glad that they are there. I hate Warr. It's sad that it is there. I hate weapons, Warr, and the coverment. I hate the people behind it. I would say.. Give the coverment and the defense a ring where they can fight it off and leave the weapons alone.

The comment about the Netherlands being neutral during WWII is completely FALSE! The Netherlands was neutral during WWI, but fought during WWII. However this fight did not last long, because the Dutch army was massively outnumbered by a superior German army. So after about 8 days of fighting, the Netherlands where then occupied by the Germans. During the remainder of WWII and the occupation there was a log of "resistance" by clandestine groups, but no regular fighting.

The Dutch were NOT neutral in WW2

Some facts are wrong... We were not neutral in WW2 but tried to be neutral but we were attacked anyway. And there are not 2000 people in the navy but a lot more.

We dutch are very proud of these guy and woman . but iam not proud of our leaders how constantly give less money to the Marine Corps and the army in general. That make me mad and said 😭👎 .. 2 or 3 years ago our Marines safed humans in a secret mission from a building in Afghanistan i think .. And nobody on the hole world knew about it and they successfully safed the people how where capt hosted in that house. The people from the oposit side got killed by our dutch Marines.. Later the Dutch government release the real live video on internet taken by the marines there self whit cameras on there helmets. Thas how proud our ministerie of defense whas of this secret mission. I try to find this video and i will put down the link for you . so you can watch it Paul.. Greets jacco

compared to the usa the army of the netherlands is not much.

First WW neutral, second not.

This video about the dutch marine corps is not correct! The Netherlands was neutral in WWI, but occupied during WWII!

His comments about worldwar 2 are really way off ! Absolutely wrong informed I might say .

Check out the Dutch Commando's, the marines are everything you see, the commando's are the real shit xD

can you react to michiel de ruyter himself he was a brilliant man kzfaq.info/get/bejne/gN-nfq9ltMWlfHk.html

No woman made the training

Neutral in WO2????? You lost me there buddy. Completely wrong

First of we had about 5 days of war, than surrendered. (Not much of an army) Rotterdam was bombed, but by allied forces. It was an accident. (Big one, but yeah) Before someone says something here, the battle of does not equal the bombing of. Two different situations all together. Shamefully mixed here.