Navy
Royal Marines Consider Controversial Mixed Barracks
A Royal Navy Spokesperson has told Forces News that men and women in training for the Royal Marines could share rooms.
Following the lifting of the ban on women serving in front line roles the Marines will be able to recruit women although they will not be on a course before January 2019.
The Daily Mail reported a paper by the First Sea Lord, Admiral Sir Philip Jones as saying:
"Work is under way to gain agreement for women to be accommodated in the same rooms as men whilst at CTCRM (Commando Training Centre Royal Marines), allowing them to maintain team cohesion and ensure equality of opportunity."
Following newspaper headlines over the issue a Navy spokesperson said:
“We continue to consider the policy to determine whether women could be accommodated in the same rooms as men, which includes ways of segregating areas to maintain privacy. No decision has yet been made.”
Current services policy does not allow females to share rooms with males.
The Navy paper is reported as suggesting women will share rooms with men while training at Lympstone in Devon.
Recruits currently spend four weeks in a 65-bed dormitory. After that they are assigned to small eight-person rooms.
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