Royal Marine recruits are increasingly turning to Christianity – and are even using their assault course's water tank to perform baptisms, The Mail on Sunday can reveal.
Commando fledglings attempting to earn the coveted green beret are now regularly attending Sunday services at the training centre in Lympstone, Devon.
In the last 18 months church attendance at the base has risen rapidly and now often exceeds the on-site chapel's 150 capacity.
And at least 26 recruits underwent a full immersion baptised earlier this year in the training centre's Regain Tank – a 4ft deep tank with ropes suspended above which candidates have to traverse.
The increase in church attendance appears to be prompted by young men looking for meaning and direction rather than fears of deploying to a combat zone or a future war with Russia, recent studies by the Bible Society suggest.
