Fleet Contingency Troop

Royal Marines with the Fleet Protection Group's Fleet Contingency Troop, equipped with respirators and Sig Sauer P226 9mm pistols fitted with torches, practise ship-boarding drills aboard HMS Monmouth. The Fleet Contingency Troop (FCT) are specialists in compliant and non-compliant boarding operations. In recent times, the FCT have carried out a number of counter-piracy operations in waters off Somalia.