Sit up straight and look at me now.
Aye Sir.
You have arrived at MCRD San Diego billet six-two-two receiving company.
You understand?
Yes Sir.
From now on, the only words that come out of your mouth will be "Yes Sir" "No Sir" "Aye
Aye Sir".
Do you understand?
Yes Sir.
Tens of thousands Marines have began their outstanding service on these very yellow footprints.
You will carry out that proud tradition.
Do you understand?
Yes Sir.
Scream it.
Aye Sir.
Louder!
You have just taken your first steps in becoming members of the world's finest fighting force.
The United States Marine Corps.
These recruits are entrusted to my care.
I will train them to the best of my ability.
I will develop them in to
Smartly disciplined
physically fit
basically trained Marines
thoroughly
indoctrinated in love of the Corps and country.
I will demand of them
and demonstrate by my own example
the highest standards
of personal conduct
morality and professional skill
Take charge of these men and make them Marines.
Aye, Aye Sir.
Group training, so this week we covered MCMAP. (Marine Corps Martial Arts Program)
And we also did bayonet assault course.
And we get the recruits ready to transition on to the second phase.
Ready, execute.
Here you go, pay attention.
Got it?
Yes Sir!
Execute.
Execute
So right now, we're doing a Combat Fitness Test.
It's two laps, you understand?
Yes sir.
Ready, go.
Measuring their strengths to see how they're performing on that.
Get up.
Run, run run run.
Crawl.
Crawl, crawl, crawl.
It's important for the recruits to experience because this their first time in recruit training,
this is the first time they're learning about the Marines.
And for us to throw this on them and have them train like this, it gets in their mindset
that it's not just about them anymore.
It's not me, I.
It's us.
It's about Marines.
Brotherhood.
We also have the Senior Drill Instructor inspection.
Basically we get to see their attention to detail as far as our uniforms, as far as our
cleanliness of weapons, and just the knowledge that we've bestowed in them since the moment
they picked up on us in Fox Company.
Every Marine is a rifleman, but also Marines are amphibious.
They have the 25-minute swim,
the four-minute float
the drop from the tower
to try to
overcome their fear of heights.
Also conditional PFT, to test their strength is fell over now.
Pull-ups, crunches, and a 3-mile run.
Get up.
Aye Sir.
Get up.
Aye Sir.
The recruits pack up everything in the house and move to Camp Pendleton.
Which leads into the second phase, which is targeting marksmanship.
So for Grass Week, we have the recruits for five days, and they get taught about the basic
fundamentals of marksmanship.
A lot of these guys have never even held a weapon or anything, so it's all the way from
how they handle that weapon in a safe manner to placing low-end shots in the center of
a target up to 500 yards.
So firing positions, so there's the prone, sitting, kneeling, and standing.
Then we teach them every variation, we find what variation works for them, and then we
take that, we practice it for that week so they can go down range and apply it.
This is an indoor simulated marksmanship training.
They use that to simulate shooting downrange, and it gives the recruits an idea of sort
of what to expect.
The recruits will end Grass Week with a five mile hike.
First Marine division.
First Marine division, aye Sir.
California.
This week is our table one relay for recruits.
(horn blaring) For the recruits this is their first time ever actually firing a live round.
They're taking everything that they did last week, learning how to aim, the proper shot
placement, proper stances, proper position holds, and they're actually applying that
to live rounds this week.
(rifle shots)
They fire all day long, multiple days before they actually qualify.
Every recruit will have a coach standing over them.
There's one to help them out and turn them into the marksmen that we need them to be
as Marines.
The goal of every Marine is to become a rifleman, proficient with the weapon, and that's what
were doing here.
Before they leave out of here, they will be a rifleman first and foremost.
So this week, Fox Company had field week.
Starting the week off, Table II shooting, which is that close quarter combat shooting.
They worked on all those drills that PMI took, those tactical reloads, speed reloads, controlled
pairs, two in the chest, facade drills.
They were put in that combat mindset and they went out there to accomplish the mission they
were assigned to do.
Downrange area is clear.
They advanced to the field for their Basic Warrior Training.
They went out there and did this Assault Course, where they practiced an all night drill with
flares in the air, combat guiding and how to properly overcome obstacles in a combat
territory, in a combat mindset.
Then they started to learn Land Navigation.
How to read a map, how to plot points on a map, and how to finds those points they plotted.
They worked on it during the day and at night.
Team week is the first week of the third phase.
It's a week where we start really transitioning and giving the recruits the responsibilities
of taking care of each other, doing the right thing when nobody's watching.
They go to different agencies and they just help out, breaking boxes down, cleaning up,
stocking shelves, whatever needs to get done around the depot.
Also, this week we have the interior guard showing the recruits the purpose of standing
duty in a more real-life situation.
Their drill sergeants also do scenarios.
For example, if somebody comes out of the area of operations and the recruits get charged
with a test like that.
The Series Commander's Inspection is an inspection done by a Series Commander, and what he's
looking for, basically, is for them to be able to articulate themselves, targeting with
confidence, demonstrating bearing.
It's preparation for Company Commander's Inspection and the Battalion Commander's Inspection.
This week Fox Company did the inventory PFT.
Measures the fitness of the recruits since they've been here in recruit training.
This is about their middle point.
Measure their pull-ups, crunches, their run times to see how much improvement they've
made in the bayonet assault course where they go through.
They can put their MCMAP techniques that they learned to the test in a real life scenario.
Final pugil sticks in the Thunderdome where they will be doing the final CFT.
The CFT is the Combat Fitness Test.
They measure their amount of times they are able to lift a 30 pound ammo can.
They do a obstacle course that consists of carrying ammo cans, zig-zagging through obstacles,
low crawling, high crawling, sprinting, and doing a fireman's carry.
They also do a 880 meter sprint around the track.
So this week we actually had our final drill.
This is a big day for the recruits.
This actually shows them a lot of pride and discipline.
A lot of things that the drill sergeants actually worked hard for to do.
And the final PFT, physical fitness test where recruits are evaluated on pull-ups,
crunches, and a run time.
Next thing that we're gonna be doing this week is the repel tower.
The repel tower for the recruits is the opportunity for them to get their last little bit of courage
out and show the drill sergeants that they actually wanna be United States Marines.
Go faster!
The chambers filled with CS gas are non-lethal tear gas and riot control agent.
to test recruits' knowledge on proper points for equipment used during biological and chemical
attacks.
The remainder of week 12 is spent undergoing the most defining moment of recruit training.
The Crucible.
The Crucible is the cumulating event of recruit training process.
It is a 54 hour field training exercise executed with only 3 meals and 4 hours of sleep per
night.
Designed to emphasis the importance of team work and overcoming adversity.
The Crucible
cumulates with the formal presentation of The Eagle, Globe, and Anchor.
and officially marks the transitions from recruit to
Marine.
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We are proud to claim the title of United States Marine.