The Marines

The Marines are different, they like to think they are the best, their culture is a warrior spirit, we consider ourselves warriors, we have an obligation to be the most prepared when the nation is least prepared and do the kinds of things our country would ask for. of their elite warriors, the

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are smaller than the other major military services, they are more combat oriented throughout history, sometimes killing is necessary, the

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run to the sound of guns, the marines understand that What they do is a brutal business, but they never do it. They lose their Humanity They are the oldest of all the armed services I mean ancient not primitive They are possibly the most functional of all the armed services They are a cult that works They are a gang that is legal to me It is the baddest fraternity on the planet that, uh , that you can belong to the Seer Fidel is always faithful.

The H Marines more than any Service Unit emphasize that notion of camaraderie, a kind of specialty and a special camaraderie with each other. There is a myth that the Marines are in Neanderthal I. I firmly believe that the Marines are idealists to the core and that they truly believe that they can help in some way to make the world a better place. They live in a world so difficult that they have to disguise their idealism. a shell just to survive, the professional warrior has a strong emphasis on a code of ethics, integrity, morality is an important factor, our core values ​​honor courage and commitment, that is the basis of that spirit, they came after me when We took that oath that we promised everyone in our country that for four years or a lifetime we would give them the best we had and we do it every day The Marines don't argue about whether we would have intervened or not, the mission is everything and a Marine doesn't No matter how many times you knock him down, he will get back up and that probably makes us as feared as any organization in the world.

We are the nation's first line of defense, but if you do something wrong to the country, come here, we are the last people you want. to see that well-earned reputation over the last 230 years arrive at your door. Funding for the Marines is provided by the Aliero Family Charitable Foundation, which holds the National Museum of the Marine Corps and the Marine Corps Heritage Center, and conversely contributions to its PBS. viewers station like you, thank you. I never started out as a Marine when I came aboard. I didn't really know what a marine was. I discovered I like this stuff and stayed for about 35 years.

I think it is important that The story will be told when I tell him to come out, he will come out quickly without getting hurt and he will get my yellow paw print. You understand? Yes, sir, come out, let my yellow Forint recruits arrive at the training ground in the same way. Like generations of Marines before them, let's go fast, fast, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go at night on a bus, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, let's go, faster, faster, let's go, the trip of a thousand miles begins when the instructor invites those recruits Get off the bus and puts them on the yellow Footprints and they symbolize that you live life as a new one and enter the United States Marine Corps.

Do you understand that yes sir? Do you understand that yes sir? In that first moment in boot camp, recruits literally enter the distinctive culture of the Marine Corps. These symbols and traditions and the values ​​they represent are what unites Marines and what sets them apart. Marines maintain that distinctive culture. it's a commitment to others um a sense that the organization comes before oneself a true minimization of the individual and highlighting the importance of the group's role and goals, they can't help but fall into a formation when they stand on the yellow Footprints and It is a kind of first symbol of becoming part of a team, you will be what you are telling me that you have your eyes fixed in front and your mouth and you close it when they step on those yellow Footprints and when that bus leaves our reception barracks it is a scary experience, they know they are in boot camp and are about to begin the toughest basic training in the Department of Defense, you have to remember that far from the Elite Warriors recruits their decision to join the Marine Corps is questioned, many are wondering if they will survive the first night of training camp, much less the next 12 weeks of training. all those little details that people take for granted are removed and it really has a big impact on them to stand back and put their toes at the bottom of my step say hello sir sir the main thing is that they realize that the world as it is As they knew it, it changes when someone asks you a question, you respond with yes sir or no sir, do you understand, yes sir?

I remember interviewing recruits about their thoughts about that night and it was usually, "My God, what have I done?" Stop at the edge where the Marine says stop the boot camp experience. Marina, it's a real shock and it's really out of the depths, get in the pool, come back and cover up, we want moms and dads to know that their son or daughter has arrived safely on Paris Island, no, when I I tell you to pick up the phone and I'm going to read out loud and cruel from line one to line five, you understand? Yes sir, we have a very short message that we prepare and then we put it next to the phones. the phone right now I am a maruka recruit I have arrived safely in Paris, please do not send me any food or bulky items This crew member I have arrived safely in Paris Island, please do not send me any food or bulky items by mail.

I will get back to you in 3 to 5 days my postcard with my new address the phone call will be short it may arrive late at night and may seem abrupt I will get back to you in a few days postcard with my new address by postcard with my new address thank you for your support goodbye for now that's all it won't be no I miss you I love you please save me none of that for I said stand there look over there Chi on your right say hello sir hello sir you stand right next to him stand behind him say hello sir hello sir but it's just part of that transition from civilian to recruit we bring them here and push them and prepare them for the train mate to go where they are going I spent 3 months for some Rec recruits.

It really was a shock. Come on, I joined the Marine Corps as a teenager in 1942. We got off that bus. We enter. My whole life changed. It was difficult. There were some sore muscles on the training ground. and uh, maybe a bruise or two, I saw my transformation and that of others, I told my man, we really strive to become Marines once he moves, you move to live up to the expectations of the Senior Marines, the ones who had preceded us. I am inducted into the Marine Corps on September 9, 1942. Oh, I believe it is indelible until the day you die, it is the most degrading day you will ever have in your life and I believe it is all part of that vast plan that no one of us he understood. reduce us all to nothing in that construction Marines, did he talk to you, did he talk to a loud person, yes sir, who are you talking to, don't look at me, look at your eye straight ahead, who are you talking to, my mom, sir? the mother of this recruit says it the mother of this recruit sir who is my father speaking to sir my father or the father of this recruit the father of this recruit who this recruit could not contact anyone call again on the phone who are you speaking to this recruit's father sir who is this recruit's father who is this recruit's mother sir it was a terrible day and that was over 60 years ago and I could almost tell you every move we made in a matter of less than 12 hours , everything they knew for 18 years or more, suddenly disappeared and were stripped away.

If we get these individuals off the street, we have to get their attention, we have to instill discipline in them, we have to get them to function as a team, that is part of that deep-rooted transformation that has to take place from a city and off the street into the training process the end result is a basically qualified Marine. I don't know how that plays out, but we seem to do it very well. The Marine Corps has two basic missions: training Marines and winning battles. Our job is to fight the nation's battles. It's as simple as we are warriors uh that's what we do the job of the Marines is to prepare your first to fight and ready to kill if necessary we take pride in the accomplishment of the mission uh we will collect move draw shape of fire on the field battle plants a flag, the Marine Corps is the smallest of the four services, it is designed to be the tip of the military spear that is deployed first and quickly the Marines run to the sound of weapons, which is contradictory in terms of survival instinct, um, when when you really experience it, but that's what Marines do.

The Marines adopt an aggressive warrior spirit that they feel sets them apart. I don't know if it's specifically set up that way or it just evolved. They definitely have an identity from us. They are marines and it is different and different being a marine is not just a job, it is not a profession, it is even more of a vocation, it is a state of mind, the Marine Corps trains more than 30,000 new recruits each year in two basic training facilities in California and South Carolina, Paris Island due to its history and association with the Marine Corps is often shrouded in much mystery, mystique, tradition and legend is one of the most remote parts of the coast this one, it's just a long Here the swamp is where the transformation begins.

Recruits are molded by the values ​​of the Marine Corps. They carry the culture of the Navy with them for the rest of their military career and for many the rest of their lives. Marine Bo Camp teaches very little in the way of genuine combat skills Marine boot camp is all about cultural immersion indoctrination and it does it very well. You come in, you're part of a team, sir, this is your family. Now they learn to take care of each other. They have to trust the boy next to them. on the left and the boy on your right, you rely on the recognition that you fight as a team, if you come together as a team and look out for each other, you will be successful.

I think that's the essence of what the Marines are about: creating that bond. and to say that that is the most important thing about being a marine is taking care of each other the Marine Corps is the youngest service among the United States military organizations 60% of marines are under 25 years old 16% are teenagers there are several reasons why a young person joins the core these days sees an organization that is Elite in their minds is looking for a challenge 1001 1002 and affiliates the Marine Corps with an organization that accepts the challenge I think the most important factor is the sense of serving your country I think these young people have within them an intense sense of patriotism, the idea that service beyond oneself is a worthy endeavor, you will be changed forever, look at the Navy recruiting commercials, a man being knighted in a church or a castle, a guy on a horse slaying a dragon a mountain climber you know reaching the cliff uh, I mean, they definitely highlight that image around the world we have a central message there is a select view We want kids to realize that there is something special about the Marine Corps.

Incredible transformation in which we focus on the image of the Marine Core being the elite warrior, the smart and tough elite warrior who is the epitome of virtue. military, um and then we show them that there is a process in the most grueling conditions in which they are forgiven and for The children and the parents or anyone who watches the commercial see a process over time, an individual goes through a series of challenges and then eventually transforms into this Marine. The sight is proud of the Marines and is an iconic sight or metaphor for boot camp. but the kids get it right now, we're at Leather Next Square, this is where the recruits come to get their Marine Corps martial arts training and they get to run through various obstacles.

The goal is to generate a level of confidence in the recruits that they themselves did not have. They don't know they had done it, they doubt and doubt, but once they get into it and have no choice but to do it, they are surprised by the Life slide, the water alone is intimidating for the recruits because no one wants to go in. getting wet and swimming but also heights play a big role as long as they trust their training and the technique they were taught they will have no problem doing it hey stop we just don't let them quit when they want to quit or think not they can go further, we let them know and show them that they can surpass those limits and reach the top with mission accomplished kick the left leg down don't kick the left leg down to get the momentum to reach the top of the training ground Rope Marine Corps training is longer and more demanding than basic training in other services.

The Marines have resisted a trend to water down basic training as a way to attract recruits and are sticking to an approach they feel hasoperated for decades. The Marine Corps has struggled to control the excesses and brutal training methods that are a legendary aspect of the boot game. In the mid-1970s, hundreds of instructors were punished for abusing recruits. Changes were made, including monitoring Di's training methods. Sir, sir, but most of the changes were subtle. enough not to diminish the fundamental toughness of Marine Corps training camp. Where are you going? There is a debate among Marines and some cling to the idea that the harsher practices of the past made better Marines.

The challenge for the Marine Corps is to find the balance between abusive methods and the need to train a disciplined elite fighting force to fight and die when ordered run hey let's go maybe ball body gun pfield turkey Pig I don't know how sounds good yes sir you're dead nowBlake keeps it simple, the Dr. instructors are the central figures here on Paris Island and the main influence on the lives of the recruits. There is an instructor with the recruits seven days a week, 24 hours a day. The instructors are true icons, they embody the best of our core, now you are not, they teach, they coach, they mentor, they take a KNE and they lead with a passion that is almost an obsession.

Our mission is to train these recruits. The only way to train them is to instruct them and in different ways. Aspects related to the Marine Corps and how to become a basic marine. Wow, you're going to get hurt, grab here, grab here, hit it, so without thorough instruction and remediation there would be no Marine, it would just be someone stressed out all the time not knowing. What's happening at boot camp is full of details about how to become a Marine, but above all it highlights for the recruits the warrior spirit of the Marine Corps. We start with every Marine is a rifleman.

I don't care if she's a Marine or a Marine. cook Baker Candlestick maker whatever everyone is a basic rifleman in the Marine Corps everyone must qualify with a service rifle because every marine is a rifleman the firing range is the most important training we give recruits while they are in the training ground this is an outdoor classroom we are teaching them the art of marksmanship our philosophy here is not to stress the recruits, you can achieve the same with your recruitment until the end, each of these recruits when they are here Downstairs they will have a lot of individual instruction given by the trainers reaching out all the way, we find that it produces a better result than if we hear that one on one there is time left to do Objective 27 left dog Objective, it is about teaching and getting that young person to do it. make.

Being able to operate the gun the way we want and also hit the target and that shows how much emphasis we put on marksmanship. Teaching at the shooting range also has a broader meaning. It sets a reinforced tone throughout boot camp that the Marines. transmit knowledge and that are connected to their history and to those who came before them, we teach them the history and traditions of the Marine Corps so that they understand what it is to be a Marine, they understand what it was to be a Marine a hundred ago years I do not believe that it can be taught didactically it does not happen on a blackboard it is culture again and the transmission of the values ​​of culture from one generation to the next they understand that they cannot allow those who left before to be disappointed they know that they will never be able to leave die that legacy that is why history is so important it is part of our thoughts it is part of who we are the official date of birth of the Marine Corps is November 10, 1775 when the Second Continental Congress authorized two battalions of Continental Marines as forces landing with the fleet The marines come from the sea, we have fought as a component of the Navy, since 1775 The marines were never large in number, a small nucleus of volunteers, adventurers, soldiers of the sea, if you will, they felt equally like at home in the As part of the fleet and serving in the army, the Marines distinguished themselves in a series of regional conflicts during their first 150 years, from the halls of Monuma to the shores of Tripol.

It was World War I that earned the Marines the reputation of being the first. To fight, they charged through the wheat fields and into the woods of a place called Bellow Woods in France in 1918 to thwart a major German offensive against the capital of France. Paris Bellow Wood was a huge turning point for the Marines. They lost more men on that first day than had total casualties in the 167 years that preceded it Bella Wood is one of three Touchstone battles in Marine Corps history the others being Eima in 1945 and Chosen Reservoir in Korea in 1950 iima probably dominates even the other two. 1945, the fourth year of the war, the Army Marines and Army Air Force were advancing steadily toward Japan.

There had been victory on all fronts, but the closer we got to Japan, the bloodier it was becoming. Eima was to be the largest and bloodiest of this It was a 36-day battle that cost 26,000 marines. Its symbol, of course, was raising the American flag on the top of Mount Cachi and all the Japanese soldiers on that island could see that flag raised on the fourth day of the battle and it was something like their death nail, it was coming , the photograph of the flag raised at iojima became more than a symbol of the bloodiest battle in Marine Corps history, that iconic image captured the spirit of the Marines, you see six soldiers, five of them are US Marines .

USA and one of them is a Navy Corman where working together fighting together raising this flag in a very strong wind on a very dangerous battlefield and displayed here was the icon of the entire War, teamwork and Victory, If you walk by the Marine Memorial it is a large statue carved in Arlington Cemetery you will see carved into the granite the names of so many battles dating back to the 1770's in the Revolutionary War there are some blank spaces there is room for other battles to come Good morning series 46 today is training day 43 Well, we have the actual obstacle course and a three mile individual effort race, so it all comes from within, doesn't it?

So dig deep and get something. It's exactly the same race, the same events, the same obstacles that you should want to have in the race of the month. do it because no one else will do it for you one aspect of boot camp that remains unchanged is how the marine corps trains single women among all branches of the US military the marine corps trains male and female recruits Separately the fourth battalion of our four training battalions here on Paris Island is the only battalion created by gender segregation within the Department of Defense. There is an ancient attraction that exists between boys and girls, men and women, that by keeping them separate we eliminate that almost there, Clark, you could do this, but when it comes to training, we are in the same line as our male counterparts, which It hasn't always been the case.

You spoke to a female Marine 20 years ago when we were still learning how to apply properly. our makeup, making sure everything matched correctly, making sure a woman could wear high heels and walk across the stage like a lady, so the strides we've made to be able to say our training is aligned with men's is a enormous success for the Brain Corps and for the Department of Defense in general, they have to meet the same graduation requirements; In other words, there is no difference in the Marine Corps between what a female recruit and a male recruit get here on Paris Island that make up the idea.

That we train while we fight is the next step in the training process, the young marines leave here and then they integrate and we are training together at that point, say what you've been working for every night if you can't get over this bar. About 6% of the Marine Corps are women and they serve in almost all military occupations, but Department of Defense regulations prohibit women from serving in direct combat roles. Increasingly, those distinctions are becoming blurred on the battlefield. I think that is the big debate. I think clearly everyone. is to see those blurred lines and I think we are quite integrated in those combat zones and that is the big debate, the big issue at hand right now, certainly there are certain elements of our Marine Corps today that allow technology to level the game.

In the field, you know, fixed-wing helicopters and the like, the Department of Defense policy at this time, of course, is that we will not allow women to be assigned to combat arms as a hypothetical in the future where we can take advantage of the technology and match the On the battlefield, that will give us the opportunity to capitalize on women in combat, but for many, both outside and especially within the Marine Corps, the question is whether women can achieve warrior status of their male counterparts. They are two different biologies. I don't think anyone. To argue that one of the big problems women have physically is that they cannot withstand the physical stress of carrying loads over rough terrain for long periods of time.

Are there women who can be competent warriors? I think there are relatively few that are great. groups of women who can be warriors no, it's never happened, I don't think it will happen again, play it now, say it, I think it starts when you ask a young recruit why they joined the Marine Corps, 90% of them. I will say that I joined to defend my country and if that doesn't mean that the warrior spirit is there for female recruits, I don't know what else we could say, it's as much a part of the female psyche as it is of the male psyche.

That's why they came together because the spirit of war is in everything we do on and off the battlefield. All recruits must meet a series of graduation requirements. Every recruit, man and woman, must also pass a final test before earning the title of Marine, come on, no. It doesn't have all day The Crucible is often defined as a climactic event on Paris Island. It occurs during the tenth week of training. It is a 54-hour training exercise that is made up of six main daytime events and two overnight events. The emphasis during The Crucible is teamwork, come on, you're going to be tested mentally, you're going to be tested physically, are you waiting there and then you're going to be tested in the sense of your commitment to each other to be able to succeed, run, hurry up, raise your knees and run.

No individual Marine can complete The Crucible alone. The only way to complete The Crucible is as a team. There was a girl. She screamed. The culmination of The Crucible is sunrise. Back at the barracks, most are exhausted, some struggling and needing help from their fellow recruits to make it through, but with the end of training camp both literally and figuratively in sight, these recruits push through the pain. They are not Marines yet, that title is awarded in There will be a series of ceremonies in the days to come, but on this day they know they passed the test.

You just spent 54 hours working together as a team, sir. He has done well. Make your family proud that graduation day. Sir, these recruits are coming. from all walks of life in America and their parents, their loved ones, their guardians entrust them to us to take care of them and make sure that they are being taken care of, they are very valuable to us, first of all, because there are not many like them in the civilian world who even have the courage to stand up and raise their right hand and take the oath, so once they come to us we know we have to train them, we know we have to train them hard and we have to train them.

Good and we will manage to convert them into Marines by any means necessary about 500 M north of Paris Island. A different group of Marines are trained at the training ground. Raw recruits become Marines. Here officer candidates have the opportunity to show they can. Leading Marines in Combat I decided on the military because I was looking for something more than being behind a desk at 21 years old. I studied Classics in college and so over and over again I read about Citizen Soldier Cincinnus, the guy who puts down the plow and picks it up. the sword and then, when the war is over, he returns to the plow.

I had this ideal in my head and the Marine Corps, from what I could see from the outside, had a warrior culture that the other services just didn't have you, go move. now hurry up the start of the officer candidate school is known as pick up day I've got it I've got it Let's go June 6, 1998 I could describe the weather what the sky looked like every detail let's hurry up let's go there you at that very particular moment The moment knowing that training has begun and life as they know it is practically over was the most disorienting thing I think I've ever done.my life.

It's not like the training camp experience in Paris with the yellow footprints on the ground. there in the dark now let him go but in his own way he is just as disoriented no, come on why is there so much garbage still in him? Pick it up now, I mean what you suddenly did in high school, college, family and work history none of that matters quick quick you know they shave your head and everyone is the same I was thinking what am I doing here why am I doing This Should Be Lifesaver This Summer Nothing compares to seeing a funny marine instructor in your face saying You, what they demand of you is someone who absolutely intimidates them and they don't know what to do about it, so they don't really know how to react to this.

Say something. Why do you have my Stu? Look. him, look at you, there's a damn problem here, do you understand H you're too good to help anyone, you're too good too, they were the most rabid group of high intensity people I'd ever met in my life up to that point, go well , because? You're still here? I got Sergeant Mo, hurry up, move now, move and that was it, it was on and it stayed on for the next 10 weeks. Hurry up, go, oh, way to go, candidate, way to throw away all your garbage, all my PR, hurry back, don't say something, I've got Sergeant, you're the last candidate, you're the last one the platoon will wait for you, You want Char for the trash, hurry up, trash, still behind you, I really guess they're starting to realize this.

It's real keep taking the top, come on, come on, and to become one of us you'll have to go through probably the hardest thing you've ever done in your life, that's your garbage, look, we're leaving, we're leaving. We are starting to put them in a period of friction and Chaos how they deal with failure how they deal with heartbreak 4 3 2 1 go OCS is not a training camp for officers OCS is a selection process here the Marine Corps evaluates and decides whether candidates Officers have what it takes to be a leader, whereas at Recruit Depot they're actually molding Marines, they're making Marines, our mission here is a little different, we, uh, look for the potential to lead Marines, eventually, Many of these guys and women will guide us and up the ante a little more for each Marine.

Those who come here must first prove that they can lead the Marines in a ground combat situation. Here we detect leadership, we see that they have a tendency to action, creative thinking, an aggressive personality that will allow them to take charge and they want to take charge. about a third of officer candidates do not pass the OCS, some for physical reasons received some push-ups, others received unsatisfactory evaluations and a third group that again distinguishes the OCS from the boot camp is those who are withdrawn on request at any time . After the fourth week of training, if a candidate determines that this is not a lifestyle they can deal with, that this is too much of a commitment for them, that they don't want the responsibility of what they are learning here, then they can simply quit. . just give up I OCS has an open door policy at any time you can quit and walk away and that ensures that in the end you have people, only people who really want to be there, if they leave when asked they are done, they are not. you get a second chance, there is no other option in the Marine Corps, quitting becomes endemic, you quit once you quit again and we cannot tolerate that with our Marines, if they are not ready for that full dedication then no They take place among us.

You have to concentrate on the task at hand and the consequences for making a mistake are very, very high, let's hurry up, he doesn't have a magazine, leave his magazine, go get a magazine, sir, yes, where is your magazine How could you fire the rest of the damn court? about that, hello sir, how about that, hurry up, this is serious business for us and a nation at war says they are faced with going to war leading marines and being responsible for 43 lives and frankly, that's a load that some of them were not prepared to take put their ammunition on your leg okay, is it safe? yeah, okay, let me know if it starts shaking, shaking, shake it, shaking, everything oh no, the leadership reaction course has become one of our most well-known leadership models.

Please provide us with a copy. It is a series of stalls that are set up with seemingly impossible obstacles. This morning the enemy tried to destroy the bridge with explosives. A part of the bridge structure is located in the river. You can see your squad leader and the stretcher. You will be given a tactical mission. To move anything meaningful, your fire team must deliver the supply container to the resistance group by moving ammunition across a blown-up bridge and the only thing that will be present are the bridge stakes. You found three boards that look strong enough to support your weight, all the red areas are full of explosives, we took all these elements, the stress and the chaos, and then we threw them in there with four of their companions who really have to lead, okay, we have to deliver the supplies and get them to the other side, all we want to see is if the candidate can lead his teammates.

Red is dead. We know anyone has any suggestions right now. We can use the P. We have that line. We can spank her or we can use her. If not, can you get out there and with some stress, some chaos, some friction coming your way? You know what he's made of, is there something in there that will make him lead? And ultimately that's what we're looking for, that leadership potential within him. but whether you complete the course or not is not really the assessment. I'm going to tie this and I'm going to throw you the rope and you can pull it up, it's the behavior, the way he motivates his team the way he makes the team move, that's not enough reason to use to Crum as a shooter to slide this to the other side these pipes pipes if we could magically pass the pipes still, for example, if you drop something and you no longer have it oh, wait or adjust the plan?

It's a very good way in about 10 minutes to get an assessment of the fog friction and they can make a decision in an area that I'm not familiar with track, with me, track, do it, do it, time, time. it's done when your initial plan didn't work, you freeze, you stop, you get people, kid, yeah, okay, there will be an evaluation sheet for the evaluator and he will rate you on all these leadership traits and you will get a final score. and of course this enters into his leadership evaluation. Look, your team brought him back and he kept moving.

That's the only good thing I see that you did and you showed that you were a team player. Training in OCS is mainly done in sports shoes and physical training equipment, sweatshirts or shorts, but as we move towards the fifth or sixth week, the physical training also evolves into more combat-related skills, we put them in more and more trails so they can carry more. of his equipment to include his rifle and light marching packs approaching approaching we're hurrying I swear God invented uh quano to train Navy officers with the humidity the heat and the hills quickly quickly quickly quickly quickly among all the miseries of quo One stands out in the memories of Officer candidates, be down here, the quigly is a component of a timed physical training exercise that all candidates must endure and conquer, the quigly is a muddy trench, no, what are you waiting for? , you crawl in this muddy water up to your neck. uh, on your hands and knees, your damn power, not on that, on your body, you sink and end up with your mouth full of mud like peanut butter, go, Qui and you can't see, come out, keep your head down, see P. the essence of this, like all training, is to teach people to think under pressure, think when they feel uncomfortable and not panic. they must control their emotions the mus right there prepare prepare get up go to bed go we have put them in situations that are totally unknown and have a tendency to cause phobia Come on son head down head down gun in the body putting them through that sewer where they submerge under the water with a large amount of equipment in an area they believe is confined to darkness, it is something they will never forget, for some the quigly is just another test they must pass in OCS, come back for others, it is the obstacle that could put an end to his quest to become a Navy officer.

We candidates are constantly monitored and next time you return home, don't you understand half of your academic and physical requirements? Evaluation leadership makes up the other half. C self control In the particular case of one candidate, I wanted him to know that this is a team effort that he and I were going to achieve, that he could do this, we stayed together and I told him we are going to finish this together and he did that P for some of them that's what they needed I'll also tell you if he had given up if he gave up he started walking he's finished, let's go they don't want to pass me son I doubted if I would even make it that way was The only thing, the first thing I I did in my life was that I thought the effort might not matter.

You know, I can give 110% here and I still won't make it. Why are you wasting your time? Son, I would never do it. I had done something like this before. This was an environment where hard work was not enough, so every day I had doubts about whether I would be there when the sun rose the next morning. Going through OCS is just the first step to becoming a Navy officer. Candidates then attend TBS, the basic school, for 6 months, where they learn the nuances and details of being an officer, then attend a specialized school such as artillery, communications, aviation or infantry.

OCS is actually the absolute basis for the continuity of education that naval officers receive. responsible for in your career three things we tell you know yourself know your job know your people and all that constitutes that warrior spirit it starts here they learn it here at OCS it is integrated into TBS then it is validated by the young marang Elite my job is select and evaluate potential candidates to be officers in the Marine Corps. I made a promise to every Marine I have served in over 33 years that no one will ever come across that grindstone upon graduation and that I wouldn't want to lead my son or daughter like that.

As simple as that, if I wouldn't trust them my own son, I will not trust you with yours. The leadership framework taught in the Marine Corps is based on the belief that Marines have a unique culture, a warrior spirit that sets them apart. The Marines are deeply connected to their traditions and history. Near Quanico Base Virginia, the Marines have built the National Museum of the Marine Corps as a lasting monument to their sacrifices. It will be the Mecca of Kors, the place where everyone will understand that every Marine who has gone before is theirs. In Marine families, 70% of the people who come to the National Museum clearly will not be Marines, most will not even have served in one way or another as instructors, they will be able to discover a little more about what it is like to be a Marine , they will be able to travel through the history of the nation and see it as the Marines saw it throughout that history.

There is no group as excited about their own history as the Marines who are proud of where they are. We come proud of their culture, so you will walk, run, crawl alongside Marines in many different places to make you feel like you are there with a Marine. It is a fully interactive museum that fully immerses the visitor in the experience of important campaigns and history is just another step in preserving that legacy. I think it's part of indoctrinating people into the culture. Culture is about respect. We really remember the Marines in the battles of World War I and we remember the island hopping campaign in the Pacific.

We remember the urban struggles and the fights in the jungle of Vietnam, we remember the Gulf War and you merge with that current of History, you merge with that current and you know that they will not forget you, not only that they will not leave you behind physically, but the exploits of your marines will live on in the history of the core. It is important, calming and comforting. I think for the marines who are in danger. In 1999, the Marine Corps integrated a new competitive opponent into its training for all officers. and enlisted personnel don't get used to this right here, if you do this, the Marine Corps martial arts program is designed to improve individual war fighting skills and train all Marines to be one-on-one warriors .

The idea of ​​mcmap can be traced back to the end of the Vietnam War and a concern that the Marines had moved away from. Individual combat skills and training. Come back, sir, come back, drop it, drop it, we teach the full spectrum of violence, anything could be a weapon of opportunity on a battlefield. be a helmet if you are going to go into battle with this with this ability it will usually be to kill someone take my other hand here and strangle him withjust throwing very hard, the physical disciplines within martial arts are different than what most people perceive of civilian martial arts C, much of the perception is what they see in modern media movies and television , most of it is myth and special effects.

Mcmap combines the most effective martial arts techniques from around the world in one program. Some of the training techniques were developed at the International Society of Hoplology, a group that studies why and how different cultures engage in combat. We are establishing a training program that teaches them to use the weapons they have on hand and a very simple set of patterns primary empathy is combative behavior Behavior well can you function in a lethal environment? stress is part and parcel of that that is why the risk of Isel live blades has to be involved in training it has to be as close to reality on the battlefield as possible It is possible that if you have faced it in a train situation, you are better prepared to deal with it on the battlefield.

What we are looking for is if you can stay calm, collected, professional, do your job, which in this case is closing with dominance or killing the enemy while under tremendous pressure training in technique is not as important as training in behavior the ability to approaching someone who is trying to stick a sharp object into your body is a behavioral thing much more than a technical thing, he starts to retreat, gives up and retreats and dealing with people in combat, you're mainly talking about nervous systems, you can change technology all you want, the human nervous system remains the same, it will continue to react in the same way. the high stress levels of lethal combat to deal with the stress of the battlefield, the Marine Corps tempers the physical demands of martial arts training with character-building lessons.

You want every person you train to be as good as you. I think it's the heart. and the soul of our spirit, good work, good finish, contact with our program, I think it is different from any other because we have three disciplines, hands, hands, we have the physical discipline, which is probably the sexiest. Boys love to go out and punch and fight. and things like that that's why we joined the Marine Corps, stay down, there are 182 techniques in five different belt levels, turn around, give him your money, don't shoot, we also have the mental piece that studies the other cultures that are warriors, the Spartans and the Zulus. the apaches and all the other cultures that have a warrior mentality and then the part that I think I enjoy the most about this show is the character piece, it's about teaching the marines the difference between right and wrong about doing the right thing for the Marines 24/7.

The Corps has been making a concerted effort to develop character Target Target even to the point of training hand-to-hand combat skills, they don't separate those two things Integrity is part of hand-to-hand combat skills Right Target Right Target sh sh is a aspect of warrior culture part of your identity as a warrior is being a man of integrity man of Ethics the Spartans had a saying that the purpose of drills and exercises is not so much to strengthen the back as to toughen the mind physical training and Tough discipline allows them to be tougher mentally and allows them to have that confidence to go hand in hand.

The Marine Warrior spirit has been around since the beginning and becomes even stronger because we trust in our history and the actions taken by Marines in the past to have an influence on what we do in the future. Martial arts is not something that is new, it has been around for years, the first real martial artist in the Marine Corps was the Raiders of World War III. There are a lot of similarities between what the Raiders did and what we are doing today. The connection to the past is never far from The mcmap martial arts program is based in Raider Hall, home to a collection of Raider Marine memorabilia.

We are very proud that they named this Raider Hall. We are very proud and very honored by the fact that the Marine Corps still feels that "We have a place" The Marine Raiders were formed in early 1942 at a time when the United States was on the defensive in the Pacific War. They were the country's first gorilla warfare troops and are often referred to as America's first Special Forces. They were the first to do amphibious operations from rubber boats launched from submarines launching from landing destroyers. in unexpected places for the enemy by the Japanese during World War II we were made very aware that the Raiders were a special group, we were arrogant As it might be now to bury your first Dead, it takes care of the arrogance, but we were still so confident as anyone could be that the Raiders' job was to take the fight to the Japanese in the Pacific to advance as the Marines have done throughout their history towards the sound of the guns was the first movement back to push them back by the chain of islands they had taken.

It was really the first step on the road to Tokyo. The Raiders entered Tagi and fought in the Guano Channel. One of the big fights in The Marinko Story was Raiders Ridge Edson's Ridge in September of '42 gets a full brigade of who were pretty good jungle fighters. It was an incredible fight that lasted two nights that the Raiders endured and that is why they were legendary in 1944, the tide in the Pacific War. had become and the Marine Raiders were no longer needed, they rejoined the regular units, ending a brief but glorious chapter in the history of the Marine Corps, we realized, even though we were 17 and 18 years old, that if this were not so, the world was going to be a It was a very, very different place, really to preserve our way of life and that sounds a little cheesy, but it sure wasn't.

We thought that any day we lived in the rest of our lives was a bonus because anyone who came in and out of the Raiders and really was a lucky man. The legacy of the Raiders is indelible in the Marine Corps. It goes back to that warrior spirit and the culture of the Marine Corps. We always take care of our own, we never leave anyone behind, the Raiders came before us, so did we. We're not going to leave them behind and their memory will definitely live on much longer than they do hey, get off the damn grid, you're a six LT Comm 16, hey, order, pick up your damn radio, come on, this is our training center here. so that the units come to give more before they deploy to Iraq, stay in place and to immerse them in what they are going to fight against there, we try to make it realistic for them here before they go that way. try it they can learn from their mistakes here the Marine Corps Combat Center occupies nearly a thousand acres in the Mojave Desert, making it the largest Marine Corps base in the world each year, about a third of all Marines come here to receive training to increase their combat readiness hey, why are you walking?

This is where Marines participate in live-fire combined arms training. How do you think your reach was today? You need to do? You need to look down to see where your rounds are impacting correctly, the purpose is to get the Infantry guys used to activating their shots and moving under those fires with the fires down range a couple of times a day. It wasn't happening. If you look down, you see trenches one and two. the two objectives on the western side and to the east obtained what we called the central objective OB and got the company to maneuver down.

I machine guns. They got 81mm engines. They obtained heavy weapons to support their attack. as their last stop before deploying, they come here and get trained even if you have no ammo left, fool the enemy, make them think you have ammo left, this is money here for the Marine Corps. The cover is actually putting into play a lot of the things that are happening in Iraq right now and it's really good training that will help all the Marines and bring more of them back, that's all. I have for you, gentlemen, thank you very much. Marines also receive training at 29 Palms in Urban Warfare.

This is rank 200, also known as W Al Sahara. The Marine Corps has spawned in a rocky village in the California desert. We try to put as much realism as we can. If you can get in you will see burned out vehicles, Constantine wire, debris everywhere, arriving in a training unit at 29 Palms, will probably deploy to combat in months or even weeks, a training unit here is usually a mix of marines in his first fight. mission and combat veterans, I mean, you can tell them all the stories, but just being there will be a totally different experience and something that you would have to experience for yourself to know what it's like, okay, we give you two things that we have.

We've just had a lot of Mar numbers arrive, so I want to make sure they get the best training possible before they return. Let's not give them the chance. J. Let's make the training realistic. Role players are used in the exercise. play with friendly villagers, others play with insurgents, it's not a normal war we're fighting, you don't know who the enemy is and you don't want to stereotype people just because of who they are, so it makes it a lot harder. What you have to do? You destroyed the entire country. Now you are destroying my house.

Let them know that our chain of command will pay for anything that breaks in this house. Many situations arise in which you will not be able to participate. uh and you don't want to get involved because we don't want to harm innocent people and what we're focusing on here are the skills that Marines need to be effective on the urban battlefield. Urban combat is not new to the Marines. In my opinion, urban warfare of the corps is the dirtiest of all wars. I was a company commander as an example in battle. Ted's town of 1968 during the Vietnam War is dirty because everything is very up close and personal, it's not just the environment that is closed off with a lot of noise dirt debris shrapnel Etc but it's also very close personal contact with the Enemy and then the Carnage that is there The Urban War is difficult it is a Grizzly business I think especially of the two battles of Fuia in 2004 uh, the first Fua was a The tough fight of the second fuah in November 2004 was probably the toughest combat that the American forces have seen since the Vietnam War, almost certainly the toughest combat since things like Way City in the Vietnam War, it was really ugly, it was brutal, it was unpleasant, it was the essence of war greed.

Battle is being emptied instead of being a restricted battlefield with a large number of troops within it, which is the essence of mass infantry warfare. We now have a battlefield scattered across third world deserts, slums and jungles where there are very few combatants. inside and there's a small number of men chasing another small number of men we no longer have an enemy that wears uniforms we don't have an enemy that has a state capital we don't even have an enemy that has a state that does It's very difficult to determine who it is the enemy. Sometimes stop here and now.

The young Marines have to deal with insurgents who are essentially waging a war without any rules and that young Marine has to deal with an insurgent on the street at the same time. time he's going to have to deal with someone's grandma across the street, do you want someone to watch this? Yes, it is much more demanding. I would say that on the battlefield today it takes a much more intelligent and sophisticated individual to be successful on the field. battlefield today we must leave the Marine Corps pushes the Battlefield Authority to the lower levels more than other services the Marine Corps puts a lot of importance on decentralized decision making almost half of all Marines are in the three ranks lower I think we've always done it in the Marine Corps, we call it Strategic Corporal, um, you have to take leadership to the lowest level, address leadership, we teach them leadership, we show them leadership, we show them what it's like to be a leader and then you actually give them some guidance and Let them loose um and it works for the US Marines today even at L cor Corporal level they are making decisions that affect the nation when they are out there gardening on the street in Baghdad or delivering supplies for humanitarian aid in the Philippines, your actions will have a huge impact on the way the United States is perceived around the world.

The Marine Corps has a generally positive image and reputation both in this country and around the world. The Marines like one of their own generals' description that there is no better friend and no worse enemy. than a United States Marine, but at times the image has often been tarnisheddue to the tradition and aggressive tactics of the Marines. The Marines bring their own warrior spirit of uncompromising toughness to the battlefield, often resulting in brutal confrontations and harsh results. You are asking people for a level of perfection within a storm of confusion that has to be experienced to believe that the Marines do a great job but they need to be better at it, even 99% is not good enough.

The Marine Corps says you know you have an ideal, there is a code and a level of potential that all Marines should strive for, by far most of them fall short of the ideal, but they come closer to their potential. Cal, I think what most people would give them credit for is that order is about monopolizing the use of force. you cannot have freedom, democracy, etc. until someone monopolizes the use of force and takes a region out of anarchy and for that you will need people like the United States Marines, who have a very strong moral sensitivity when using force.

It all largely comes down to training and the more you train and the more you see it as a professional army that is not simply about killing the enemy through Vengeance, the better you will be at having an organized troop that is responsible and carries out the mission with just conduct, so you have to have discipline, you have to have a young Marine who understands right and wrong, who understands that killing is not natural, the fact that we have a code of conduct, a Western ethic that says, frankly , do not kill. nothing that doesn't need killing.

The Marines understand that what they do is a brutal business, but they never lose their Humanity. Many extraordinary circumstances are presented to them and they are adapting. World War II was the Greatest Generation, but they were ordinary men. and extraordinary times they rose to meet the challenge and that is what the Young Marines face today, they are going through extraordinary times and the best of them are coming out and reaching the top, they are making those decisions and many of them are making the right decision at the right time yes sir before it gets physical everything has to be mental right yes sir one of the things they teach you in training camp is to do the right thing even when no one is looking yes sir and It's a Cas's very good mentality has very good training and that tells the corporal on the street corner, even if you think you might be abusive, even if you think no one is watching you, don't do the right thing, we start by really focusing on our traditions and that is a tradition of success and that is based on a tradition that goes back to the founding of this nation and that actually gives you some strength on the battlefield, you don't want to embarrass the institution. and you certainly don't want to disappoint your fellow marines, stick with Marines, it's a very close-knit relationship you have on the battlefield and your life may depend on the guy standing to your left and right and it's very important. that you have that bond with them and that allows us to be very successful in very, very difficult situations.

I don't think any medium can truly capture the impact on the experience of close combat warfare where you can see yourself and the enemy. You can see where your bullets hit the enemy and you can see your men fall on either side of you. I don't think you can smell or convey the smells, the sickening, sweet smell of decaying flesh of someone who is buried under a pile of rubble or a bomb crater. I don't think you can deal with or convey the misery of the people trapped in this. disaster war is unpleasant watching young men and women fly is unpleasant if we never had to go to war boy wouldn't that be wonderful?

Wouldn't we have served our purpose as warriors-in-waiting but we didn't have to go? But the fact is, that's not the way the world is. Anyone who has been on the battlefield does not want to go to war. oh no it's not at all glamorous uh it's very dangerous uh it's very difficult it's very dirty it's not a good place to be there was absolutely no glamor of any kind in the combat none no I can't see anything glamorous or anything that would make anyone want to get him into it Combat is hell on Earth, we never train our people to enjoy combat or make it glamorous, so a lot of basic Marine training doesn't necessarily work well in the public eye because people don't really like it.

We know what the Marine training course is to do what the Marine Corps' job is, we teach them to quickly locate clothing and destroy the enemy. The Marine generals are the only generals who actually talk about killing, they will say this organization is about killing, that's what we Here's the dilemma: a liberal society still needs to be defended and it needs to be defended violently and the people who They are going to do this, they must like what they do or else they won't be very good at it, that's not the case. It's really going to matter if they hire you, they may morally and abstractly not like killing, but the training and practice itself is not something they can fear.

The fact is that throughout history, sometimes killing is necessary, it is not a good or bad thing, there are situations where something difficult must be done. I think one of the problems with the military organization is that it tends to follow the social whims of the society around it. Killing is bad, it is not natural to kill, you shouldn't. kill and then you say, well, be a marine, kill someone and then come back, it's bad to kill and often when people see the unvarnished truth, they don't like it. I ran into this all the time when I got out of the Marines and people would ask me about my experience, they didn't really want to know what we did.

In some ways, Marines on the battlefield have more in common with their enemy than with their family and friends at home, there's a sense that letting your armor down is an admission of weakness, so the culture It is also a culture of enormous toughness, we can do things better and we have a kind of, if not invincibility, a kind of durability and resilience, that killing comes at a cost to the person who bears it. It is noticeable that combat changes people, I think that combat diminishes the soul, permanently, it alters people, the sacrifices that the Marines make are not only physical, they are also mental and spiritual, and they are carried out for the rest In life, I think anyone who served in the military overseas and combat comes back with something they'd rather not talk about.

I will never forget a World War II Terot veteran who told me that he was proud to have served his country, but he was not proud of what he did. had to do to serve their country, I personally believe that Marines, more than anyone else in society, absolutely hate war, we hate combat, no one likes it and thank God some of us survived it over the centuries. two and thirty of the history of the Marine Corps. More than 40,000 Marines have been killed in combat and more than 200,000 have been wounded. He was in Fuji Iraq. He was in a lav, which is a light armored vehicle, and the ID went off and I got hurt.

It was during the battle on a path that I can never forget. I turned around and looked and, uh, this NBA soldier came out from behind and fired an RPG. I got hurt just south of Fuia in AL Ambar province. I was hit by a rocket grenade or they would just know I was alone. on an operation, uh, that was the only time I left my base and I got hurt by an IID in Kaba on the last day of the last mission house, it's kind of random, everything happens by chance, you only meet some people.

I'm lucky, some people didn't hit the gun I was shooting, so he took both my hands off and severely damaged my left leg. I had second and third degree burns on my face. I had third degree burns on my hands. required Gras skin and I lost a finger um I had broken my leg I had torn all my arteries and tendons in my right leg um I suffer from nerve damage now um my hands are constantly sweating from the burns for some Marines the transition back to duty o Incorporation into civilian life is aided by a stay at the Wounded Warrior Barracks in Camp Leun, North Carolina.

The barracks was the idea of ​​a wounded colonel who saw a need for a place for wounded Marines to heal physically and mentally, precisely the camaraderie we have here. fact that we're all Marines but we're also wounded Marines and, you know, we all know to some degree what the other person is going through. We have 36 Marines living in the barracks right away, they are with the wounded Marines. you know, a guy comes in, I got burned, I can say, hey, I got burned too, you know, in a couple of years, this is what your skin looks like, grass, or the guy has an eye injury, this guy too has one, it's just the camaraderie we all have.

We are all there, we all know what we are going through, it is great in my time, when I was at the Naval Hospital in Philadelphia, there are over 550 amputees in the wards with no hope, today our young men and women who are injured have hope to have support first and foremost and they have hope from modern medicine that is doing incredible things with these catastrophic wounds of theirs for wounded Marines, there is always the question of what is next for some, surprisingly the answer is the Marine Corps. He was determined to remain a Marine. There have been Marines in past conflicts who suffered amputations and returned to active duty and even returned to theater.

Now, by retaining wounded Marines as active duty Marines, we can transfer our knowledge and experiences and help build a better, stronger Marine Corps before going to Iraq Sergeant Wright was qualified as a military instructor martial arts After his recovery he was assigned to the Marine Corps martial arts program as an instructor. Now we begin as the combat pattern Sergeant Eddie Wright really typifies a Marine that he has and who can do Spirit, has never given up and remains a martial arts instructor. He's never complained since I've known him, you know, poor me, look what happened. He was out on a mission.

Something happened. It's time to move on and continue with what I'm going to do. The next technique I'm going to show you is the arm drag down to see him stand in front of other Marines and talk about what he did. and he has no anger or meanness about anything, he digs with your fingers or in my case my hook, that's something special about an individual who doesn't hold a grudge or who isn't upset and still puts his left foot forward in being a Marine first and we see that throughout the Marine Corps and I guess that's why Marines can die for each other and will fight for each other because when you have guys like that that are so motivating to be around, they just inspire everyone you meet. surround, he is a true warrior a true marine I don't regret joining the Marine Corps in the slightest.

I would do it again. Many doors have opened for me since joining the Marine Corps, even after my injuries and as a person where I am. Right now I probably could never have the level of satisfaction with the challenges I've faced and the challenges I've overcome if I were in the civilian world. I have immense pride in being a Marine, everything I was a treasure these years. what I've been through as a Marine after spending 12 months teaching martial arts Sergeant James Eddie Wright resigned from the Marine Corps to return to Texas and build a life after today's Marine Cory Marine Corps Emblem Ceremony officially recognizes the transformation of your recruit into a United States Marine, they have been here almost the full 12 weeks to achieve, graduate, recruit training, we have all the family members coming in, we have the recruits in training , it is very symbolic, today you stand before you fully prepared to receive the coveted emblem of the Marine Corps the eagle shines and anchors the globe of the eagle and the anchor is the prized emblem of our core is presented to each recruit ruit the day before Graduation by your drill instructor is the moment in time when you go from recruit to United States Marine, one of the things taught at Paris Island is absolute trust in others, teamwork, you have to trust each other and know that, no matter what happens, even if you pay the ultimate sacrifice. and you die so you are never left behind we fight for our brothers we fight for the core we fight for our squad members in platoon take care of your friends and you better hope your friend takes care of you and he always will that's how the marines are the Individual Marines, the individual warriors on the fire team and at the squad level, have always been the heroes, have always been the ones who locate and close in on our country's enemies, that is no different today than when it was 230 years ago. that the Marine Corps is based on American citizenship and today there is a tendency to put the military on a shelf and say it's not us, it's them, it's those people over there.

I would like thatPeople would realize that when they look at images of a squad of Marines walking down a street in Fuji or a body bag coming out of a helicopter that could be their son, their neighbor could be the kid on the street, come on, come on, let's go. The kids next door who have joined the military have a calling, we believe that service to the nation is the highest calling a person can have. Yes, sir, we promise nothing to any individual who enters the Marine Corps, except that perhaps, if he is good enough, he can become a Marine.

You can join this long line of Warriors and heroes that the Marine Corp has had the seer spirit Fidelis is something that lives in the heart of a man the Brotherhood never goes away the camaraderie all of that is real and in our homogenized life of the 21st century I it is easy to forget what continues to inspire me is that the marines believe in something greater than themselves, yes, that is our sacrifice, but a voluntary sacrifice, that is something that not everyone understands, it is a difficult time, some difficulties, but you do it with your heart and you have to be.

It is selfish to follow the path of harm and leave your loved ones behind. It's hard to sum it all up. The most important thing is the sense of pride, the sense of belonging. The Marine Corps is a band of brothers. There is no one else in the world who knows what it feels like. I'd like to be a Marine other than a Marine, it's a sense of belonging, honor, courage, commit me, our corporate values ​​sum it all up. Stay tuned for more information on Marines, but first to order Marines on DVD with bonus features, call PBS Home Video at 1800 Play.

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