Marine Corps Training

The Marines offers various training courses ranging from basic to advanced level throughout the service member career. Familiarizing yourself with these courses and discovering how to overcome adversity.
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Rappel Tower at MCRD
Overcoming The Rappel Tower at MCRD
For three months the recruits of Company C have overcome obstacles, swim...
U.S. Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test Requirements
The United States Marine Corps requires that all Marines perform a Physical...
Sports Medicine and Injury Prevention
Marines pride themselves on being the toughest of all military branches....
Physical Fitness Training PFT
It’s 7:30 a.m. and if someone is standing in one spot for even half a...
Assault Course
Recruit Scott Herma, Platoon 3247, trudges through one of the tunnels of...
Drilling Discipline in Recruits
Discipline is defined at Parris Island as the instant, willing obedience to...
Rifle Training – Then and Now
Once World War II came to a close, Marine Barracks, Parris Island was renamed...
MMA and Marine Martial Arts
Martial arts instructors participate in MMA Robert Abrantes is relaxed, calm...
Inspecting for Sharp Minds and Bodies
Thirteen weeks have passed for the young men of 1st Battalion, Company B first...
Conquering the Obstacle Course
Recruits from Company E kicked up clouds of dust as they ran in place, getting...
Basic Warrior Training
Painful – that was the one word used by recruits to describe their time...
Fear of Heights
With nearly three months of recruit training under their belts, the recruits of...
Who Makes a Marine a Rifleman
Sgt. Michael A. Hauck, the platoon sergeant for Wire Platoon, Communications...
USMC Family Day
Family Day, the day before recruit graduation, is a time allotted for recruits...
USMC Choking Techniques
Close combat instructor Sgt. Oliver Schiess gives Company M men a safety brief...
Transformation into Marines
It begins here Their stomachs twist and turn as the bus rolls to a halt in...
Square Away Time
Sergeant Kenneth Morgan, senior drill instructor, Platoon 3078, Lima Co., 3rd...
San Diego has Something Parris Island Doesn’t
Among the coastal hills at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., the Reaper...
Hand to Hand Combat with Pugil Sticks
Pvt. Joshua Dover, Platoon 1099, Company B, prepares for an upcoming bout, in...
Recruits Get a Taste of Gas
A group of recruits from Alpha Co., 1st RTBn., walk with their arms spread out...