What's After Boot Camp? - Marine Combat Training (MCT), School of Infantry West, Camp Pendleton
- After you've turned in your sea bags
about working (mumbles).
You're gonna come back, you're gonna drag
the rest of your trashy gear.
You're gonna load up on that bus.
You will go to the back, you will fill up every single seat.
I do not care about you sitting by your friends,
do you understand?
- [Group] Yes, sir!
- Move.
(tense music)
These are the students coming from NCRD,
whether it be straight off of boot leave
or coming off of cruise assistance,
to get them processed up to SOI for training.
Once they go to training, they're either gonna
go to infantry training battalion
or Marine combat training battalion.
The first part of the process is down here at the USO.
I come down here on a weekly basis
whenever we have a pick up.
What we do is we distinguish the Marines
from MCT and ITB, 0300s go into ITB,
anyone else go into Marine Combat Training Battalion.
(tense music)
- So the marines are currently at supply
getting issued everything that they're gonna need
and required for the training of the 29 day training cycle.
It's very important that you receive it,
first off they're gonna be conducting
live fire raining so some of the PP is required
for live fire ranges aboard Camp Pendleton.
The rest of the gear's cold weather gear.
Currently we are in warm weather gear,
we receive a hydration system as well,
keep the marines hydrated throughout the physical training.
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- Currently the marines are conducting their land
navigation performance examination.
What they'll be doing today is they have their points
which are just grid points that you would find on a map.
From there they plotted their points,
they found ASMIS which is the data
that they're gonna be using in order
to put in their compass in order to go
from point A to point B.
As well as they have found their distance
from point A to point B.
To find those five points, they need to achieve
four to five in order to pass.
We buddy them up, they go out there,
they have a score card and they execute
that score card which has their grids,
has their ASMIS they've already found
as well as their map and they'll go out there
and they'll actually conduct the land
portion of their performance examination
where they test their skills to be able
to mitigate going through the terrain
as well as being able to find a point
that's out there on terrain that they're not
really familiar with.
- We build upon that foundation and further
their knowledge and skills towards technical field care.
We start off with a classroom environment,
from there we have practical application,
which goes into caring, doing really TFC, tourniquet drill
and a couple of other things to enhance their skill
from what they have and learned from boot camp.
It's important 'cause it's definitely gonna help them out
once they leave the country, getting deployed,
or going anywhere in the world.
It'll also help on the civilian side,
just in case they need it.
As far as comm in here in MCT,
it's their first time being introduced to comm.
We started off with the same thing
with classes, platform instruction.
They're gonna get about an hour and a half
to the classroom introducing them
to the radio system and then once that's finished,
we have practical applications.
It's about three hours.
They first get to touch with their comm gear,
after that they'll call up using a certain type of format
that they were taught in boot camp like salute report.
Then we introduce them to the POSREP, SITREP, SPOTREP
and all these report that's pertaining
and used in the fleet.
(soft music)
- We don't just kick right off into the 15 K
evaluated hike, we have to stepping stones.
You gotta crawl, walk, run.
So we prep them, teach them how to dress or pack,
how to pack their pack and we do the five K
so they understand how much that weight feels
on their back and they get used to it
and they get conditioned to that weight
and then we up it to the 10 K and then finishing
with that 15 K.
(solemn music)
- We came out here,
we're doing patrolling two practical application.
So then with patrolling two, we got IA drills,
contact left, right, front, rear.
Basically we send up hasty ambushes going over
across in danger areas.
They're individual actions within a patrol.
Doing like cycle of the infantry marine,
stuff like that, basically what we're doing
in patrolling two.
These guys can literally fill the billet
of any infantry marine any time,
so that's why every marine needs to know
his skills for patrolling.
He'll patrol in those environments.
- So now it's military operations in urban terrain.
It's us actually going out into different environments
like Iraq, Afghanistan, where there's heavily
populated with buildings and so on and so forth.
MOUNT is our ability to actually fight
in an urban environment and be able to go out there
and put our boot on the enemy's throat.
The training consists of them doing exterior movement
which is them actually moving from building to building
on the outside of the building,
being able to cover danger areas,
pass off those danger areas so that their buddy can pass.
Then it consists of them doing room clearing.
We do a two man room clearing
and that's them and their buddy
actually learning how to make injury into that building,
into that room, clear it out,
and identify any threats that are in that building.
(shouting)
(booming)
- It's extremely important, these marines,
they never know when they're gonna find themselves
in a combat situation where they're gonna be
issued M67 fragmentation grenade
and be expected to kill the enemy with it.
It's a big confidence booster, but it's the first time
marines will hold one, control it
and then pull it to destroy the target.
They'll receive a demonstration of the smoke gun,
our incendiary grenades,
followed by practical application which includes
proficiency of three M69 fragmentation grenades.
Once proficient is shown by the combat instructor,
they move on their way to the live fire range,
to throw an M67 fragmentation grenade.
Marines will view one through the tower, observe one,
and they'll move onto grenade issue.
At that point they will go into the pits
instructed by an instructor
and they will throw the M67 fragmentation grenade.
(explosion booming)
(soft music)
- The 10 K which is a little bit of course
further distance, now we're going over
a little bit harder terrain.
Navigating from SOI up here to Ranch 706
where they're gonna conduct their live fire
and then all that is in preparation conditioning them
for their route hike, their graduation requirement
for the 15 K hike back to SOI.
That's really here just to introduce these marines
to what the Marine Corps. gonna have them do
out in the fleet.
If they have to maneuver anywhere over long distance
carrying that load.
(guns firing)
- Range week starts off with a 10 K movement
out to the range.
We'll move the whole company out there.
Once we get to the range, and we actually start
conducting our training, the first thing that goes down
is the actual table shoots which they first conduct
table five and table six.
Table six is your comment marksmanship range day
from 25 meters and in.
Table six is the same range except it's at night,
so they're using their PBS-14 on their (mumbles)
and then their (mumbles) 15s.
(guns firing)
After your table five and six,
then the students conduct tables three and four
which is your unknown distance shoots.
Table three is the day shoot
and then table four is the night shoot
and they shoot on skill targets.
After that they go into shooting 203s,
and your 240s.
Before they actually do the live fire,
we conduct ISMIT line procedures.
It actually gives them hands on,
they understand how to actually do it
before they go into live fire.
They understand the weapons and how it's gonna feel,
it gets a little more realistic before they actually
do the realistic shoot.
After that, then they conduct the last range they do
is your LFAN your live firing and maneuver range
where they conduct buddy rushes
and consolidate on the enemy objective.
- [Man] Let's go.
Let's go.
(chattering)
- After that, that's pretty much all of range week,
all of the ranges and then the next day,
they conduct a 15 K evaluated foot march
back from the range,
back to (mumbles).
(shouting)
(ominous music)
(guns firing)
- [Man] Go, go, go, go, go, go!
(guns firing)
Halt, halt, halt, hey!
You, (mumbles), one on the left, one on the right.
Ready?
(guns firing)
- BSRE's basically a culminating event
where we just kind of put all of the things
that we trained them, such as patrolling,
defense, a little bit of TSE we throw in there,
radio communication, we just kind of throw
everything together that we trained them in
and put them all together and see how they actually do it.
This is the first time I've done actually seeing
the instructors acting as squad leaders as well.
Whereas in the past, all we did was train them
and teach them.
Now those instructors are actually acting
as squad leaders so they can actually see how it's done,
see how it is (mumbles).
Which I think is very important for the BSRE.
(shouting)
(ominous music)
Here during the BSRE, we actually expect them
to react to contact or react to an ID
or react to a casualty, we train them
to react a certain way throughout the three weeks
that leads up to this point.
Sometimes they react well, sometimes they don't,
but either way they learn from it
which I think is really important.
(guns firing)
The biggest challenge is just being out here
operating for 36 hours in a row.
They're not getting all the sleep that they need.
We tell 'em trial's continuous
where it's no longer just hey sit down
and eat chow with something.
We give them their marine,
hey whenever you have a chance eat.
You don't need to be reminded to eat
which I think is important, something as simple as that,
whenever you're actually out there in the field.
At least these actual marines are never exposed
to something like that.
They'll be like oh wait so we just eat whenever we want?
Just something as small as that is good exposure,
good training for them whenever they hit the fleet.
They're tired, they're gonna be hungry.
We're gonna be moving a lot.
They're gonna be continuously doing something.
Even if they're standing by, they're standing by
as a QRF which is quick reaction force.
They can be reacting to possible causalities or whatever.
When they're in the holes,
especially at night, we go ahead and go 50%
where we let one marine just provide security
and one marine go to bed.
It's good training for them to actually see how it's done.
We've talked about it for the past three weeks.
They've maybe done a little bit of research,
in boot camp they heard about it,
but now they're actually seeing it and doing it.
The instructor's actually showing them how it's done.
(triumphant music)
- They join the Marine Corps. and they became marines
^and when they got here, they learned what it actually meant
to be a marine.
Now they move from there, they see their families
on the parade day and they go into their MOS school
with the requisite knowledge they got.
My job is gonna be an engineer
but I'll always be called on to be a marine rifle.
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I think the battalion does
a very good job of preparing the marine
for that combat environment.
It really does that because of the battalion's
center of gravity, the combat instructor.
Combat instructor generally comes from
the Operating Forces.
He's done one or two combat deployments
and he has the requisite knowledge
of the combat skills, the common skills
from going to combat instructor school.
He takes those skills and he gets a 29 day period
of intense training for these kids,
so they can go forward and do great things
on the battlefield.
- It's vitally important, the MCT remains relevant.
That as doctrine emerges and changes,
as TTPs evolve throughout the Marine Corps.
We accumulate lessons learned
from not only the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan,
but also the special purpose MAGTF,
Black Sea Rotational Forces,
those missions that we find ourselves now
fighting across around the military operations.
That we have to ensure our younger marines
regardless of MOS maintain their proficiency
in combat skills, basic combat skills
and that when they find themselves
for deployed and in support of the ground combat element
that they're able to survive on the battle field
and contribute as a solid member of the MAGTF team.
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