Marine Boot Camp
Marine boot camps are training camps for would-be marines. They are conducted at Parris Island, South Carolina, or in San Diego, California. The courses in a marine boot camp are designed for training recruits in physical fitness, discipline, management skills, technical knowledge, and general aptitude for marine life.
The basic training program is a 13-week course, which is followed by infantry training. This infantry training is conducted at Camp Geiger, North Carolina, for Parris Island trainees and Camp Pendleton, California, for San Diego trainees. All marines must pass through one or the other.
Marine boot camp training is considered by many to be as physically demanding as it is mentally. Recruits are taught the basic moral values of the marines: Honour, Courage, and Commitment. Recruits are not allowed to communicate with their family and friends, since cutting them off helps them to be trained and moulded within the confines of the boot camp.
It is a strenuous process, which culminates in the transformation of a raw recruit into a hardened marine ready to serve his or her country.
Recruit Receiving is the first step at a marine camp for new recruits. Recruits are instructed in their life at the camp, given gear, toiletries, and a haircut. Recruits will then pass through a barrage of medical tests, including a large amount of working out to predetermine their physical capabilities.
Following this, recruits meet their instructors and marching, discipline, and drills are taught at this point. This is followed by a time of intense physical training. During this time marine recruits are still grilled on the mental aspects on honour, courage, and loyalty.
The basic appeal of the marine boot camp is the Confidence Course, which is an 11-station obstacle course in water. Recruits have to score at least a Combat Water Survival score of four in order to progress beyond this stage. Basic Warrior Training follows, which includes the gas chamber test. This is all a set up for "The Crucible."
This is a period when recruits are deprived of sleep and food and are made to march for as many as 40 miles, encountering multiple obstacles along the way as they are expected not only to survive, but to help others along who are lagging, all the while being mentally grilled and challenged by the instructors.
After a final physical test and conclusive training, recruits are graduated to marines. They know they have earned this honour at this point, and family and friends are invited to a ceremony at the Shepard Field Parade Deck as the fresh marines are awarded their posts in the US Marines as they begin their new careers in defence of their countries.
The basic training program is a 13-week course, which is followed by infantry training. This infantry training is conducted at Camp Geiger, North Carolina, for Parris Island trainees and Camp Pendleton, California, for San Diego trainees. All marines must pass through one or the other.
Marine boot camp training is considered by many to be as physically demanding as it is mentally. Recruits are taught the basic moral values of the marines: Honour, Courage, and Commitment. Recruits are not allowed to communicate with their family and friends, since cutting them off helps them to be trained and moulded within the confines of the boot camp.
It is a strenuous process, which culminates in the transformation of a raw recruit into a hardened marine ready to serve his or her country.
Recruit Receiving is the first step at a marine camp for new recruits. Recruits are instructed in their life at the camp, given gear, toiletries, and a haircut. Recruits will then pass through a barrage of medical tests, including a large amount of working out to predetermine their physical capabilities.
Following this, recruits meet their instructors and marching, discipline, and drills are taught at this point. This is followed by a time of intense physical training. During this time marine recruits are still grilled on the mental aspects on honour, courage, and loyalty.
The basic appeal of the marine boot camp is the Confidence Course, which is an 11-station obstacle course in water. Recruits have to score at least a Combat Water Survival score of four in order to progress beyond this stage. Basic Warrior Training follows, which includes the gas chamber test. This is all a set up for "The Crucible."
This is a period when recruits are deprived of sleep and food and are made to march for as many as 40 miles, encountering multiple obstacles along the way as they are expected not only to survive, but to help others along who are lagging, all the while being mentally grilled and challenged by the instructors.
After a final physical test and conclusive training, recruits are graduated to marines. They know they have earned this honour at this point, and family and friends are invited to a ceremony at the Shepard Field Parade Deck as the fresh marines are awarded their posts in the US Marines as they begin their new careers in defence of their countries.