PHASE 1 TRAINING DAYS

• Pugil Sticks II
• MCMAP: Counters to Chokes & Holds
• Class: Policy on Sexual Harrassment
• Class: Substance Abuse
• Class: First Aid VI
• CVD: Small Unit Leadership

• PT – Circuit Course with Sprints and Then a Tug of War
• MCMAP: Counters to Strikes
• First Aid Practical Applications
• CVD: Equal Opportunity
• More Drill Practice for the Initial Drill Competition

Lead Series

• Confidence Course
• Drill Practice
• CVD: Sexual Harrassment
• CVD: Substance Abuse I (Drugs)

Follow Series

• MCMAP Endurance Course (a course designed to put all their MCMAP moves they have learned to the test)
• Haircuts
• CVD: Sexual Harassment
• CVD: Substance Abuse I (Drugs)
• Drill practice for Initial Drill in 5 Days

Lead Series

• MCMAP Endurance Course

Follow Series

• Confidence Course

Both

• Haircuts
• Class: USMC History 1946-1953
• Suicide Prevention
• CVD: Medal of Honor recipient Daly

• 8km (4.97 miles) hump (aka hike)
• Class: Hazing
• Class: USMC History 1954-1975
• Senior Drill Instructor’s Inspection

Senior Drill Instructor’s Inspection Overview

This inspection is only one in many inspections they will receive while in training. Speed and Intensity is also tested here. This inspection is designed to teach them how to keep their bearing and remain calm under pressure. Responding under pressure is another crucial characteristic in combat. This inspection covers everything from their uniforms, knowledge, weapons, cleanliness, and bearing. No one will pass, it’s nothing to stress over it’s a learning experience and as mentioned above this is one of many inspections they will endure. As a matter of fact inspections are something they will get used to as their career in the Corps unfolds. They are never ending, and they have them all the time.

They are tested on the retention of what they have learned over that last three weeks to include Marine Corps knowledge and rifle manual. The questions they ask are fairly easy, i.e. – Who’s the Commandant of the Marine Corps or who is the Regimental Sergeant Major?

• Free Time: Attend Church Services
• Core Value Discussion (CVD)

Week 4 brings Basic Water Survival Training. By definition, the Marine Corps is an amphibious assault force. Therefore all Marine recruits are required to know how to survive in the water. Recruits receive basic water survival training at the indoor pool, which is safely conducted by specially trained instructors. Training in combat water survival develops a recruit’s confidence in the water.

All recruits train in the camouflage utility uniform, but those upgrading may be required to train in full combat gear, which includes a rifle, helmet, flak jacket and pack. Recruits who have trouble in the water, sometimes referred to as “Iron Ducks”, are given to a special group of drill instructors to help reinforce the basics because its pretty simple, if they don’t swim, they don’t become a Marine.

Recruits begin the course with CWS-4 qualification, the minimum qualification requirement for enlisted Marines, which focuses on personal survival without combat gear.

At this level, recruits swim 25-meters in shallow water using the beginner or survival stroke. They are also required to enter the pool from a 15-foot tower simulating the abandon ship technique. After returning to the surface they swim to an area where they tread water for four minutes. Recruits then swim another 25 meters to obtain the minimum requirement for graduation.

• Obstacle Course II
• MCMAP Remediation

• MCMAP Qualifications

MCMAP Testing Overview

Advancement in the belt ranking system includes meeting mental and character discipline requirements and the prerequisites for each belt level. Each Marine will be required to show that he has maintained proficiency in the physical disciplines of his current belt and the physical disciplines of the next belt level.

Tan Belt
The tan belt syllabus focuses on the development of the basics of armed and unarmed combat. Students start with the Basic Warrior Stance and break-falls are taught for safety, then move to:

• basic punches, uppercuts, and hooks
• basic upper-body strikes, including the eye gouge, hammer fists, and elbow strikes
• basic lower-body strikes, including kicks, knee strikes, and stomps
• bayonet techniques
• basic chokes, joint locks, and throws
• counters to strikes, chokes, and holds
• basic unarmed restraints and armed manipulations
• basic knife techniques
• basic weapons of opportunity

Students must prove proficiency with 70% of 50 techniques to pass and earn their belt. The tan belt syllabus is part of The Basic School and recruit training curriculum.

• Obstacle Course II
• 2.5  Mile Run
• BASES
• Pugil Sticks III
• CVGD: Operational Risk Management

• Freetime to attend church services
• CVGD: Law of War II
• CVGD: Code of Conduct II