Posted: 12/11/2008 8:26:42 PM EDT
| How much training does a standard Marine recieve before being put into an area of operation? I know there is boot camp how long is that? What is the training there after? |
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Being as simplistic as possible, An infantry Marine (Thats all I can speak for) will receive recruit training (13 weeks), then go to School of Infantry for 9 weeks, and then arrive at his unit where he will most likely participate in a workup for MEU(SOC), or a flyover deployment to Iraq.
The "boot" Marine may have only been with his Unit for one month prior to deployment, but that is rare now, and is usually about 5+ months of Fleet Marine Force training. |
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Marine boot camp is about 13 weeks. Combat training in boot camp is a joke. I can't speak for BWT, we didn't have it when I was in. Nor can I speak for School Of Infantry, I was an airwinger, not a real warrior. We sent the officers off to do the fighting. Agreed on Comabt training being sparse in Boot. The point is to put dicipline into the recruit, make him hard and used to constantly "sucking it the fuck up" 
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When I went in the USMC in 1979, you went to boot camp then your MOS school. I think it was called ITS (infantry training school at Camp Geiger). After that you boarded a cattle truck and were driven over to LeJeune where you joined the FMF.
When you joined your company, it was in the process of getting ready for deployment. Your company, and everyone else who was getting ready to go on a float would go hrough a whole process of making sure the entire deployment force was combat ready. |
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How much training does a standard Marine recieve before being put into an area of operation? I know there is boot camp how long is that? What is the training there after? Its already been answered, but here is what I got 3 months basic training at PI 3 weeks of Marine Combat Training (MCT for non-infantry MOS) at Camp Gieger/Lejeune 4 weeks of Marine Artillery Scout/Observer Course at Fort Sill, Ok 4 weeks of Naval Gunfire schooling at Coronado, Ca 1 week of workup with my ANGLICO unit and off the Iraq in March '03 |
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After recruit and MOS training prior to deploying now you must go through the Predeployment Training Program (PTP) cetification program. This general takes 3-4 months of 5 day a week, with a few multiweek excersises thrown in, for a unit to accomplish.
Individual augments can accomplish their block 1 training in about 3 weeks to a month, if they work 6 days a week during the training. There is no set answer on how long training will take to get to the Fleet Marine Force. Pipelines for MOSs vary from MOS to MOS. A cook can be in the fleet in 4-5 months after recruit training; while a pilot could take 2-3 years from completing OCS. My personel pipe line was after being an enlisted Marine, I went through OCS, than the 6 month Basic School for Officers (TBS ensuring all officers have the ability to lead a provisional rifle platoon). I went to the 5 month artillery officers basic course. After getting to the fleet, I went to various schools in between and sometime during deployments. So as a basic artillery officer, following OCS it took 11 months to get to get the fleet. |
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Marine boot camp is about 13 weeks. Combat training in boot camp is a joke. I can't speak for BWT, we didn't have it when I was in. Nor can I speak for School Of Infantry, I was an airwinger, not a real warrior. We sent the officers off to do the fighting. Unless you are Assault then you get to fly around quoting Full Metal Jacket and raining fire from your crew door with one of John Moses Browning's materpieces of destruction. 
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