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		<title>9/11 Inspires Baseball Player to Serve</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 Sep 2011 02:28:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Many say that everything is bigger in Texas, to include dreams. One Texan baseball player’s biggest dream, to become a U.S. Marine, has become a reality. Pvt. Ben W. Reed, Platoon 2128, Company F, grew up in Graham, Texas, a considerably large town that was known for its baseball. No one in Reed’s family played [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bulgarian Immigrant becomes Marine</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 04:34:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The U.S. Marine Corps is made up of people that come from all over the world, from every clime and place. Recruit Cvetomir V. Cvetkov, Platoon 1074, Company D., 1st Recruit Training Battalion is a native of Bulgaria, who joined the Marine Corps because he said he wanted to be one of the best.While getting [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New Father in Marines</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 19 Mar 2011 04:30:24 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The brutal physical conditioning, constant mental stress and desolation of emotional distance is enough to make the experience of Mar &#160; ine Corps recruit training hard. Pvt. Jonathan Dean, however, had two more reasons to stress during his time aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego.Dean arrived at MCRD on Dec. 13, 2010. Just two [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Drilling Discipline in Recruits</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 10 Mar 2011 10:15:26 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Discipline is defined at Parris Island as the instant, willing obedience to orders. Recruits demonstrate their understanding of this trait during the ninth week of recruit training, when platoons face off in a competition called Final Drill. “Drill is the foundation of discipline,” said Staff Sgt. Jorge Guerrero, the senior drill instructor for Platoon 1012, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Football player trades pads in for flak</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 02:25:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[After four years of playing offensive tackle on his high school’s football team, he was awarded a full scholarship to attend the University of Kansas in Lawrence, Kan., to  play football. Almost two years later, Recruit Bernard D. Lueken, Platoon 3246, Company L, couldn’t continue playing the role of a football player in the spotlight. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Fighting to belong</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Dec 2010 08:50:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[America has traditionally been known around the world as the land of opportunity because of the many immigrants who come to the United States aspiring to a better life. Some of them join the Armed Forces, which can also accelerate the process of gaining their citizenship and earning  the right to stay. Erbol Bekmuratov, a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Recruits Prepare for Combat</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 18 Sep 2010 00:41:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Table 2 Basic Combat Marksmanship Course is the first step in transitioning a Marine from fundamental marksmanship to becoming a proficient combat marksman. During Field Week, the second three-week phase of recruit training, Company F recruits completed the Table 2 Basic Combat  Marksmanship Course at Edson Range, Camp Pendleton, Calif., Dec. 3. “Table 2 [...]]]></description>
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		<title>U.S. Marine Corps Physical Fitness Test Requirements</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 26 Jul 2010 18:00:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Background: The United States Marine Corps requires that all Marines perform a Physical Fitness Test (PFT) and a Combat Fitness Test (CFT) once per fiscal year. Each test must have an interval of 6 months (same standards apply for reservists). The PFT ensures that Marines are keeping physically fit and in a state of physical [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Poolees Get Marksmanship Training</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:40:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blue skies, birds chirping and a cool breeze may be an ideal morning for most people, but add in the smell of gun powder and the crack of a hammer hitting a primer and sending rounds down range is what perks up most Marines. On recruiting duty, Marines are exempt from attending the rifle range, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Family values encourage new Marine to improve quality of life</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Jul 2010 00:20:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[When thinking about a question he has just been asked about his life Pfc. Duy Trinh takes a moment to reflect on the answer and also about how it may sound. “I was born in Saigon, Vietnam,” said Trinh through broken English.  Something in the way he pauses shows in his as eyes, as if the [...]]]></description>
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