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		<title>Overcoming the rappel tower at MCRD</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 Dec 2011 02:43:32 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[For three months the recruits of Company C have overcome obstacles, swim qualification, the confidence course and countless other challenges. August 5 they overcame their biggest challenge to date. The depot’s rappel tower shoots 60 feet into the San Diego skyline terrifying those afraid of heights and giving recruits exciting Marine Corps training. “It’s just [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Sports Medicine and Injury Prevention</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 24 Jun 2011 02:11:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Marines pride themselves on being the toughest of all military branches. According to a “Times Magazine” article that came o ut earlier this month, the United States Marine Corps basic training is the most “bone crushing” basic training in all the United States Armed Forces. Data contained in military reports from 2004 to 2010 show [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Final Physical Fitness Training PFT</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jun 2011 02:46:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s 7:30 a.m. and if someone is standing in one spot for even half a moment too long he’ll feel the warmth of southern California’s August sun. Good thing the recruits of Company B won’t be standing still for their final Physical Fitness Test The PFT is administered the first six months of the year, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Pugil sticks teach close quarters combat</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 02:38:54 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sound of a whistle blow brings two Marine recruits charging into the middle of a dirt ring in one of the training areas of Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. Other than the grunts and groans from the fighters, drill instructors can be heard yelling at the recruits to hit here, or slash there. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>USMC Combat Fitness Test</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 03:55:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With 30-pound ammunition cans in each hand, recruits of Company C, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, Recruit Training Regiment, use what energy is left to sprint across the finish line without dropping them.This is just one requirement of the Combat Fitness Test. The CFT is an annual test required between July 1 and December 31 each [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Assault Course</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 02:30:38 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[From learning discipline through practicing drill to learning to focus in chaos at the rifle range, Marine recruits are constantly saturated with information and skills to help them become well-rounded warriors who can maintain the standards set by Marines from the past and present. As training progresses, recruits are required to learn and exhibit more [...]]]></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>Rifle Training &#8211; Then and Now</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 15 Jan 2011 17:31:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[1946 – 1950 Once World War II came to a close, Marine Barracks, Parris Island was renamed Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island in September 1946, according to Eugene Alvarez, a researcher for the Marine Corps Historical Division. Alvarez writes that along with the name change, women were allowed to return to the Corps on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marine recruits take sparring to ring</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 25 Nov 2010 12:00:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Two recruits yell at the top of their lungs as they rush into the small wooden ring. Both tired and hungry, they give everything they have left to come out on top. Body sparring is an event on the Crucible in which recruits put their Marine Corps martial arts moves to use. The Crucible is [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Marines train with UFC fighters</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 18 Nov 2010 01:43:56 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mixed martial artists and the Ultimate Fighting Championship fighters from the Victory Fitness Center, Point Loma, came to Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego’s martial arts satellite school, Oct. 1, to teach servicemembers additional martial arts techniques. “There are many military members that come to Victory Fitness Center,” said Elias Gallagos, an MMA instructor at [...]]]></description>
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