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		<title>Fighting with the Royal Marine Commandos in Afganistan</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 12 Jan 2012 23:29:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The sky was gray. It was raining, muddy and cold. I’m tired. Everyone else must have been tired, too, but the Royal Marine Commandos are elite – they weren’t showing it. “That’s what we do, we yomp,” said Sgt. Noel Connelly, of the groups’ hiking with packs.. “Just like the Falklands in ‘82. We’re bootnecks. [...]]]></description>
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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>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>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>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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