For the MARINES..

[punchingdummy]

This is for PoiDog, KaBar, CaptShady, Bush51 and all the other devil dogs out there....

How much time did you spend training LINE once you got to the fleet? We all get LINE in school, but I'm curious how much different units actually reinforced/practived it.

If you did MCMAP, provide info on that training as well.

S/F

[Ka-Bar]

IIRC, my company at MCRD was one of the last to receive LINE training. By the time I had gotten through my MOS school (where we didn't practice it at all), MCMAPS had been implemented and I had to go through that.

My unit as it now stands, practices MCMAPS every 2nd or 3rd drill (nasty reservist here) for maybe 4 hours at a shot. Once on TAD at 29 Stumps, however, I was training with another unit whose MSgt was a 3rd dan in Kyokushin, IIRC and a 2nd degree black in MCMAPS. They trained MCMAPS every day, with body conditioning and full-contact sparring as the major focus. That unit was the most highly-trained in MCMAPS, next to the instructor school in Quantico.







P.S. CaptShady is a former Marine?! After seeing nedhinkly's "Fattest Poster" thread, I don't believe it.

[punchingdummy]

Originally posted by Ka-Bar

P.S. CaptShady is a former Marine?! After seeing nedhinkly's "Fattest Poster" thread, I don't believe it.

I believe he was a winger...

[nistev]

Originally posted by punchingdummy
This is for PoiDog, KaBar, CaptShady, Bush51 and all the other devil dogs out there....

How much time did you spend training LINE once you got to the fleet? We all get LINE in school, but I'm curious how much different units actually reinforced/practived it.

If you did MCMAP, provide info on that training as well.

S/F

just in boot camp and mct. when i got to the fleet my sncoic was a boxer and didn't put much weight into line training. so we boxed and wrestled.

Semper Fi!

[punchingdummy]

Originally posted by nistev
....didn't put much weight into line training. so we boxed and wrestled.


Seems to be a common theme.....

[Deluxe247]

I was not aware that we did LINE training at MCRD anymore.

[Ka-Bar]

Originally posted by punchingdummy
I believe he was a winger...

Like that's an excuse...

[Zerbe]

I just got out of active duty air force and i'm thinking of joining the marine reserves in the next year or so:) Are marine martial arts pretty effective?

[Ka-Bar]

Joining the reserves is a great idea. Joining them to learn martial arts, however, isn't.

[Zerbe]

Joining the reserves is a great idea. Joining them to learn martial arts, however, isn't.


That's funny, I dont recall saying i was joining the marines to learn martial arts.:cool: But thanks for taking the time to answer my question.

[Dochter]

Originally posted by punchingdummy
I believe he was a winger... What does this mean?

Reservist?

[punchingdummy]

Originally posted by Dochter
What does this mean?

Reservist?

Air Wing...the Marine Corps own little air force.

[Dochter]

They let jar heads into airplanes?

Wow. Learn something new every day.

[punchingdummy]

Originally posted by Zerbe
That's funny, I dont recall saying i was joining the marines to learn martial arts.:cool: But thanks for taking the time to answer my question.

Kabar didn't say anything about the Marine reserves. Besides, you are not qualified. You would have to go back to boot camp before the Marines would allow you to join one of there reserve units. :D

[punchingdummy]

Originally posted by Dochter
They let jar heads into airplanes?

Wow. Learn something new every day.

sometimes they even let us land in them...but usually we had to jump :)

[Dochter]

My dad always felt the Marines had the dumbest members of the armed forces. Since he was at some point in the Army, AirForce, Marines,and in purple suit outfits and worked in the pentagon I always took that as pretty accurate.

The fact that he usually followed that comment with "once a marine always a marine" seemed to confirm the point, since he had at some time been a marine.