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Pendleton. just a year ago. >> good morning, marines. >> good morning, sergeant. >> good morning, marines. >> good morning, sergeant! >> thats better. >> today about 300 brand new marines are arriving here at camp pendleton. they just finished three months of boot camp where they were broken down and rebuilt into disciplined marines. now over the next month, theyll be shaped into warriors. this is marine combat training or mct. every year 14,000 new marines come here to learn how to fight, gain ...

>> i have driven past this place many, many times but never been inside. it is massive. but this is no closed society. these are the united states marines, and this is camp pendleton. for almost eight decades, combat training here has been exclusively male, but just last year the marines made a monumental shift, adding something that would change this place forever -- women. now men and women are learning how to be a lethal strike force together. critics say it cant work. ive come here to shadow...

Infantry soldiers into combat. >> reporter: but the marines have been slow to con fortunately. o -- conform. one of the last iffacilities to open its doors to women is camp pendleton. >> good morning, marines. >> good morning, sergeant. >> good morning, marines. >> good morning, sergeant! >> thats better. >> today about 300 brand new marines are arriving here at camp pendleton. they just finished three months of boot camp where they were broken down and rebuilt into disciplined marines. now over...

But this is no closed society. these are the united states marines, and this is camp pendleton. for almost eight decades, combat training here has been exclusively male, but just last year the marines made a monumental shift, adding something that would change this place forever -- women. now men and women are learning how to be a lethal strike force together. critics say it cant work. ive come here to shadow three brand new female marines to see how they fare in what has been a mans world for g...

>> lets go! >> in this pressure cooker situation, men and women work the gun as a unit. >> two, two, one. >> its a male dominated society. but we all wear the same color. were all green. we all do the sakt exact same job. >> joining us now, lisa ling, host of this is life. in this episode, you visited camp pendleton, one of the last training facilities to integrate women. what do these ladies say is their experns? really are they treated do you feel like everybody is is alike? >> well, thats wha...

Decades and decade, men and women trained separately. over the last couple of years, they have begun to integrate men and women to do marine combat training together. we spent time at camp pendleton and we were part of a squad that had about 3300 some odd men and 70 women. probably not the kind of environment i would seek out but for those women there, they had just come out of boot camp. it was the first opportunity to train with the men and youll see how it all went down. i will say that it ce...

For decades and decades men and women have done it separately up until the last couple of years, and so we embedded with -- with a company called hotel company in camp pendleton, the last base to -- to begin gender integration, and we profile the number of women who are training alongside their male count parts, and youll see how it went tonight on "this is life." >> lisa, how did the male marines, given that this has been so controversial in the past, how did the male marines that you spoke wit...

>> what else do you have in store this season? >> its a very diverse season. our next episode will be about ben zoe die as pe-- theyre som the most widely prescribed medications on earth, but doctors have been overprescribing them in some cases and people have really been dealing with devastating consequences. we embed with a group of female marines in marine combat training where they are training alongside men for the first time in camp pendleton. we have a sweet episode about identical twins....

Deadly batch of drugs in the community. we remind the public not to use drugs. the living victims conditions range from critical to serious in the hospital. leland? leland: so much more to learn on this. jacqui heinrich in new york, back to you the rest of this sunday as news warrants. laura? laura: a u.s. marine missing since last week has been found safe of in texas. 20-year-old lance corporal joe wallace was taken into custody by ncias officials -- ncis officials after being found at a rest s...

Eric: a u.s. marine remains missing after he left arizona for camp pendleton in southern california leaving monday evening. his name is 20-year-old lance corporal jobe wallace, last seen at a friends house in the town of surprise, thats located northwest of phoenix. a border patrol camera recorded his truck traveling east on i-10, just southeast of el paso. that was on last tuesday. the naval criminal investigator service is looking into his disappearance. >> this section is 14, but were buildin...