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USNI News Marines Retooling Infantry Training for Complex Warfare in Pacific May 6, 2021 2:51 PM U.S. Marines with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry – West, take simulated artillery fire during the last event of a five-day capstone exercise for the Infantry Marine Course on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., on April 30, 2021. US Marine Corps CAMP PENDLETON, CALIF. — After 20 years of counterinsurgency and low-end conflict in the Middle East, the Marines are rapidly retooling for a different kind of fight. As the service has shed legacy equipment like t...

At the conclusion of the 14-week course, 90% of the newly minted grunts had the skills needed to survive in deep water.

Marine combat instructors may see special duty assignment status again 6 hours ago Chief Warrant Officer 4 Dave Tomlinson, infantry weapons officer at Marine Corps Systems Command, demonstrates the Squad Common Optic attached to the M27 Infantry Automatic Rifle. (Matt Gonzales/Marine Corps) CAMP PENDLETON, California ― In an effort to retain more and better combat instructors, the Marine Corps says it is strongly considering returning the billet to special duty assignment status ― a status in line with drill instructor or recruiter duty. Combat instructors had a special duty assign...

Marine Combat Instructors May Soon Get Their Special Duty Assignment Status Back U.S. Marine Sgt. Omer Nezam illustrates how to compact composition C-4 into an improvised bangalore explosive device during compartmentalized terrain training as part of the Infantry Marine Course on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, April 20, 2021. (U.S. Marine Corps/Sgt. Jeremy Laboy) 29 Apr 2021 CAMP PENDLETON, California -- The Marine Corps' new infantry training pilot program emphasizes greater development of students through personal mentorship and one-on-one instruction. If the program becomes ...

A new clime and place: Future battlefield at the forefront of new Marine School of Infantry pilot program March 8 In addition to extending the standard SOI course and adding new skills to the curriculum, the course will start training Marines for the new geographic focus and strategy. (Sgt. Tyler L. Main/Marine Corps) After nearly two decades of fighting wars all over the Middle East, the Corps is looking to fight in a new clime and place, using new tactics to take on near-peer enemies. The Corps’ shift to the Pacific and emphasis on expeditionary advanced base operations comes with a...