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Pendleton. just a year ago. >> good morning, marines. >> good morning, sergeant. >> good morning, marines. >> good morning, sergeant! >> that's 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, they'll 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 ground and kill the enemy. >> so, yeah, there's a lot of

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! >> that's 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, they'll be shaped into warriors. this is marine combat training or mct. every year...

Had all just come out of boot camp and all part of marine combat training and again, the idea is to lay the groundwork early on so that moving forward, they know to respect marines of the opposite gender. >> all right. we're going to look forward to this. thank you so much. tune in to an all new episode of this is life, 10:00 eastern and pacific here on cnn. as fighting intensifies, president trump orders the remaining u.s. troops out of syria. a live report from northern syria next. performance comes in lots of flavors. there's the amped-up, over-tuned, feeding-frenzy-of sheet-metal-kind. a...

>> let's go! >> in this pressure cooker situation, men and women work the gun as a unit. >> two, two, one. >> it's a male dominated society. but we all wear the same color. we're 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, that's what they said. so a lot of people don't realize that the marines obligate every marine to go throu...

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 you'll see how it all went down. i will say that it certain was pretty awe inspiring to see what these men and women put themselves through in marine com...