MCT / Camp Geiger was the hardest month of my life. I remember wanting nothing more than to quit. Sitting in the below freezing rain, outside, with our DIs not allowing us to change into dry cammies, catching strep throat and pneumonia. MCT was by far harder in one month than boot camp in three months.
@@Skill_4015 I’m not in anymore, I completed one contract (4 years active / 4 inactive reserves). Yes, was worth it for many reasons. It opened the doors to pay for my college and got me out of debt. The skills I learned made it possible for me to get a high paying successful job that I love (now I work with the military as a contractor). I also conquered many fears and proved to myself that I can do a lot more than I thought before. If you should go in is a question up to you. You should ask yourself if this country is worth risking your life for. It’s a diff country now than even 10 years ago. The risk of going to war is a reality, no matter how unlikely it may seem. It’s a hard life to live for many years, but don’t let that stop you. Research it out.
100% agree. I liked the shooting and new weapons, but the classes were mind numbing shit fests and hiking everywhere for miles daily was annoying because I'm 5'6". Short people hate hikes lol
In 2007 it was boot camp phase 4. There was not a single instructor who wasn’t yelling at the new Marines as they got to SOI west. Most of our instructors just came back from Iraq after re-enlisting. When I got there I saw a few fat bodies that got off the bus after being on 1-2 months of recruiters assistance that couldn’t fit into any of their uniforms at check in. It was a bad day for them.
@@McClain_Train They named our barracks after him in Kings Bay GA where he was stationed before he went to the fleet. I personally never met him but I did see his family at the barracks dedication ceremony.
@@dontjudgeme041 On god. I fell asleep dreamed about being home and everything in the middle of one of the hikes. Woke up still hiking and had no idea where tf I was for a few seconds.
Yeah we had 2 injured in Iraq instructors in my platoon in 09. One had like a face full of shrapnel scars and the other had a big ass hole/scar in their leg from an IED. Both lucky to be alive and also some bad mfs
I was one of those first in Iraq. I was forced out after the stop loss and getting injured. But I can imagine trainers at this time were among the most intense ever.
In 1973 after coming back from overseas, I was sent to San Mateo, I got a TAD (Temp. Assigned Duty) as a troop handler (Blue Hat) at San Onefre, todays training makes me feel safe knowing what training they are getting.. I was an 0351, Semper Fi.
When I finished bootcamp in Parris Island in 1990, everyone was required to go to MCT at Camp Geiger. Regardless of whether you were going to SOI or not, we all did MCT prior to MOS school.
This was nothing like our MCT when I went (Sept 18 2021). We arrived at Camp Geiger in cammies and had about 4 days of receiving. We got issued our gear, which included the M16A4 and the M4 Carbine (only if you were shorter than 5 foot 4 inches). They had no foregrips and no adjustable buttstock. We did the 8k hike at Camp Geiger, then the day after got bussed out to the ranges where we spent the week shooting table 3, 4, 5, and 6. We didn't shoot m240s because some kid committed suicide at the range. They didn't even grade the tables either they just watched us do it. We got about 3 hours of sleep each night at the ranges and after we were done we got bussed out to Camp Devil Dog and we learned field stuff from about 0530 to 1500 then we just sat around all day waiting until it was time to sleep. We usually averaged about 6-7 hours of sleep at Devil Dog. We then did the 15k hike on the last Sunday there, did the Field Exercise where we basically did one patrol and spent the rest of the time in a foxhole. We had no graded evaluations whatsoever and we barely had any class time nor did we learn jack shit about urban warfare. Our last day we hiked back to the ranges to conduct live fire buddy rushing and then we went back to Camp Geiger to get proccessed out. The Combat Instructors could be dickheads at times but most of the time they were stern but as long as you did what you were told fast they wouldn't mess with you. We got our phones the entire time and were allowed to PX runs, one when we got there and the other at Camp Devil Dog. We also didn't even have a graduation they just gave us a completion certificate and basically told us to fuck off.
My experience was nothing like what you gone through we had a pretty good amount of sleep and we also didn’t learn urban warfare I went through January 2019 we were all pissed we didn’t get to learn urban warfare we had a great NCO sgt Chaves a former Marsac marine and a infantry marine and When we went to go shoot the m240b we got 10 hours of sleep we all had a great time except going to the range to shoot the M240 bravo‘s that hike was a bitch almost as bad as doing the crucible hike
I just graduated yesterday from camp geiger and your description is exactly how it went for us as well, It was nothing like it should have been, they need to change it and make it harder and make you do more and learn more, they taught us the basics and then we just sat around all day when we could've been training.
Old Corps New Corps So much better for post-boot camp training in 21st century. In the last century one went to Infantry Training Regiment (ITR) at Camp Geiger (East Coast) at Camp Lejeune. Very crude and basic combat skills training which in 1965 didn't really prepare new warriors for Vietnam. Our training was with the M1 Grand rifle (boot camp we had M14) and in Vietnam M16s. There was even time spent with BAR (WW2/Korea) vintage which we never saw again after ITR.
Just a few things. Right now marines don’t get that sweet sweet 10 days of leave now due to COVID untill they graduate SOI. Also usually with the rifles they use in training are M27 (at 5:20 and a few other spots they have an M27 but I saw some M16A4 in there which only MCT uses) and would have a Foregrip on it. Just wanted to throw some facts out there for people just wondering about things
a couple errors, there is no leave until you hit the fleet, or get lucky. as of rn only mct uses m16a4s with a couple variations, and only ITB uses m27s.
@@hooded6735 yup but if you go MSG or MSF or even recon you go through ITB but won’t go on leave after that you would go straight to that schooling then leave which is a 50/50 on leave after from what I’m told.
I remember doing the 10k and 15k with the 50. Cal and saw all the MCT companies hiking too up the microwave. And the look on thier faces when they say us with the .50, the fact that my team had taken another teams gun. So we had double the weight. My TL had both recivers up on each shoulder. It's was the craziest thing I've ever seen. I had the tripod and spear barrel. MCT is a cakewalk from the little i heard. An instructor yelled at his plt, "Get out of the way of gunz"
I remember hiding out w my fire team in a river bottom during land nav in MCT. Best break I ever had. We had time to take a nap and chill in the shade and still finished before everyone. Hikes were harder back then, but damn this brings back memories.
He probably had a couple of NCOs and SNCOs that saw some graphic stuff in the Middle East , like mine did. And they get EXTRA PASSIONATE because of it. They don’t mess around at all.
After getting out of boot camp we had to go through 2nd ITR at Camp San Onofre at 52 area just inside the gate at San Clemente. If I remember correctly it was about 100 yards past Camp San Mateo. San Mateo is at the base of Old Smokey. I used to look at the top of old Smokey and was glad we did not have to hump up that hill. There used to be porgy bait machines between the camps that had sodas and candy and stuff. Chow at the messhall at 2nd ITR or 2nd Infantry Regiment was no better than chow at the messhall.
When I went through this school in 07, it wasn't much different than what was shown here. All of instructors had been to Iraq and Afghanistan and they were pretty tough, one of our instructors would be up late with some of us who didn't want to sleep telling us about sht he did on deployment, would start crying and sht telling us...little did i know what that was about, 18 yo me definitely didn't know sht about a PTSD. For MOUT we had simunition rounds to shoot the targets but there were also instructors with the black shirts and black masks, that would shoot at us. Me and my buddy that ran through the town had to jump a wall, he goes over as I'm covering him, some instructors popped up on top of the building across the street so i shoot a couple rounds at them i hit one of them but the other ducked, he's over i go to jump over and the one instructor left on the building shot me in the ass...left a blue paint mark, pretty funny and it kind of hurt. It was a pretty good school for basic infantry training. It was pretty much what the grunts go through but accelerated and certain things get taken out, not as much ruck marching etc. It came in handy as I was a pog who ended up at an H&S company of an infantry unit. So going out to the field, and pre deployment training, our command made our entire company do pre deployment training stuff, which included running some of the same ranges the infantry guys had to run etc. Then my first deployment to iraq, i got voluntold to man a detention facility on fob habiniyah for a couple months until we moved to cop rawah. We had to handle detainees like what was shown in the first part of this video. Had to go on convoys outside of the wire a lot for my job, sometimes 2-3 day convoys where we had to spend the night in the trucks completely outside of any wire, take turns on watch all night with nvg's. I'm glad the Marine Corps makes everyone do some kind of infantry training. But from what I'm hearing, they really watered down MCT now since we aren't at war, which sucks..im guessing this footage is actually from the 2010's sometime because I've heard from several people MCT isn't like this anymore, its a lot more relaxed. Semper Fi.
I'm a US Army Reserve veteran and currently active in private security. I'm noticing several mistakes. These are: 1) Firing over obstacles instead of around them. This exposes the head, shoulders and chest to enemy fire. 2) Lack of cover fire as troops move from one point to the next. Also, their movements are sluggish. Moving from one objective to another must be done rapidly and with sufficient covering fire. And, weapons should not be at the low ready while on the move but be pointed in the direction from where enemy fire is likely. 3) Soldiers pointing their weapons toward the backs of the soldier in front of them during room entry/clearing. The muzzle of the weapon should be pointed upward. An accidental discharge to the back would severely injure or kill a fellow soldier. 4) Soldiers giving confusing commands to detainees at the same time. Only one person should be giving commands as the other(s) provide security. 5) A detainee being "cuffed" or "zip tied" whilst standing. He should be flat on his belly, (or at least on his knees) properly subdued and then you stand him up. 6) Soldiers in the kneeling prone whilst in the open, when they should be in the flat prone. (However, even the flat prone could still expose a soldier to small arms fire and grenades). FINAL NOTE: It's difficult to determine from the video the exact distance that the troops are from one another while they are on patrol in open spaces. That being said, it is important that they be adequately spaced apart. At least five or six meters should suffice. Any distance more than that and they might not be able to verbally communicate effectively. Gunfights can get pretty loud. Nonetheless, they ought not to be "bunched" to closely together. A machine gunner or sniper would have a field day. God Bless America, God Bless the US Military and God Bless New York City 🇺🇲
Yeah this is more than likely their first walk through. The person you mention being confused by commands is an actual Instructor. They just graduated Boot Camp and believe it or not you barely get any practical military training in the 13 weeks there, that's not what it's for. You do learn space and stagger and alert to the dirt and ready, but the amount of actual training time to build muscle memory is practically nil at Boot Camp (apart from marksmanship which is heavily emphasized). This is why you have Infantry School after, and then go on to your MOS school.
Only positive things created by God and a body disciplined in positive activities can destroy negative energy. Positive things:- Green vegetables, wood, leaves, soil, nature, environment, animals, etc. Positive activities:- Respect for things, conservation, cooperation, complete solution. Warriors, the era of providing support and cooperation to this land with sacred flow has begun 🙂✊🇺🇸
Probably why I’ll never join any conventional force again ( was in the USMC for 8 years in comm) if I were to reborn. Too much waiting in line, yelling, baby sitting, lack of equipment and too much bs. I’ll probably try out for special force like seal. I just want to get the real training and get my job done in the professional manner and go home.
@@mahrreongreer3673 I think you will most likely do the normal 8 or 9 weeks, a couple people in ITB were telling me that there is no more IMC because it was too expensive but I could be wrong. Also from what I’ve seen you will have your phone every time your in the squad bay but when you go to the field they’ll have you lock them up or take them
@@a.p.0.v that’s if you get liberty, we only got about 2 hours of libo the entire month, I saw another company get a full day of libo, you will get your phone the day before the two tests to “study”
Just to know during the scene of graduation, I saw the Mississippi flag that also had the Confederate flag on it. This resulted in the state of Mississippi adopting a new flag.
i say chair force, but depending on what you want like specific MOS then it might be the Marines. Think about what you want. Just do my 4 years and out? or ride it out for 20.
Hey ummm some info in the video is wrong I did basic west coast at MCRD but I’m doing ITB at Geiger NC...... and we don’t get bootleave anymore rn due to covid
My son left to booth camp yesterday. I was told they implementing extension to infantry school and it will be 6 months starting June, no booth leave 😡😡😡
I’ve heard that ITB is just the crucible on steroids, and that MCT is the same thing but alot easier, but knowing my drill instructors they probably just want to scare everyone into thinking the worst case scenario, even then the crucible was easy light work
SOI (School of Infantry) is divided into two parts: MCT and IMC (formerly known as ITB). Anyone with an MOS of 03xx will attend IMC (Infantry Marine Course), but if you have an MOS other than 03xx you will attend MCT (Marine Combat Training). Both schools teach every Marine how to be a rifleman because every Marine is considered a rifleman but not every rifleman is considered a Marine.
This hurts watching. So many lasering going on. I was always told in urban combat to always look for work that means muzzle pointing to where you are scanning looking in windows on all levels where the potential threats could be.
I really hope who is giving commands at 0:50 is not an instructor because they need to fix his trigger discipline. NEVER LEAVE YOUR HAND OFF THE TRIGGER. Non-Trigger Hand for Signals only. Congrats he kept his eye on the target. He'll watch what happens while he can't react immediately -_- It's like watching American Sniper Movie where they have Bradley Cooper as the Actor, during the scene to help the Marines kick down doors, gives the breaching signal with his firing hand. Horrible demonstrations
I went to MCT before Infantry School and didn't think much about it. It was not like it was hard in any way, and neither was Infantry school hard I was a 0331.
This is no where close to what MCT is 😂 I’m a grunt went thru ITB has friends in MCT seen the MCT training nothing like this also they only get issued m16. Also they were flagging each other hard in the first video segment shown. I grad ITB not too long ago
@@hooded6735 Marine Corps was great during Iwo Jima but after that not Too good There was A lot arguing As too how effective they Where combating Insurgency In Fallujah, Iraq And the U.S. Army Rangers Just spend most of there Time Babysitting Delta Force In Afghanistan
Only positive things created by God and a body disciplined in positive activities can destroy negative energy. Positive things:- Green vegetables, wood, leaves, soil, nature, environment, animals, etc. Positive activities:- Respect for things, conservation, cooperation, complete solution. Warriors, the era of providing support and cooperation to this land with sacred flow has begun 🙂✊🇺🇸
MCT / Camp Geiger was the hardest month of my life. I remember wanting nothing more than to quit. Sitting in the below freezing rain, outside, with our DIs not allowing us to change into dry cammies, catching strep throat and pneumonia. MCT was by far harder in one month than boot camp in three months.
@@Skill_4015 I’m not in anymore, I completed one contract (4 years active / 4 inactive reserves).
Yes, was worth it for many reasons. It opened the doors to pay for my college and got me out of debt. The skills I learned made it possible for me to get a high paying successful job that I love (now I work with the military as a contractor). I also conquered many fears and proved to myself that I can do a lot more than I thought before.
If you should go in is a question up
to you. You should ask yourself if this country is worth risking your life for. It’s a diff country now than even 10
years ago. The risk of going to war is a reality, no matter how unlikely it may seem. It’s a hard life to live for many years, but don’t let that stop you. Research it out.
100% agree. I liked the shooting and new weapons, but the classes were mind numbing shit fests and hiking everywhere for miles daily was annoying because I'm 5'6". Short people hate hikes lol
Hardest hike of my life in MCT... That thing was more than 20 miles!
it was cold as fuck. One guy got meningitis and got med sep'd out
In 2007 it was boot camp phase 4. There was not a single instructor who wasn’t yelling at the new Marines as they got to SOI west. Most of our instructors just came back from Iraq after re-enlisting.
When I got there I saw a few fat bodies that got off the bus after being on 1-2 months of recruiters assistance that couldn’t fit into any of their uniforms at check in. It was a bad day for them.
Same. Most of my instructors were from 3/7 and had served with Cpl Dunham. They were great leaders but understandably had high expectations
oh boy, i reminded Combat instructors yelling at them for getting fat and taking them out to PT more than others until they got back in shape
Yeah same in 09. I'd rather go through bootcamp again before mct
@@McClain_Train They named our barracks after him in Kings Bay GA where he was stationed before he went to the fleet. I personally never met him but I did see his family at the barracks dedication ceremony.
@@BtRct Small world man. I was stationed there 07-09
So many memories. MCT (MRE Consumption Training). It was the best of times and the worst of times.
😂omg yes the amount of damn weight I gained from all those MREs
Dude I lost weight in MCT our instructors always gave us only couple mins to eat
I don't remember MCT anymore I was constantly sleep deprived it's just a blur
Im at Camp geiger right now, I just finished the effects
@@dontjudgeme041 On god. I fell asleep dreamed about being home and everything in the middle of one of the hikes. Woke up still hiking and had no idea where tf I was for a few seconds.
When I was there in 08, most of the instructors were in the battle of Fallujah and Ramadi. Scary time to be a boot Marine, lol.
Yeah we had 2 injured in Iraq instructors in my platoon in 09. One had like a face full of shrapnel scars and the other had a big ass hole/scar in their leg from an IED. Both lucky to be alive and also some bad mfs
Same.
2008 was Great time
I was one of those first in Iraq. I was forced out after the stop loss and getting injured. But I can imagine trainers at this time were among the most intense ever.
In 1973 after coming back from overseas, I was sent to San Mateo, I got a TAD (Temp. Assigned Duty) as a troop handler (Blue Hat) at San Onefre, todays training makes me feel safe knowing what training they are getting.. I was an 0351, Semper Fi.
They are not getting that training anymore unfortunately. :(
Holy shit, that instructor playing insurgent was one of my instructors in MCT 4 years ago. Nuts!
When I finished bootcamp in Parris Island in 1990, everyone was required to go to MCT at Camp Geiger. Regardless of whether you were going to SOI or not, we all did MCT prior to MOS school.
its still the same way
This was nothing like our MCT when I went (Sept 18 2021). We arrived at Camp Geiger in cammies and had about 4 days of receiving. We got issued our gear, which included the M16A4 and the M4 Carbine (only if you were shorter than 5 foot 4 inches). They had no foregrips and no adjustable buttstock. We did the 8k hike at Camp Geiger, then the day after got bussed out to the ranges where we spent the week shooting table 3, 4, 5, and 6. We didn't shoot m240s because some kid committed suicide at the range. They didn't even grade the tables either they just watched us do it. We got about 3 hours of sleep each night at the ranges and after we were done we got bussed out to Camp Devil Dog and we learned field stuff from about 0530 to 1500 then we just sat around all day waiting until it was time to sleep. We usually averaged about 6-7 hours of sleep at Devil Dog. We then did the 15k hike on the last Sunday there, did the Field Exercise where we basically did one patrol and spent the rest of the time in a foxhole. We had no graded evaluations whatsoever and we barely had any class time nor did we learn jack shit about urban warfare. Our last day we hiked back to the ranges to conduct live fire buddy rushing and then we went back to Camp Geiger to get proccessed out. The Combat Instructors could be dickheads at times but most of the time they were stern but as long as you did what you were told fast they wouldn't mess with you. We got our phones the entire time and were allowed to PX runs, one when we got there and the other at Camp Devil Dog. We also didn't even have a graduation they just gave us a completion certificate and basically told us to fuck off.
Man I’m going to mct January 18th can’t wait
My experience was nothing like what you gone through we had a pretty good amount of sleep and we also didn’t learn urban warfare I went through January 2019 we were all pissed we didn’t get to learn urban warfare we had a great NCO sgt Chaves a former Marsac marine and a infantry marine and When we went to go shoot the m240b we got 10 hours of sleep we all had a great time except going to the range to shoot the M240 bravo‘s that hike was a bitch almost as bad as doing the crucible hike
Do they still there give liberty on the weekends at SOI? I was there in 2002 and we would go down to Wilmington lol.
Sounds about right
I just graduated yesterday from camp geiger and your description is exactly how it went for us as well, It was nothing like it should have been, they need to change it and make it harder and make you do more and learn more, they taught us the basics and then we just sat around all day when we could've been training.
Old Corps New Corps So much better for post-boot camp training in 21st century. In the last century one went to Infantry Training Regiment (ITR) at Camp Geiger (East Coast) at Camp Lejeune. Very crude and basic combat skills training which in 1965 didn't really prepare new warriors for Vietnam. Our training was with the M1 Grand rifle (boot camp we had M14) and in Vietnam M16s. There was even time spent with BAR (WW2/Korea) vintage which we never saw again after ITR.
Crazy this video didnt show standby which is half of your time at mct lol
How to know if someone was actually in lol
Facts lol
Hurry up and wait
😂😂😂
Yup
At ease, first
Standby… Big Five!
Wow a lot of memories. I totally forgot about that live fire drill running to each sand bag.
At least at Pendleton your surroundings can give you some kind of morale boost. Can't say the same about Camp Geiger or Camp Devil Dog lmao.
as someone who went there that is a fucking lie
yeah, no. SOI West is the most depressing place I’ve ever been
@@dreamvisitor i like your profile pic, great band.
@@Kilroy098 thank you! they were the first band I listened to when I finished both boot camp and MCT
@@dreamvisitor same here man that’s so cool
i constantly listened to them during my off time when i was at ITX
Woman to guy, weapon on safe weapon on safe,
Guy: aye sir!
😂
Command presence will do that to ya! Oorah to that marine, she's badass
If i had 5 dollars for every time i said aye sir to a woman i could get myself a new AR
I still remember the dity lol”weapon on safe, hands, knees, weapon!!!!!! I’m up, he sees me , I’m down!!!””
yo this training is so much better than what i received at soi west back in 2019 kind of wish i could go back and learn more but oh well i guess
Just a few things. Right now marines don’t get that sweet sweet 10 days of leave now due to COVID untill they graduate SOI. Also usually with the rifles they use in training are M27 (at 5:20 and a few other spots they have an M27 but I saw some M16A4 in there which only MCT uses) and would have a Foregrip on it. Just wanted to throw some facts out there for people just wondering about things
Thanks for your information.
a couple errors, there is no leave until you hit the fleet, or get lucky. as of rn only mct uses m16a4s with a couple variations, and only ITB uses m27s.
@@TimesArchivesAfter MCT marines go off to their respective MOS schools. ITB are the only ones to go to their PDS because that is their MOS school
@@hooded6735 yup but if you go MSG or MSF or even recon you go through ITB but won’t go on leave after that you would go straight to that schooling then leave which is a 50/50 on leave after from what I’m told.
The only thing you’re correct about is the COVID 10 days of leave thing
I remember doing the 10k and 15k with the 50. Cal and saw all the MCT companies hiking too up the microwave. And the look on thier faces when they say us with the .50, the fact that my team had taken another teams gun. So we had double the weight. My TL had both recivers up on each shoulder. It's was the craziest thing I've ever seen. I had the tripod and spear barrel. MCT is a cakewalk from the little i heard. An instructor yelled at his plt, "Get out of the way of gunz"
I remember hiding out w my fire team in a river bottom during land nav in MCT. Best break I ever had. We had time to take a nap and chill in the shade and still finished before everyone. Hikes were harder back then, but damn this brings back memories.
My son said MCT was harder than bootcamp. Stressful and he started chewing Tobacco on the field
He probably had a couple of NCOs and SNCOs that saw some graphic stuff in the Middle East , like mine did. And they get EXTRA PASSIONATE because of it. They don’t mess around at all.
only time I ever smoked in my life was during MCT
MCT was alot easier than bootcamp for me.
Marines made me a smoker too lmfao it happens
What's MCT
We didn't have this in 1987 when I graduated PI I just went to my MOS school. Semper FI Marines !!!
I remember We got 30 days leave, then most of us went to Camp Pendleton for added trading then off to Vietnam.
I was in Pendleton in 98. The FINEX came to an abrupt end because a lightning strike in the hills touched off some fires.
New Marine: "Every marine is a Rifleman!"
XO: "You're a 0331"
New marine: :O
This is comedy. Recruits running wild muzzle sweeping themselves, while the instructor just walks around casually 12:55. 1997-2001
Stop being the 10% man.
After getting out of boot camp we had to go through 2nd ITR at Camp San Onofre at 52 area just inside the gate at San Clemente. If I remember correctly it was about 100 yards past Camp San Mateo. San Mateo is at the base of Old Smokey. I used to look at the top of old Smokey and was glad we did not have to hump up that hill. There used to be porgy bait machines between the camps that had sodas and candy and stuff. Chow at the messhall at 2nd ITR or 2nd Infantry Regiment was no better than chow at the messhall.
My heart dropped @4:00 😂 I thought I was already there lmfaooo but here I am studying for my ASVAB
When I went through this school in 07, it wasn't much different than what was shown here. All of instructors had been to Iraq and Afghanistan and they were pretty tough, one of our instructors would be up late with some of us who didn't want to sleep telling us about sht he did on deployment, would start crying and sht telling us...little did i know what that was about, 18 yo me definitely didn't know sht about a PTSD. For MOUT we had simunition rounds to shoot the targets but there were also instructors with the black shirts and black masks, that would shoot at us. Me and my buddy that ran through the town had to jump a wall, he goes over as I'm covering him, some instructors popped up on top of the building across the street so i shoot a couple rounds at them i hit one of them but the other ducked, he's over i go to jump over and the one instructor left on the building shot me in the ass...left a blue paint mark, pretty funny and it kind of hurt. It was a pretty good school for basic infantry training. It was pretty much what the grunts go through but accelerated and certain things get taken out, not as much ruck marching etc. It came in handy as I was a pog who ended up at an H&S company of an infantry unit. So going out to the field, and pre deployment training, our command made our entire company do pre deployment training stuff, which included running some of the same ranges the infantry guys had to run etc. Then my first deployment to iraq, i got voluntold to man a detention facility on fob habiniyah for a couple months until we moved to cop rawah. We had to handle detainees like what was shown in the first part of this video. Had to go on convoys outside of the wire a lot for my job, sometimes 2-3 day convoys where we had to spend the night in the trucks completely outside of any wire, take turns on watch all night with nvg's. I'm glad the Marine Corps makes everyone do some kind of infantry training. But from what I'm hearing, they really watered down MCT now since we aren't at war, which sucks..im guessing this footage is actually from the 2010's sometime because I've heard from several people MCT isn't like this anymore, its a lot more relaxed. Semper Fi.
Great job at the NCO for correcting the Marine @3:10 mark. Definitely flagging. Hoorah
plot twist every marine isnt a rifleman
My SOI WAS WAY DIFFERENT WE RAN THOSE HUMPS, INSTRUCTORS WERE NOT NICE LIKE THIS MARINES crazy
God I wish I was as cool as you
@@1Joshrustownage you are you just don't know it
@@Me-fn2rq lmao
1st Battalion Delta Co. Parris Island 1997. I remember going to MCT and it was worse than boot camp.
lololol, at 8:39 that girl rode the charging handle back in so it never latched shut and wouldn't fire cuz the bolt was out of battery.
MCT means MRE consumption training! Thats what my two US Marine sons told me, LOL
Can you do some recon stuff next also love this
We definitely didnt get to do such in depth MOUT training when I went to MCT, I'm kinda jealous
Really? I remember spending a ton of time there until we had to go back to Geiger because Hurricane Irene came through North Carolina.
I'm a US Army Reserve veteran and currently active in private security. I'm noticing several mistakes. These are:
1) Firing over obstacles instead of around them. This exposes the head, shoulders and chest to enemy fire.
2) Lack of cover fire as troops move from one point to the next. Also, their movements are sluggish. Moving from one objective to another must be done rapidly and with sufficient covering fire. And, weapons should not be at the low ready while on the move but be pointed in the direction from where enemy fire is likely.
3) Soldiers pointing their weapons toward the backs of the soldier in front of them during room entry/clearing. The muzzle of the weapon should be pointed upward. An accidental discharge to the back would severely injure or kill a fellow soldier.
4) Soldiers giving confusing commands to detainees at the same time. Only one person should be giving commands as the other(s) provide security.
5) A detainee being "cuffed" or "zip tied" whilst standing. He should be flat on his belly, (or at least on his knees) properly subdued and then you stand him up.
6) Soldiers in the kneeling prone whilst in the open, when they should be in the flat prone. (However, even the flat prone could still expose a soldier to small arms fire and grenades).
FINAL NOTE: It's difficult to determine from the video the exact distance that the troops are from one another while they are on patrol in open spaces. That being said, it is important that they be adequately spaced apart. At least five or six meters should suffice. Any distance more than that and they might not be able to verbally communicate effectively. Gunfights can get pretty loud. Nonetheless, they ought not to be "bunched" to closely together. A machine gunner or sniper would have a field day.
God Bless America, God Bless the US Military and God Bless New York City 🇺🇲
Yeah this is more than likely their first walk through. The person you mention being confused by commands is an actual Instructor. They just graduated Boot Camp and believe it or not you barely get any practical military training in the 13 weeks there, that's not what it's for. You do learn space and stagger and alert to the dirt and ready, but the amount of actual training time to build muscle memory is practically nil at Boot Camp (apart from marksmanship which is heavily emphasized). This is why you have Infantry School after, and then go on to your MOS school.
Shut up
Only positive things created by God and a body disciplined in positive activities can destroy negative energy.
Positive things:- Green vegetables, wood, leaves, soil, nature, environment, animals, etc.
Positive activities:- Respect for things, conservation, cooperation, complete solution.
Warriors, the era of providing support and cooperation to this land with sacred flow has begun 🙂✊🇺🇸
Looks badass
You said there that "female marines are an exception" but can they join if they want to?
We had training similar to this in ‘84 ITS Camp Pendleton
Probably why I’ll never join any conventional force again ( was in the USMC for 8 years in comm) if I were to reborn. Too much waiting in line, yelling, baby sitting, lack of equipment and too much bs. I’ll probably try out for special force like seal. I just want to get the real training and get my job done in the professional manner and go home.
Too much crayon for me! They didn't taste that great! Plus, in Boot...too many dudes going to the Head to give head!! POG life was great!
Do the VLR still pose a threat to the NRAS camp Geiger & surrounding areas?
11:04 bros on recruit mode 😂
Ah yes, MCT... Mosquitoes, Chiggers and Ticks
I don't care what color you are of you are female Marine you have our respect and got your back forever, LORD knows..
SEMPER FI ✊🏻
Going to mct on Sunday I’m excited
Where was this video filmed? It looks like Combat Town in Camp Lejeune?
I graduated MCT west a couple days ago, this video is completely outdated, if you got questions hmu
Yo on my boot leave right now about to go to Mct/ITB is it still 9 weeks or have they already changed to 14? And do we have access to our phones
@@mahrreongreer3673 I think you will most likely do the normal 8 or 9 weeks, a couple people in ITB were telling me that there is no more IMC because it was too expensive but I could be wrong. Also from what I’ve seen you will have your phone every time your in the squad bay but when you go to the field they’ll have you lock them up or take them
@@a.p.0.v that’s if you get liberty, we only got about 2 hours of libo the entire month, I saw another company get a full day of libo, you will get your phone the day before the two tests to “study”
Good 잘보고 갑니다
U can keep your phone on MCT?, you know for the homesickness
Just to know during the scene of graduation, I saw the Mississippi flag that also had the Confederate flag on it.
This resulted in the state of Mississippi adopting a new flag.
Still deciding on whether I should join the Air Force or Marines
Air Force
@@ryansmith857 Got it brotha , I was thinking that too
Chair force
i say chair force, but depending on what you want like specific MOS then it might be the Marines. Think about what you want. Just do my 4 years and out? or ride it out for 20.
@@ryansmith857 you rlly made this guys life changing decision lol
Hey ummm some info in the video is wrong I did basic west coast at MCRD but I’m doing ITB at Geiger NC...... and we don’t get bootleave anymore rn due to covid
This video is old. I’ve seen it before
My son left to booth camp yesterday. I was told they implementing extension to infantry school and it will be 6 months starting June, no booth leave 😡😡😡
@@yanuliky8626 tough shit I’m at ITB right now and we’re the last batch of the regular 8 weeks instead of the new training schedule
Ok Boot!
My son reports to camp Geiger tomorrow
I’ve heard that ITB is just the crucible on steroids, and that MCT is the same thing but alot easier, but knowing my drill instructors they probably just want to scare everyone into thinking the worst case scenario, even then the crucible was easy light work
Do you need Gcses for Boot camp,What if you fail your Gcses then are ypu allowed to join them.
2001 for this old Devil Dog. Get some.
MCT and SOI are two different things, MCT for non infantry and SOI, (school of INFANTRY) for infantry
Nope. Soi contains both mct for not infantry mos and itb infantry training battalion for infantry. I’m currently in mct
Correct.
1st Battalion Delta Co Parris Island 1997@@Nero_-lc8ll
SOI (School of Infantry) is divided into two parts: MCT and IMC (formerly known as ITB). Anyone with an MOS of 03xx will attend IMC (Infantry Marine Course), but if you have an MOS other than 03xx you will attend MCT (Marine Combat Training). Both schools teach every Marine how to be a rifleman because every Marine is considered a rifleman but not every rifleman is considered a Marine.
@@Nero_-lc8ll Correct.
If I go to San Diego marine corps as a 0311 will I be sent to camp peloton? After boot camp
This hurts watching. So many lasering going on. I was always told in urban combat to always look for work that means muzzle pointing to where you are scanning looking in windows on all levels where the potential threats could be.
It look like that those M16A4 are the RO901 version beccause i heart some automatic shot
Actually female go to MCRD San Diego now and SOI West
@ 11:03 he calls her sir lol
Sergeant
W video
I really hope who is giving commands at 0:50 is not an instructor because they need to fix his trigger discipline. NEVER LEAVE YOUR HAND OFF THE TRIGGER. Non-Trigger Hand for Signals only. Congrats he kept his eye on the target. He'll watch what happens while he can't react immediately -_- It's like watching American Sniper Movie where they have Bradley Cooper as the Actor, during the scene to help the Marines kick down doors, gives the breaching signal with his firing hand. Horrible demonstrations
1, 2, 3, 4, United States Marine Corps!
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The Combat Instructor at 5:31 was the worst. She made us do some stupid stuff in the field
"Marine, what is your sole purpose in life"?
to clean the head and sweep and mop the floors.
@@iplayfoofee3547 - clean head or give head?? 😂😂
ITB GANG!!
The 10 days of leave is a lie
MCT? really? 1month ALL Marines do despite their MOS . Massive Complete waste of Time (as we said during MCT) 0331
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Oh yea - same sane Gieger 1964.... tuffen them up - HaHa!!!
Do female Marines still have lower physical standards than their male counterparts?
I went in ‘91. Weird seeing female marines there.
As it is said, nothing is constant but change.
This is hotel company I know ssgt Alexander
geiger tigers and wookies for the win
That’s my sister loool
Towards you? LOL
This is ITB now lol.
No, MCT. You didn't know that all Marines go to SOI after boot camp? MCT or ITB.
MCT🤣
POG nation
I went to MCT before Infantry School and didn't think much about it. It was not like it was hard in any way, and neither was Infantry school hard I was a 0331.
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POGs
lol Don't hate that they'll get a job after 4 years and all you could get is security guard or cop. You made your bed.
@@coolbreeze2.0-mortemadfasc13 sheesh , unless I take advantage of what’s offered to me like I plan to do. so don’t make broad assumptions
@@marcandaya5006 I’m gonna make sure to not give you my spare change when I see you begging for it
Worst thing in the usmc hands down
ahh good times haha
This is no where close to what MCT is 😂 I’m a grunt went thru ITB has friends in MCT seen the MCT training nothing like this also they only get issued m16. Also they were flagging each other hard in the first video segment shown. I grad ITB not too long ago
Boot
Boot
Shut up boot
Two weeks long than Army actual infantry training. Just saying haha SF army bros lol
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Marine Corps Infantry
Techniques really Sucks
The U.S. Army doesn't know what
It's doing either
and you know better somehow, than the only 2 major combative branches lol
@@hooded6735
Marine Corps was great during
Iwo Jima but after that not
Too good
There was A lot arguing
As too how effective they
Where combating Insurgency
In Fallujah, Iraq
And the U.S. Army Rangers
Just spend most of there
Time Babysitting Delta Force
In Afghanistan
Not like they are in training and have never done this before
You have no idea what you are talking about bro
JV cool story
It use to be called ITS when I went through in 1979, Semper Fi 🫡🇺🇸
Only positive things created by God and a body disciplined in positive activities can destroy negative energy.
Positive things:- Green vegetables, wood, leaves, soil, nature, environment, animals, etc.
Positive activities:- Respect for things, conservation, cooperation, complete solution.
Warriors, the era of providing support and cooperation to this land with sacred flow has begun 🙂✊🇺🇸