Z-Man Overstreet this isn’t a actual primary MOS, it’s a secondary MOS called 0916 martial arts instructor (MAI). You have to take a 3 week course taught anywhere there is a willing martial arts instructor trainer (MAIT), be a corporal minimum, and have at minimum a green belt. Then you’ll get your tan tab, and you can hold your own MCMAP courses and teach Marines to belt up to the belt color you have. To be an MAIT, you have to be a MAI that goes to the 7 week long course at the Marine Corps Martial Arts Center of Excellence in Quantico, VA, and then you will get your 1st degree (only one) red tab. There are six black belt MAIT red tabs, otherwise known as degrees total, which involve extra coursework outside of getting a black belt and becoming a MAIT itself. I can’t recall if you need to be a black belt to be a MAIT though. I think there’s a gold tab, but it’s only for people that invented MCMAP in the late 90’s/ early 2000’s? Anyway, any job can do MCMAP, and recruits must qualify as tan belts in boot camp as one of their requirements to become a Marine. After that, belting up is on you. The order of belts goes from tan to gray to green to brown to black. Grunts don’t really care about MCMAP as much as other Marines do, and that’s because their job involves killing people before you get in hand to hand distance, or, at least using a bayonet or weapon of opportunity (some Marines care about MCMAP though). College is also not required, although having some college under your belt/ doing college while in is a great thing. Really, all you have to do is know a MAI that is teaching a class, show up with the proper gear (boots and utes, no necklace or dog tags, flak without sapis, camelback, mouthpiece), and pass up a very basic screening form through the chain of command. I think the rule was something like 1 MAI can teach a maximum of 15 Marines or something like that-anymore Marines and you’d need another MAI, etc. I think for grappling you have to do it in a dojo (rubber tire pit) and you have to have a corpsman present to supervise. Most MAI’s don’t actually make you spar either. If you’re lucky, you’ll get on a week long gentleman’s course. If you’re unlucky, you’ll be put on the regular 3 week, early as fuck in the morning hazefest. You go off a syllabus that lists the appropriate techniques per each belt level, and after you earn a belt, you usually (but not always) have to prove you practiced those techniques on your own time in the form of sustainment hours that you have to write down in a log your MAI should provide you. Real martial arts require more than 3 weeks and some sustainment time between belts. The biggest problem with MCMAP is there are too many obscure techniques with 5 million steps you have to remember that it’s not that effective in a real situation. To make matters worse, most MAIs and MAITs lead by the traditional Marine Corps mindset of “work harder, not smarter”, and they will pt the shit out of you in the form of so-called combat conditioning. That doesn’t mean they focus on functional fitness or other aspects of actual exercise science, but rather, you doing a bunch of exercises over and over again until they get tired. Some units or even bases can go without an available MAI/ MAIT for quite some time. MCMAP should be more simple, and focus on actual sparring and ground fighting like regular, legitimate martial arts. It’s really a mashup of techniques from a bunch of different martial arts that some officers thought would be good to try and cover all the bases for their Marines. A lot of the scenarios they teach are stationary and assume your opponent will just stand there and not fight back. This is why many Marines, including grunts, aren’t super crazy about mcmap. It’s more so a cheap and effective way to teach DECENT techniques while making sure your Marines are occupied, in somewhat of a good shape, and cultivate their warrior spirit. If you don’t love mcmap but you have nothing else to do, or you’re a tan or gray belt, or pure trying to improve yourself, belt up. Other than that, focus on something else like PME, college, MCIs, MOS courses, etc. Green or brown belt is a good place to stop if you join and decide you think it’s gay. But don’t let me demotivate you from going for black, or a tab. Mcmap also gets you out of regular morning pt if your unit holds it during the morning lol. All in all, use mcmap to your advantage to instill confidence, build your career through accolades, and experience new things, but realize that it isn’t the best martial art ever just because Marines do it. You can google each belt’s syllabus, video demonstrations, and the sustainment hours log. I hope this helps.
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Went through the MAIC in 2003! Semper Fi Marines.
Was MCMAP more lethal back then?
@@PlayfulWithIt Probably not since MCMAP came out in 2002. It's been refined a lot since then.
I've been wanting to do this course for years. Maybe one day!
Nice to see this, love it, you learn and you have to much fun that’s wonderful
Looks like fun
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One mind any weapon Marine Corps martial arts makes true legit warriors stay ready for the challenge semper fi marines
Do I need to be in infantry or college before choosing this as my MOS.
Z-Man Overstreet this isn’t a actual primary MOS, it’s a secondary MOS called 0916 martial arts instructor (MAI). You have to take a 3 week course taught anywhere there is a willing martial arts instructor trainer (MAIT), be a corporal minimum, and have at minimum a green belt. Then you’ll get your tan tab, and you can hold your own MCMAP courses and teach Marines to belt up to the belt color you have. To be an MAIT, you have to be a MAI that goes to the 7 week long course at the Marine Corps Martial Arts Center of Excellence in Quantico, VA, and then you will get your 1st degree (only one) red tab. There are six black belt MAIT red tabs, otherwise known as degrees total, which involve extra coursework outside of getting a black belt and becoming a MAIT itself. I can’t recall if you need to be a black belt to be a MAIT though. I think there’s a gold tab, but it’s only for people that invented MCMAP in the late 90’s/ early 2000’s? Anyway, any job can do MCMAP, and recruits must qualify as tan belts in boot camp as one of their requirements to become a Marine. After that, belting up is on you. The order of belts goes from tan to gray to green to brown to black. Grunts don’t really care about MCMAP as much as other Marines do, and that’s because their job involves killing people before you get in hand to hand distance, or, at least using a bayonet or weapon of opportunity (some Marines care about MCMAP though). College is also not required, although having some college under your belt/ doing college while in is a great thing. Really, all you have to do is know a MAI that is teaching a class, show up with the proper gear (boots and utes, no necklace or dog tags, flak without sapis, camelback, mouthpiece), and pass up a very basic screening form through the chain of command. I think the rule was something like 1 MAI can teach a maximum of 15 Marines or something like that-anymore Marines and you’d need another MAI, etc. I think for grappling you have to do it in a dojo (rubber tire pit) and you have to have a corpsman present to supervise. Most MAI’s don’t actually make you spar either. If you’re lucky, you’ll get on a week long gentleman’s course. If you’re unlucky, you’ll be put on the regular 3 week, early as fuck in the morning hazefest. You go off a syllabus that lists the appropriate techniques per each belt level, and after you earn a belt, you usually (but not always) have to prove you practiced those techniques on your own time in the form of sustainment hours that you have to write down in a log your MAI should provide you. Real martial arts require more than 3 weeks and some sustainment time between belts. The biggest problem with MCMAP is there are too many obscure techniques with 5 million steps you have to remember that it’s not that effective in a real situation. To make matters worse, most MAIs and MAITs lead by the traditional Marine Corps mindset of “work harder, not smarter”, and they will pt the shit out of you in the form of so-called combat conditioning. That doesn’t mean they focus on functional fitness or other aspects of actual exercise science, but rather, you doing a bunch of exercises over and over again until they get tired. Some units or even bases can go without an available MAI/ MAIT for quite some time. MCMAP should be more simple, and focus on actual sparring and ground fighting like regular, legitimate martial arts. It’s really a mashup of techniques from a bunch of different martial arts that some officers thought would be good to try and cover all the bases for their Marines. A lot of the scenarios they teach are stationary and assume your opponent will just stand there and not fight back. This is why many Marines, including grunts, aren’t super crazy about mcmap. It’s more so a cheap and effective way to teach DECENT techniques while making sure your Marines are occupied, in somewhat of a good shape, and cultivate their warrior spirit. If you don’t love mcmap but you have nothing else to do, or you’re a tan or gray belt, or pure trying to improve yourself, belt up. Other than that, focus on something else like PME, college, MCIs, MOS courses, etc. Green or brown belt is a good place to stop if you join and decide you think it’s gay. But don’t let me demotivate you from going for black, or a tab. Mcmap also gets you out of regular morning pt if your unit holds it during the morning lol. All in all, use mcmap to your advantage to instill confidence, build your career through accolades, and experience new things, but realize that it isn’t the best martial art ever just because Marines do it. You can google each belt’s syllabus, video demonstrations, and the sustainment hours log. I hope this helps.
@@cm-pr2ys Thanks!👍
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