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All right . Tom guests

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up the combat instructors from the

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School of Infantry East went toe to toe

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in a grueling test of their martial

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skills and physical endurance . The

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april competition was a face off

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between instructors from the various

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student companies at Camp Geiger this

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year's participants agreed . The course

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was no joke . Even for the hardened

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combat instructors , my body didn't

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really know what was going on . All I

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knew is like with everything , it's

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just a full combat load and it just

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throw my mind for a whole loop . It

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hurts . I mean , it's not , we're not

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invincible . You know , we don't eat

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that much . We don't , we don't drink

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that much . We're constantly on the

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students and trying to help them . So

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your body hurts it again , you gotta

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put it aside because what you're doing

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is bigger than yourself . So you gotta

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put them above before you . And that's

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what , that's what keeps me going .

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You're similar driving forward under

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the brutal north Carolina son , The

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instructors endured a conditioning

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movement with full gear , employed

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various weapon platforms while under

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stress and successfully completed a

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battery of knowledge tests . The

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instructors also had to demonstrate

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mastery of the internal mechanics for

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the Marine Corps's weaponry . Clear

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Good . You try to get them as much

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hands on the weapon system as they

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possibly can because you don't know a

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weapon until you actually put your

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hands on it . The one to actually train

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students regardless of your mos . With

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0311 or what not the way the conflicts

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are going in our world today , it's not

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just oh threes , they're on the

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frontlines . Every mos is out there so

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we can remedy that at the lowest level .

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So as they grow up in the Marine Corps ,

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then they'll actually have the

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knowledge they need to be effective in

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the fight . Every Marine is trained as

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a rifleman . The instructors that

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prepare the next generation for combat ,

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employ tested experience and their own

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occupational skills , providing a broad

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range of experience to their students ,

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reporting from Marine Corps Base Camp ,

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Lejeune , I'm lance corporal paul

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Peterson .