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- So the mission of Fox Company is the same as

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Marine Combat Training Battalion, it's to train

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^Marines and basic infantry SEALs to prepare them

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^for deployment in the operating forces out there

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^in the fleet Marine force.

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Here at Fox Company,

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(machine gun fire)

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I kind of like to just stress to take that

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a little bit further with our combat structure

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with the Marines, is just kind of try to

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teach them how to fight, is what we do.

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We kind of face the challenge here of taking these

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guys when they come out of high school

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and they're not familiar with this.

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A lot of them signed up to be truck drivers

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or intelligence Marines, or radio operators

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and stuff, and we take them and teach them

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the infantry side of the house so they can go

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be successful.

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(machine gun fires)

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^- It bridges the gap between recruit training

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^and their primary MOS school.

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^And the overall goal of MCT is to ensure that students

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possess the requisite knowledge with basic

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infantry weapons, infantry field craft,

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and the knowledge in items such as communications,

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hand grenades, the employment of the 203,

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the M240 Bravo machine gun, so that when they

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potentially find themselves out there in the fleet,

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and they're in combat operations, they have the

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requisite knowledge to survive on the battlefield

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and be able to do their job successfully in

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support of the ground combat element.