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Scout school is a six week preparatory

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course for our scouts , oh 3 11 in L .

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A . Are traditionally , L . A . R . Is

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kind of a mix of both 3 13 , so L . A .

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V . Crewmen and uh oh 3 11 . So the

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03 11 come out here for scout school

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while the crewmen do more gunnery with

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the vehicles . Um and the overall

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purpose of scouts schools to start them

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off with a basic skill set and

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understanding of orders , writing ,

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machine gun employment , and land

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navigation . And then it'll end with

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the culminating events being pecs which

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we're currently at right now and then

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Effects , which is more of uh sort of

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like instructor style , like hands off

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approach to them making their own

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decisions at the squad level . So this

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helps prepare the junior marines as

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they have not been on a deployment out

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here and kind of gets them really

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thinking at the tactical level . Um and

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it also forces them to hold leadership

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roles that normally they're uh squad

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leader would be in . However , we don't

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bring their squad leaders out here ,

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they serve in the role themselves and

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it allows them to really mature as uh

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you know , lance corporals into that

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team leader position or corporals out

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here into the squad leader position

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that they may have not have held yet .

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And uh they're normal squad . Yeah , I

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would say the biggest thing they get

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out of this that they haven't had

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before is the uh leadership experience

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and um tactical sort of mindset that

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they go from being a team leader to

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squad leader or just a general team

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member to a team leader and having to

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go into the actual planning process

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with orders writing because that's kind

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of a little bit of a shock to them .

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Just right off the bat having stay up

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later writing orders and then really

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plan their own CAS evac routes and

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things like that on these patrols . So

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I would say this school uh impacts the

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Marine corps by contributing to a more

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lethal force . Um Right off the bat .

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These scouts have come out here um done

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really well with their land not really

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well with their machine gun employment

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um developing you know their own

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attacks pulling em sls and everything

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like that . Um And it it further

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develops them as leaders into um roles

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just by giving them more responsibility .

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You know they're doing their own E . G .

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L . Accounts for all their serialized

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equipment . They're taken out there on

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these patrols and the instructors that

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are with them are really just a safety

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backstop . So it uh definitely gives

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them more leadership experience that

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they would anywhere else . Yeah

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absolutely I would say that you know

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without scout school um these guys

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would probably be still helping assist

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with the L . A . P . S . And stuff like

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that which is good . Um But this kind

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of break off from being with the

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traditional uh L . A . R . Platoon

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right now it gives them the chance to

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just hone in on their specific scout

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skills and really really mature in get

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to where they need to be for our

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workout . Yeah everybody out here is

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second L . A . R . Um we have our bravo

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company out here , they just came back

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from their mu um Most of our top four

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are made up of the bravo company um

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team leaders and squad leaders that are

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out here and then we also have a

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separate seabourn platoon that's out

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here , getting some training um doing

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some scouting and patrolling and um

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working really against us , we give

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them a few fragos and they really work

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themselves to kind of get their

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assessment of us as scout school

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and come out and you know interdict our

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actions outside of the patrol base . Uh

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So patrolling is really important

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because it allows like the platoon

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commander to gain intelligence on the

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enemy and his whereabouts

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being area of operations and in

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addition to that helps us keep the

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enemy on their toes kind of second

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guessing like what our actions are and

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denies them the ability to connect

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collect information on us . Um Overall

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it's it's crew