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Marines with the Advanced Infantryman, Machine Gunner, Mortarman, Assaultman and Anti-Tank Missileman courses conduct the Final Field Exercise, a live-fire exercise which engages the students’ leadership abilities by allowing them a degree of flexibility in planning and accomplishing a company-wide mission. The courses introduce students to advanced concepts, new technology, techniques tactics and procedures through classroom instruction, lecture, practical application, field training, and live fire exercises. Marines with the Advanced Infantryman, Machine Gunner, Mortarman, Assaultman and Anti-Tank Missileman courses conduct the Final Field Exercise, a live-fire exercise which engages the students’ leadership abilities by allowing them a degree of flexibility in planning and accomplishing a company-wide mission. The courses introduce students to advanced concepts, new technology, techniques tactics and procedures through classroom instruction, lecture, practical application, field training, and live fire exercises. Marines with the Advanced Infantryman, Machine Gunner, Mortarman, Assaultman and Anti-Tank Missileman courses conduct the Final Field Exercise, a live-fire exercise which engages the students’ leadership abilities by allowing them a degree of flexibility in planning and accomplishing a company-wide mission. The courses introduce students to advanced concepts, new technology, techniques tactics and procedures through classroom instruction, lecture, practical application, field training, and live fire exercises.
Marines with the Advanced Infantryman, Machine Gunner, Mortarman, Assaultman and Anti-Tank Missileman courses conduct the Final Field Exercise, a live-fire exercise which engages the students’ leadership abilities by allowing them a degree of flexibility in planning and accomplishing a company-wide mission. The courses introduce students to advanced concepts, new technology, techniques tactics and procedures through classroom instruction, lecture, practical application, field training, and live fire exercises. Marines with the Advanced Infantryman, Machine Gunner, Mortarman, Assaultman and Anti-Tank Missileman courses conduct the Final Field Exercise, a live-fire exercise which engages the students’ leadership abilities by allowing them a degree of flexibility in planning and accomplishing a company-wide mission. The courses introduce students to advanced concepts, new technology, techniques tactics and procedures through classroom instruction, lecture, practical application, field training, and live fire exercises. Marines with the Advanced Infantryman, Machine Gunner, Mortarman, Assaultman and Anti-Tank Missileman courses conduct the Final Field Exercise, a live-fire exercise which engages the students’ leadership abilities by allowing them a degree of flexibility in planning and accomplishing a company-wide mission. The courses introduce students to advanced concepts, new technology, techniques tactics and procedures through classroom instruction, lecture, practical application, field training, and live fire exercises. MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP PENDLETON, Calif.
The cadenced crack of machine guns and assault rifle fire echoed through the ravines, punctuated by deafening explosions made by improvised Bangalore torpedoes and shoulder-launched multipurpose assault weapons. The final field exercise was an orchestra of firepower, and the students of the Advanced Infantry Courses were the conductors.
The Advanced Infantryman, Machine Gunner, Mortarman, Assaultman and Anti-Tank Missileman courses introduce students to advanced concepts, new technology, techniques tactics and procedures through classroom instruction, lecture, practical application, field training, and live fire exercises. “We give them the necessary tools to lead and more gainfully employ their Marines in the operating forces,” said Staff Sgt. Cody Waldroup, Chief Instructor for the Advanced Assaultman Course and Advanced Antitank Course, Infantry Unit Leaders Training Company, Advanced Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry-West. “They learn and refine advanced tactics, land navigation, close air support and weapons systems.” “Instead of working by themselves, the students also learn to integrate with Marines from other infantry military occupational specialties at a higher level,” added Waldroup. The course culminates in a live-fire exercise which engages the students’ leadership abilities by allowing them a degree of flexibility in planning and accomplishing a company-wide mission. “They get to see timing and sequencing across the board, work together with the other MOS’s, cross-communicate and see what everyone can bring to the table,” said Capt.
Brian Hubert, Executive Officer, IULTC. “It’s a complex exercise.” During the exercise, each student had a specific role to play depending on their MOS.
Mortarmen commenced the attack by providing indirect fire support, allowing the combined anti-armor team to establish a base of fire and start shelling targets with their 50 caliber and M240B machine guns. This allowed the maneuver element to move into their assault positions. From there, they used demolitions to breach and attack the company objective using small-arms.
Coordinating and de-conflicting each unit’s actions was vital to the students’ success due to the complexity of the exercise and the different fire support assets involved. “The students are going from one or two deployments into a leadership role and they need to understand how to use different indirect fire support assets at a company level,” said Hubert.
“We emphasize the need to make sure the desired effect on the battlefield is achieved before they proceed with the attack.” The courses last from five to seven weeks depending on the MOS, and train junior Marines and NCOs to become squad or section leaders when they get back to the fleet. 'I don’t have as much experience working with the other MOS’s and it’s been challenging,” said Cpl. Richard Bork, an assaultman and section leader participating in the course. “But we’ve been able to build unit cohesion and integrate with each other, which in turn allowed us to overcome challenges in training.” “I believe it has improved my confidence and my ability to lead Marines in the fleet,” added Bork.
Marines attending the Infantry Officer Course conduct fast-rope training near Yuma, Ariz., on March 26, 2015. Twenty-nine women attempted IOC as part of the Pentagon’s research into where women should be integrated in combat units, but none passed. Photo by Lance Cpl. Graves/ Marine Corps) The Marine Corps opened its grueling Infantry Officer Course to women in 2012, part of the Pentagon’s effort to assess how it should integrate female service members into more jobs. The assessment is now closing to volunteers on schedule with a stark statistic: Women who have tried the course so far are 0 for 29. The Infantry Officer Course (IOC) that began April 2 included two women who fell short during its initial Combat Endurance Test (CET). The endurance test is the initial phase of IOC, a daunting test of physical strength and will that includes an obstacle course, grueling hikes through Quantico’s wooded hills and assessments of skills like weapons assembly and land navigation.
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Nine of the 90 men who attempted the most recent course — 10 percent — also were cut during the endurance test, said Capt. Maureen Krebs, a Marine Corps spokeswoman. The news, will be used as evidence by those who think there is no place for female officers in the all-male infantry, in particular. The research is part of a three-year project mandated in January 2012 by then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta, who said the services must integrate women into all jobs by 2016, or request exceptions based on rigorous analysis. The Marine struggled to find enough volunteers to further their research, eventually changing the criteria last summer to allow seasoned lieutenants and captains to attempt IOC as long as they completed the male version of the service’s annual fitness test, which requires at least five pull-ups, and a combat fitness test. Julia Carroll eats a small meal after a six-hour patrol during enlisted infantry training in October 2013.
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She was one of the first three women to graduate from the course. (Photo by Sgt. Main/ Marine Corps) At Quantico, women who want to be ground intelligence officers will still be allowed to attempt the Infantry Officer Course (IOC), and must pass it to get the job. The position — which isn’t in the infantry, but frequently works alongside it — was, but no woman has passed the prerequisites to do so. The Marines also opened infantry training for enlisted troops to women in 2013, and they have fared better. As of February 2015, 358 women had volunteered, and 122 (34 percent) have graduated, said Krebs.
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Those who have completed it so far have gone through only on an experimental basis, and will not be allowed to be infantrymen. Other parts of the military have handled their research differently — especially the Army and U.S.
Special Operations Command. Beginning April 20, the Army will allow women who have completed a difficult preliminary course to try Army Ranger School. The women will be allowed in on a one-time basis as part of the research. If they pass, they’ll be allowed to wear the coveted Ranger tab, but they will not serve in the Army’s elite 75th Ranger Regiment.
So far, 12 women have passed the prerequisite Ranger Training and Assessment Course (RTAC), with one more round to go. Special Operations Command, meanwhile, about whether women should be allowed to serve and found some skepticism. Like the conventional force, its leaders will have to present a convincing case to senior Pentagon leaders if it wants to keep women out of certain jobs.