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This course is designed to train and educate instructors in the leadership, knowledge and skills required to formally train Marines in Marine Corps Common Skills. The student to instructor ratio is about 7:1; the instructor staff is composed of Staff Sergeants and Gunnery Sergeants.

A general overview of the course:

  • 458 Academic Hours

  • 60 Physical Training Hours

  • 50 Kilometers of Hikes

  • 103 Performance Evaluations

  • 8 Written Examinations

The curriculum includes the following subjects:

  • Individual & Crew Served Weapons (M4, M9, M203, M249, M67, M240, and AT-4)

  • Land Navigation

  • Combat Conditioning

  • Marine Corps Martial Arts Program Sustainment

  • Cardiopulmonary Resuscitation and TCCC

  • Offensive and Defensive Techniques

  • Combat Hunter

  • Scouting and Patrolling

  • School of Infantry Standard Operating Procedures (SOP)

  • Leadership

  • MOUT/Immediate Actions

  • Combat Marksmanship

  • Formal Schools Instructor Course

  • Drill a Unit 

  • Optics

  • IED Training

  • ECP/VCP and Guardian Angel

  • PERRES (Performance Resiliency Program)

  • Communications

 

 

 

  

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