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Marine Corps Infantry Squad Education

August 5, 2008 By admin

The recognized Infantry experts in the United States Military Service is the US Marine Corps. They are the service that wrote the book on Infantry procedures, as well as the service that created a school for infantry, battlefield and infantry squad leaders. They work with soldiers at every level to teach the basics of infantry service, and the US Military Squad leaders are simply the best-trained infantry leaders in the world, bar none. They run the US Marine Corps Infantry School, which was specifically designed to teach and instruct young Marine Corps enlisted and commissioned leaders how to be the very best at Infantry squad operations.

Every member of the Marine Corp is given basic infantry and rifleman skills. The Marine Corps is the service in the United States Military that literally wrote the book on Infantry and battlefield infantry operations. The ISLC training is designed to teach not only leadership but also show the potential Squad. The Infantry Squad Leaders course takes a Marine and gives them training and skills as a noncommissioned officer, giving them active leadership and infantry skills to function as a disciplined leader. The ISLC training teaches a Marine candidate to lead a 12-man squad. It is designed to instruct and teach young Marines to lead and perform duties as Infantry Squad Leaders. The School is located at Camp Pendleton, California. Leader how to instruct advanced tactics and rifle squad procedures to yield a well-disciplined and trained close knit 12 man rifle team. Each of the ISLC trainees are a member of a training team, a four man squad that learns in action the skill sets and procedures necessary. Each of the training teams has a M-249 rifleman, a Rifleman, an assistant rifleman, and a leader. They have established a school for teaching soldiers how to be Infantry leaders, called the Marine Corps improved Infantry School. The ISLC training program is 38 days long and from the very start it is conducted at a brisk and challenging pace. Every Marine Corps enlisted person is a rifleman, and the training starts in boot camp with infantry rifleman skills. The skills and tactics taught at the Marine Infantry Squad Leader course include infantry and battlefield skills, a myriad variety of the necessary types of training to be an effective military Infantry Squad Leader.

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The courses are varied but the main one is called the Marine Corps Infantry Squad Leaders Course and it is constructed to teach the basics and advanced infantry tactics and procedures.

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