Ok, Just starting to gather some of the basics ... lots to learn
Pick Up = Day Recruit meets his DI staff and is assigned into his platoon also known as Black FridayPT = Physical Training
MCMAP = Marine Corps Martial Arts ProgramStrikes, Punches, Chokes, Counter Punches are all a part of MCMAP
CCX = Combat Conditioning Exercise
WFTBN = Weapons and Field Training Batallion
Where our Recruits go for rifle qualification and Crucible
BAC = Bayonet Attack Course
PFT = Physical Fitness Test
SATO = Scheduled Airline Travel Office On Depot travel agency
CO CMDR = Company Commander
Bn CMDR = Batallion Commander
Int = Interior
Prev Mnt = Preventative Maintenance
Terrorism AWR = Terrorism Awareness
Cond = Conditioning
Maint = Maintenance
Innocs = Innoculations
IMM = Intergrated Material Management
REMED = Remedial
End = Endurance
SOP = Standard Operating Procedures
BWT = Basic Warrior Training
IND = Individual
EST = Estimation
EX = Exercise
MOUT = Military Operations in Urban Terrain
SRB = Service Record Book
T1 = Training Day 1
P = Processing
F = Forming
H = House Days
1 recruit training REGIMENT
in the REMIMENT there are 3 BATTALIONS (1rst, 2nd, & 3rd - PI 4th Battalion for the ladies)
Each BATTALION has 4 companies (except PI Battalion 4 has 3 companies November, Oscar, Papa)
In each Company there are PLATOONS
All people in one COMPANY will graduate on one date, but there are generally 500 recruits going through at the same time.(less in the winter).
Or another interpretatioin
The Company designation can be explained from the menu on the left.
Under USMC - Regiment you can see the "Structure" that this comes under.http://www.marineparents.com/USMC/usmc-regiment.aspMCRD SD is the Recruit Training Regiment ....
That is for all of MCRD SD...The Regiment is made up of Batallions (3 at MCRD SD)
Each Batallion is made up of Companies (12 Companies at MCRD SD)
1st Recruit Training Batallion consists of Alpha CompanyBravo CompanyCharlie CompanyDelta Company
2nd Recruit Training Batallion consists of Echo CompanyFox CompanyGolf CompanyHotel Company
3rd Recruit Training Batallion (batallion color is Yellow) consists of India CompanyKilo CompanyLima CompanyMike Company
At MCRD Parris Island there is a 4th Batallion for our Lady Recruits consisting ofOscar CompanyNovember CompanyPapa Company
At MCRD SD the Company consists of 8 platoons (usually)
The Company is broken into 2 series - the first 4 platoons of a company are one series the next 4 platoons are the other series (this was the case with Darren's Company and may vary in the number of platoons)
Platoon numbers for 1st Batallion start with 1 as in 1004
Platoon numbers for 2nd Batallion start with 2
Platoon numbers for 3rd Batallion start with 3
Platoon numbers for 4th Batallion start with 4
Here are just nosey details you might find interesting...
There are 4 Recruits to a Fire Team
There are 3 Fire Teams to a Squad
The number of Squads to a Platoon depends on how many Recruits are in the platoon
posted by Ann Marie @ 2/20/2008 07:27:00 AM
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