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Recruit Elvis P. Nguyen, Echo Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, practices the kneeling position during Grass Week at Edson Range, Weapons and Field Training Battalion, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Sept. 9. The recruits spent one week learning about the different fundamentals of firing. Today, all males recruited from west of the Mississippi are trained at MCRD San Diego. The depot is responsible for training more than 16,000 recruits annually. Echo Company is scheduled to graduate Oct. 30.
150909-M-YO010-002.JPG Photo By: Lance Cpl. Angelica I. Annastas

Sep 14, 2015
Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif. - Recruit Elvis P. Nguyen, Echo Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, practices the kneeling position during Grass Week at Edson Range, Weapons and Field Training Battalion, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Sept. 9. The recruits spent one week learning about the different fundamentals of firing. Today, all males recruited from west of the Mississippi are trained at MCRD San Diego. The depot is responsible for training more than 16,000 recruits annually. Echo Company is scheduled to graduate Oct. 30.


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