Marines


Marine Combat Training Battalion
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School of Infantry - East
Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina

The Marine Combat Training Battalion-East conducts standards-based common combat skills training of entry-level Marines in order to create riflemen for service throughout the Marine Corps.

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Upon completing the rigorous 29-day Combat Training, Marines will graduate aboard Camp Geiger where they will receive their Certification. Post graduation, Marines will depart to their follow on Military Occupational Schools.

Every Marine, regardless of his military occupation, is trained as a Rifleman. This concept has been around since the Marine Corps inception in 1775, when every man who volunteered was required to bring his own musket.

In the early 1900s, as the Marine Corps grew and additional military occupations were created, the Commandant, General John A. Lejeune, ensured that every Marine, regardless of his Military Occupational Specialty (MOS), received marksmanship training.

During the Korean War, the Marine Corps was the only service to create rifle companies entirely from cooks, drivers, and other non-infantry Marines. From this war, the proverbial saying, Every Marine a Rifleman was born.

In the nineteen eighties, the Commandant, General Al Gray, recognized the need to train all Marines in more than just basic marksmanship, but in modern-day combat skills. The School of Infantry was assigned to conduct this training known as Common Skills because it is common to every Marine. These common skills allow every Marine, regardless of MOS, to act as Rifleman when called upon.

Officer of the Day
Cell: 910-376-5668

S-1 Administration
Phone: 910-449-0428/0395

S-3 Battalion Operations
Phone: 910-449-4946
 
Marine Combat Training Battalion SAPR VA
SSgt Gourlay GOLF CO
Sgt Kutt HOTEL CO
Sgt Middendorf INDIA CO
SSgt Deswert KILO CO    

Camp Lejeune, NC 24/7 Sexual Assault Support Line
Phone: 910-750-5852

Marine Combat Training Leadership

LtCol M. F. Clevenger
Commanding Officer

LtCol Clevenger is from Phoenix, AZ.  He was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Marine Corps

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SgtMaj A. D. Vega
Command Senior Enlisted Leader

Sergeant Major Anthony D. Vega is a native of El Paso, Texas and volunteered to serve in the United

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