Midwest Marines from across Wisconsin, northern Illinois, and Michigan's Upper Peninsula held their annual family nights last week. During these annual events, actual Marine Corps drill instructors provide a small, but intense taste of recruit training for those getting ready for recrit training and their families. A question and answer period helps calm anxious nerves -- for parents, anyway.
This video was shot in Appleton, Wis., April 29, 2010.
We had a blast last week with St. Louis and Milwaukee educators in San Diego getting a first-hand look at what training and life are like for Marines, as you can tell from the photos below and the webcasts on our sister site.
Chicago & Kansas City educators are at boot camp in San Diego this week, so feel free to post questions here that you’d like to ask educators from your area about their experience, and we’ll do our best to get answers from them for you. Of course, stay tuned for their stories.
For a brief overview of the program, see the video below, or get details on upcoming Midwest Marines Educators Workshops for educators and members of the news media.
Midwest high school educators overran the bayonet assault course at Marine Corps boot camp in San Diego Tuesday. More than half of the 70 Midwest Marines Educators Workshop participants from Milwaukee and St. Louis screamed, ran, crawled, crossed rope bridges, climbed walls and bayoneted dummies amidst the sights and sounds of battle during the week-long program that makes them experts on Marine Corps basics.
Here's what it sounded like for a four-person team from Illinois and Missouri, which also seemed to have a pretty good time.
Want more? See photos of other educators going through the Bayonet Assault Course.
High school teachers, counselors, coaches and administrators from Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri and Illinois started the first two minutes of the Midwest Marines Educators Workshop this morning in San Diego just like recruits would experience the first two minutes of Marine Corps boot camp before spending time with Brig. Gen. Ronald L. Bailey, responsible for all recruiting and recruit training west of the Mississippi River (more on black Marine officers here). After talking candidly with recruits from the Midwest over lunch, they finished the day by actually running through an assualt course with rifles and bayonets. We'll try to get some interviews up later tonight or tomorrow, but here's what the morning welcome looked like.
An effective "pick-me-up" in the morning for Midwestern educators.
If you would like to participate in an upcoming Midwest Marines Educators Workshop, find out more here.
Michigan, Minnesota, Wisconsin, Missouri and Illinois educators experience boot camp this week, so tune in to our webcast channel starting tomorrow night for their thoughts as the week progresses!
Our educators sponsored by #MidwestMarines recruiting stations in Milwaukee and St. Louis made it safely San Diego today to experience Marine Corps boot camp first hand this week with the Midwest Marines Educators Workshop. Nobody looked disappointed to leave the ice and snow for 65-degree evening temperatures, but Bode Miller’s gold and the US hockey victory over Canada last night didn’t hurt the mood either.
We had a banquet tonight and got to know each other a bit before a full week of long days starts tomorrow exactly where it starts for recruits: on the infamous yellow footprints under the hot breath of a new “guidance counselor.”
I spoke briefly with a couple of educators tonight about their expectations for the week, and they both seemed up to the challenge:
If you would like to participate in an upcoming Midwest Marines Educators Workshop, find out more here.
Want us to ask the educators your questions? Submit them as comments to this post, and we'll ask them the next day!
There's a lot in store for our webcasts through March. Look for the following coming soon:
Stay tuned, and always feel free to submit your ideas.
While this type of action is not recommended, I can’t say it’s surprising either. What’s most impressive about this young Marine is the level of self-discipline he exhibited. He just finished three months of boot camp, to include martial arts training, and is likely in the best shape of his life, yet he exhibited the maturity and judgment to control a heated situation using words alone.
Being reminded how impressive our young Marines are just never gets old. Thanks to KSPR News for covering the story!
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