Educators Workshop Webcast: Bayonet course puts Midwest educators as close to boot camp as you can get without getting your head shaved first

  
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Missouri Educators tackle Bayonet Assault Course during the first Midwest Marines Educators Workshop of 2010.wma (2469 KB)

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From: Eric Tausch
To: Tausch Capt Eric C
Sent: Fri Feb 26 02:22:24 2010
Subject: Educators Workshop Webcast: Bayonet course puts Midwest educators as close to boot camp as you can get without getting your head shaved first

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.

• (Team Leader) Brandon Holthausen is a guidance counselor at Hillsboro High School in Hillsboro, Mo. (south of St. Louis)
• Saeward Jones is a physical education teacher at Marion High School in Marion, Ill.
• Michelle Elwood is a guidance counselor at Marion High School
• Dave Peirce is Hillsboro High School’s Freshman at Risk teacher

 

If you would like to participate in an upcoming Midwest Marines Educators Workshop, find out more here.

 

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Rockford, Ill., educator tells why she attended the Educators Workshop & what she’ll bring back to students

  
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Why Rockford East HS's Laura Lindell went to Educators Workshop and what she's bringing home for students.wma (2387 KB)

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From: Eric Tausch
To: Tausch Capt Eric C
Sent: Fri Feb 26 02:33:04 2010
Subject: Rockford, Ill., educator tells why she attended the Educators Workshop & what she’ll bring back to students

Laura Lendell, a home school counselor at Rockford East High School in Rockford, Ill., spent the week at Marine Corps boot camp in San Diego with 69 other high school teachers, counselors, coaches, principles and faculty members from Wisconsin, Michigan, Minnesota, Illinois and Missouri for the first of four Midwest Marines Educators Workshops.

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Midwest counselors recount highlights of being Marine recruits today

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Laura Lendell, a home school counselor at Rockford East High School in Illinois, and Vikky Winkler, a career specialist for Fond du Lac High School in Wisconsin recount some highlights from their experience in San Diego today as Marine Corps recruits during Day 1 of the Midwest Marines Educators Workshop.

 

 

  
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Vikky and laura on drill instructors.mp3 (1140 KB)

  
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Vikky 1-old principal did not allow and how she decided to go.mp3 (1265 KB)

  
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Laura and vikky discuss martial arts.mp3 (1468 KB)

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Rude awakening today for Midwest educators visiting Marine Corps Boot Camp in San Diego

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.

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Educators Workshop webcasts start tomorrow; submit questions for teachers today!

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: 

• Michael Rupnow, the activities director at Case High School in Racine, Wis., is here with his wife Julie, who is a physical education teacher and department chair at Washington Park High School, also in Racine.
• Bruce Rundman, is a guidance counselor at Baraga High School in Michigan’s Upper Peninsula city of Baraga.

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!

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Repealing DADT: Would this impact decisions in Heartland to join the Marines or recommend service?

How would lifting the ban on openly gay military service affect recruiting and retention in the Midwest?

With top military leaders now endorsing an eventual repeal of the 1993 “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policy, it’s a fair question – perhaps even fairer, more valid, and of more immediate concern than speculating on an individual’s performance in combat based on his or her sexual orientation. Still, it’s a question I’ve only seen asked once in earnest over the past year (and the answer’s still pending). Just as important a question is whether or not lifting the ban would effect decisions for continued service by those already in the ranks.

While a recent New York Times/CBS News poll reflected that a majority of the public supports homosexuals serving openly in the military, a Military Times poll of subscribers indicated that those already in the ranks may have a different opinion. However, neither poll appears to be a valid representative sample of either the American public or the military community.

So here are my questions: How would repealing the ban ...

• ... impact a young person’s decision in the Midwest to serve in the Marine Corps?
• ... affect whether or not Midwestern parents, educators, coaches, and community leaders encourage their sons, daughters, and students to join the Corps?
• ... influence the decision to continue serving for Midwesterners already in the ranks?

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Upcoming webcasts: Midwest educators at boot camp, submit now for Lt. Col. Shea & Marines in the entertainment business

There's a lot in store for our webcasts through March. Look for the following coming soon:

• Midwestern educators comment next week from a visit to Marine Corps boot camp in San Diego
• We're taking your questions right now for combat veteran Lt. Col. Roberta Shea, who has seen it all in 25 years now commands the Corps' only unit that transforms young civilian women into Marines.
• On the Horizon: Is the Marine Corps sneaking into homes and lives through the entertainment industry? Find out for yourself as we talk to the director of the Marine Corps Motion Picture and Television Liaison Office in Los Angeles and the Marine Corps’ assistant chief of staff for advertising in Virginia. We’ll let you know when you can submit your questions.

Stay tuned, and always feel free to submit your ideas.

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