USMC Manual Close Combat MCRP 3-02B

UNITED STATES MARINE CORPS

Manual - Close Combat (MCRP 3-02B)

• Overview of Close Combat
• 1 - Fundamentals of Close Combat
• 2 - Lethal and Nonlethal Weapons Techniques
• 3 - Hand-held Weapons
• 4 - Strikes
• 5 - Throws
• 6 - Chokes and Holds
• 7 - Ground Fighting
• 8 - Nonlethal Techniques
• Appendix A - Pugil Stick Training
• Appendix B - Safety Precautions During Training

Marine Corp Martial Arts Molds Marine

When one Marine began wrestling in grade school, he never thought one day he would take his mat skills into the Marine Corps.

Corporal Chris Galliher, from Spokane, Wash., earned a place on the Marine Corps Fight Team with those skills and now aspires to become a black belt instructor trainer.

To help prepare himself for the seven-week instructor trainer course in Quantico, Va., Galliher trains at an on-base gym every day during lunch and after work before attending daily jiu jitsu and mixed martial arts classes at a gym in town.

Galliher continues to better himself in every aspect of fighting, from technique repetition to cardio training despite his coach’s belief that he is over-training.

Marines Train using Martial Arts for Combat Mindset

It was 8 a.m. and the company first sergeant was not sitting at the company office. Combat camera Marines weren’t at their usual desks in the basement of Building 1 here, taking work orders for U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific. Pacific Command was missing a Marine noncommissioned officer. They weren’t the only Marines away from their usual work spaces.
There were 21 Marines and one Sailor going blow for blow in the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program room here Nov. 16 as a part of a MCMAP class, Nov. 14-23.

The Marines who chose to participate in the course arrive every weekday morning to be told what their training will entail, anything from conditioning exercises to sparring. During the course, they are tested physically and mentally.