A Rare Look Inside A Marine Combat Training Camp At Camp Lejeune | Megyn Kelly TODAY
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- Over the summer, Megyn Kelly got a rare look inside Marine combat training at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. There she joined recruits in rising before dawn for a 5K hike, breakfasting in the mess hall and tackling an obstacle course. “We have each other’s back,” one recruit tells her.
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A Rare Look Inside A Marine Boot Camp At Camp Lejeune | Megyn Kelly TODAY
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If men and women can hold the same combat roles they should both be held to the exact same physical fitness test requirements.
LOL!
Amen
Exactly. That's why I'm training to pass the men's requirements. I'll be old enough to enlist in three years. I need to be able to run three miles in twenty five minutes, at the most, deadlift at least my entire body weight, everything else should be good to go.
Sandman Huffmaster that lower morale, stfu
If it were only that way.
“We have each other’s backs” you know how many times I’ve had someone snitch on me or a buddy get snitched on? Haha what a boot
bamarocks777 exactly lol
Yeah man, guaranteed these guys would throw each other under the bus in a hot minute.
Like my drill instructor said there are service men who would step on your neck just to get a promotion
bamarocks777 we’re supposed to “police each other” right?? 🙃
bamarocks777 - reading the comments section proves your point. Marines arguing with Marines and calling each other names. It appears you hit the proverbial nail on the head.
Marine infantry units were clearly too extreme and not PC to show on television, they had to stick with the POGs. The POG image is daytime TV friendly.
Especially if it was ITS at Camp Geiger in the early 80's. NO SNOWFLAKES ALLOWED!
I remember supplying fuel to military units on my 2 deployments to Iraq. My first deployment we were in the southern part of Iraq sleeping in crappy 2 man tents in the middle of the desert. A few grunts came by and were shocked by the crappy conditions we were living in. I didn't seem to mind it. Got much respect for the Infantry, but even pogs have it crappy too. I know they appreciated us being out there, without fuel their vehicles weren't going anywhere. Semper Fi!
Rah 0311 for life
there is the marines and then there is the marine infantry. two diffrent species
Not even, ITB is only like 30 more days than MCT. They also get liberty and their phones. Their PT isn't the worst, I'm an 0621 and I still did 7 mile flack runs.
Still a pog tough
Ralph Riffle one of our Company Hq clerks was a POG during the Evacuation of Saigon also at Tan Son Nhut Airport during a firefight. When the VC (VietCong) and NVA(North Vietnam Army) were shooting at us, they could care less if we were a Infantry Marine or a POG Marine. Yes Infantry are trained more for combat but our clerk (POG) did well. Always remember a Marine is a Marine no matter what MOS. Signed Old Marine Sgt 1973-1977, Semper Fi
Stu Chainz how's your mos, I'm going in as comms as well I leave for training in 18 days
awsome.
"These RECRUITS have just finished 13 weeks of boot camp" 🤦
Yeeeah that put a thorn in my caw... like ffs reporter.
I caught it too. Major oopsie wrong no-no.
lol
Didn't get pass the first 34 second when i saw the first 3 POGs. Well I guess Marine Infantry is too crazy and scary for american television.
Enrique Valentin "MCT" and you where supposed they where POGs #asvabwaiver
twopoint Takedown Yeah I know what Marine Combat Training is and that is where combat training ends for pogs and with that grammar of yours, you must be an #asvabwaiver
Enrique Valentin Nothing wrong with the grammar I meant to put "surprised" though
twopoint Takedown your auto correct failed you.
Lmao
I’m cringing. My cringe is cringing.
brandx Muddy my eyes are stuck in the back of my head...
To bad you didn't go to the SOI ( school of infantry ) over in Camp Pendleton
Aaron Bentley Everyone goes to SOI, but there’s 2 battalions there, MCT or ITB if you’re infantry you go to ITB.
Yea Steven, us grunts call it SOI
“Being a marine is: depressing.”
Marines not recruits...
The Byers Babies glad someone else caught that too
Smh
I caught that too, recruit is our N word lol
When you get your EGA, you’ll officially a marine
Smh she can't even do her job right.
SHe said these recruits... it’s like nails on a chalk board. They’re Marines.
The platoon she spoke with at first was my platoon. 4th plt G co. That hike was a joke. I was just out of view of the camera lol
That female marines hard part: eccentric and females can do it, sure, but better? Cmon..
What instructor let her go on with a jacked hair cut?
DID SHE JUST CALL THOSE MARINES RECRUITS?!
Going to bed at 21 at mct never happened. That’s a farce.
Plz No facts bro
more like cleaning 240s until 0330 and waking up at 0400
haha we would try to go to bed by 21 but some dumbasses kept asking questions about the fleet and the "real marine corps" in the school circle for hours and hours after the supposed lights-out time.
During ITR (thats what they called it then) sometimes you never WENT to the rack
Women are not equal to men in a job like that
One of my proudest moments in my life was earning the title US Marine!
When I spent some time at MCAS New River for aircraft maintenance training, I remember being completely blown away by how massive Camp Lejeune was. Long stretches of like 50 MPH roads, a massive MCX that was the size of the mall where I was stationed (Cannon Air Force Base). Just blew my mind.
Its cute seeing all these little boys get mad about the comment from the female marines. Y'all stay laying awake at night worrying about it meanwhile these badass women are out there fighting for our country.
WM's are support MOS's, they are not in infantry units. Nice try...cupcake.
Christine Phillips Spot on! 😂
Thank you
Lol. Keep thinking that. Women are held to a much lower standard. Any Marine can tell you that. But I guess it’s just easier for you to tell yourself lies than admit the truth. Why don’t you do a decent pull up and maybe talk.
Spoken like a true POG non-service member. What a joke.
I guess that boot didn’t read the study on the integration of females into infantry units that proved not only were women (on average) not better than men in combat units, but worse. They got hurt more often, scored lower on physical fitness tests, and scored lower on rifle qualifications. Plus their certain female needs made them a hindrance to combat effectiveness. On top of that, if Ms. Kelly wanted an accurate depiction of Marines, she should have gone to a fleet unit, preferably an infantry battalion and done some training with them. These boots have no idea what it means to be an actual rifleman nor will they ever due to the fact they are not infantry.
Brandon Scott I’ve always heard that women are better shots then men, at least initially. This is because they obey instructions better opposed to most men who listen and do it their own way. But yeah women don’t belong in combat, wait until a real war and they have to hold a front line, they’ll cry feminism again and force the military to put them back in the kitchens and hospitals.
DangerousThoughts, women being better shots than men initially or at all is false.
DangerousThoughts women have too much emotions
Life as we know it They are also treated like dogs. So....
Yuuut
I was a Marine Corps recruit back in the fall of 1981. I still haven't forgotten how hard it was.
I was there with my husband Randall Lynn 1981
Have you started getting sick yet?
This is MCT... this is not School Of Infantry.... get it right
That Guy school of infantry is a regiment over MCT and ITB so you're still wrong #asvabwaiver
The title says mct? And she never referred to it as ctb
Jbob32 females traiin with men at mct just like in the video. they're absolutely garbage but theyre there. And why is everything about the liberals pushing and idea you don't want? This was a harmless segment to show thanks for the military for November maybe? 🤔
MCT is one of the two training battalions under the School of Infantry. What you're trying to say is, "This is MCT, not ITB (Infantry Training Battalion)."
You report to SOI whether you are MCT or infantry....get it right
I too love my Marines. My oldest son is one and I'm a Seabee vet.
45 lbs isn’t heavy
Juan Llerena yeah, that was a little light I thought. I thought it was 75?
Ours is over a hundred
I carried a 135lbs ruck on a 5 miles run and all I got to say never again
When your tired and sore it kind of is
Stabsgefreiter I’m sorry but 45 lb is literally nothing. You’d have to be on 3 days of no sleep, no food, no water for that to feel heavy. It’s not like you’re curling it with one arm. Your WHOLE body is moving it. It’s literally nothing
"It appears that your back injuries are not service related."
Can I just say that there are two different schools after boot camp also those packs are more then 45 pounds
Scott Whitaker one of our hikes to the range was around 80-90 pounds
Ours was 80 lbs. But they got girls in there now. So the standards have to change. But, I'm 48 now so my pack is only 25 lbs. So who am I?
@@smprfly nah they carry the same weight as males, it's from 75 pounds - 80 pounds I think
To the little girl sitting at home, I say "Don't join kid! It's a shake down." Semper Fi, screw the other guy! Lol!
This kind of makes me roll my eyes. MCT is just another job. Like... it's 4 week entry level job training. And it's not that hard or remarkable.
I'm an Air Wing POG, prob the worse POG there is to a Grunt, I'll tell you what though, I patrolled, pulled security details and slept under the stars from LZ to LZ all over Iraq with the same convoy over an over again. I didn't need to be a Grunt, Being a Marine was Good enough (MCT 2001, Camp Pendleton, CA)
I guarantee the reporter fell out of that hike lol
Bad Andy lol
notice they didn't let her talk to actual fleet marines, because it would've been a different story entirely
"Once a Marine, Always a Marine."
Well in 2013 the government messed up.
The first woman just passed recon school. Some of them are hardcore
Now go and do paperwork
As a retired Soldier with 30 years active duty, 9 on jump status, Ranger qualified, my opinion of you chest beaters is that you have missed the point. Kelly and the Today Show did America’s fighting forces a huge favor. Those 99% of Americans who do not serve have little idea of what you do day-to-day, the sacrifices you and your families make, or the pain of a road march. It is a positive clip. Sit back and take the praise.
You really think the general american public wants to know what happens in an army camp or in a warzone. The general public wants to see soldiers who are patriotic, some little bit of training shots, cue some patriotic music, show guns, some drone shots etc. That's it. Most of them won't even take a bullet for the country.
I don't mind women being in the infantry, however they should be in segregated platoons. But like all Marines, no Marine is left behind so if a male unit or female unit runs into trouble, they should back each other up.
Also women pt is not as bad as mens so how are they better
Show the real Marines! the Marines at SOI...THE GRUNTS!
Of course that hump wasn't hard, it was only a 5k and you're not wearing any body armour.
Rusty Shackleford, agreed or m-60s, field transport pccks, 782 gear, base plates for mortars, extra ammo cans 7.62 nato, steel pots, flak jackets, spare barrel bags, and the list goes on and on! Oohrah
Woman in the corps doing a combat job is a joke, at mos training about 75% of them would make excuses every day about why they couldn't work out, or quit during the workout. Sorry if this offends any females out there but I wouldn't anyone of them having my back in battle tbh
Fckoffd 78hansolo Thank you!
Fckoffd 78hansolo definitely true. I have only meet one female who could fireman carry me or buddy drag me and I only weigh 180 pounds. I don't want to get blown up and get left behind because your to weak to carry me
Very true!!! Even the toughest female Marine is as the level of the weakest male Marine. I’m all for equality but by and large women cant keep up with many male Marines.
Fook sorry. It's the truth!
She didn't do squat. Guaranteed.
Once a marine always a marine
Now let her try out the basic recon course...
Megan should have interviewed Grunts not POG’s
Leonard Contreras Grunts are the real Marine Corps. POGs are all civilians see
She interviewed Marines. You all sound like a bunch of do nothing shower shoes that smell like cash sales!
daniel n sounds like a POG talking
Leonard Contreras you got me! Great come back!
Think you meant to pronounce that "future McDonald's employees."
Please stop calling them recruits
0:37 SGT Ross is the guy in the middle he was a CI for Fox Co. I just left there yesterday
I am a West Coast Marine and I remember that boot camp not being like this!!
Hanz Choloburger this is MCT not boot camp lmao
Dislike, just because Megyn kelly
Sorry sister... but you can't do everything I can do.
I went to the recruitment center to join the Marines. The marine recruiter was not there. The army recruiter started up a conversation. He pointed out the army has everything the marines have except a whole lot more. He pointed to the large poster of Airborne Infantry in the sky under parachute canopies. He added you also get $70. a month extra. I went there to be a marine and left Army Airborn Infantry All The Way.
who?
Correct your Title and information of this segment -- Marine Boot Camp is not At Camp Lejeune Megyn. That was a part of Combat Training school that comes after Boot camp it is NOT ANY PART OF BOOT CAMP which is for recruits that are earning their title as a Marine -- Parris Island and San Diego is were the true GRIT of a Marine is Forged and The Title of a Marine is Earned !!! You were way off on this post title --- When speaking of our Marines you need to get your information Correct -- you should be ashamed of yourself for getting this so wrong !!! From a Proud Mother of Marines and spouse of a Marine -- Blue Star Family and Proud !!!
very true but the title does say combat training camp. My brother is a Marine and did his boot camp training in San Diego.
Calm down the title doesn't say anything about boot camp. The only sin here was filming a bunch of non 03s instead of taking a look at the SOI class. Majority of these guys will be sent to school and never touch a rifle again except for annual qual.
Connie - The video is clearly talking about MCT (Marine Combat Training) lol. She clearly said they had just completed boot camp, and from there we go to MCT or SOI depending on MOS. You're a real hoot though, have a nice day!
jononwheelz for real, like why the heck didn't they go through ITB and not MCT... POGs
Yeah this title is correct, I'm sure MSNBC would fact check things.
goddamit they are not recruits
Having each others back. Semper fi.
go to itb mct is nothing compared to Infantry training battalion
To say all women can be in a combat roles IS false but some can. Some workout and can be as stronger than the average woman. It is harder for a woman to perform on an average man's pace BUT it's not impossible. That's like saying every man could do Combat jobs and we all know that's false. It's about the heart and the work ethic not about bout the gear in between your pants.
A Marine will NEVER leave another Marine behind ! Semper Fi to ALL my brothers and sister's
1371 wish luck leave Feb 7th
"You can do everything they can do, and you can do it better."
Yeah...
Why not compair the combat training of the Marines to the combat training of an Army infantry soldier?
And then they went to the fleet 🤣
YUT
Excellent film footage sound and commentary.
when i was in marine combat training we stood outside at night for 4 hours because people snuck using the soda machines and it was raining and super cold and we were all in our green Ts and shorts. I then had to go to fire watch because I was punished for being someone's buddy that lost their sweat top. after an hour had passed there was yelling and screaming across the camp and the combat instructors where asking for help over the radio. Apparently there was a riot & fighting between all the classes at the camp because of the soda machine incident. And apparently an instructor pulled his gun on someone... it was a great night as i finished the 2 hour watch looking for the ghost in the white dress that haunts the camp
Do all MOS's go through basic and MCT now? When I went through in 1984 only 0311 would go to infantry training - correct?
Seems like 0341 went to Pendleton and other MOSs went to other duty stations that better fit their MOS
Pogs. These are non combat jobs and mct is only like 26days. ITB for infantry marines is a whole different ball game
look this is basically how things goes you do a 3 proper chin above the bar pull up you barley scrap the passing mark as a marine the kind of requirement a pog needs to get for female all they need to do is hand on the bar for 15 seconds
"These recruits"
I always love the marines! Great respect!
Omg they are not recruit. They are Marines
Back in the day WE called this ITR
Now im 72 years old
Lol, yes I'm 68.
Marines see only three colors Light green, medium green, and dark green.
Y’all talking bout Infantry is crazy y’all must not know any Division Combat Engineers
Ladies, use your instincts. I know part of camaraderie is trusting…just don’t get too comfortable. You never want to give someone the opportunity to use that trust against you.
These comments are either super sexist or a bunch of angry marines trying to correct a person who will never care about your comment. The video was made for ppl who don't know ANYTHING about the military, just to give them a warm & fuzzy feeling. That's why majority of it was so unreal, she would never be in the fleet interviewing.
Camp Geiger Jacksonville NC!
Gieger tigers. Camp guard alumni here lol
They cover pogs wow what about us Grunts
Too any Marines watching this that just graduated boot camp, the info specified above is wrong, regarding the hikes. That was the old POI, you now do a 10k, 10k, 15k, then a 5k, the 15k is then immediately followed by a 5k hike. I can only say this for SOI East. I just went through all of this so I can say all of this for complete certainty.
Btw, it's "too many marines..." not "to many...". Doof.
Thanks
It’s a 10/10/15 , there is no 5k .
yeah they changed that right after I went through, my group was the last of the 2014 POI
My cycle was kinda f'ed up and we did just a 10/15 for graded hikes but had a bunch of movements that were 10k that weren't hikes you could fail but sucked way worse than the 10-15k. (Fy18 poi)
I flinched when I heard her say recruits
I remember the days when we were stationed there and youngest son born there. Enjoyed it at the time.
Did u drink the contaminated water?
Her: why did you want to be a marine?
Me: I didn’t want to go to college.
If our Pt standards aren't the same then we're not doing the same and you're not proving you can do more than myself. Foh sorry I have a Sailor's mouth for a reason. Hooyah
Why do they Always say 45 lbs of gear? That's light asf. When I went to ITB the starting weight was 80 lbs
Ohhhh women are in this school. Must not be a big deal. And the dude cried. 😢
Should of asked them about their crayon diet
You peacetime “grunts” be the funniest.
Also they boots af but I wish I was there soon enough mucho respect to all of you ❤
2:17 cockroach runs across the floor XD
Brotherhood & Camaraderie? yeah right..
Yeah they’re boots. Once they get to the fleet, that motivation will die.
I'm a marine, but I would never want my daughter to join! I know how male marines are.
What do you mean by that statement?
It's more like you know how female marines are.
The host is such a cringe fml and the crowd
Anything men can do women can do and do it better? Ah....ok.
daniel n yeah. That was a sexist comment she made. I'm offended.
She was just reading the script.
Love them! God bless America
You can count on Kelly to get it wrong
5:09 MOS 0811 Rahhh One Shot Many Kills
When did you finish MOS school?
That woman says you can do everything else A man can do and you can do it better???
Thats just stupid.
Haha, sounds like the combat arms in Canada are the same from the comments.. .basic seemed tough but our instructors were army, navy or air force. You could literally have some walrus mustachioed trucker with grease spots on his uniform as your section commander. But battle school was 10 times worse, your instructors were all from your trade with 10-15 years in, old injuries, on the 2nd or 3rd marriage, budding drinking problem, and still sleeping in the stage 5 trench they built in their backyard lol. It was a nightmare.
Incorrect, I joined in 2010 and had a combat MOS as a female. 3531, I drove trucks.
Great 👍 ❤️💛🇺🇸💛❤️ 👍 story Meghan!!!! I’m so very glad that you researched and reported that EVERY MARINE is a basic rifleman. This includes Marine Corps musicians who perform in the White House, Marine Corps Band New Orleans, and individual bases.
Proud wife and Mama of a United States Marine!!!
Semper Fi!!!!!!
❤️💛🇺🇸🙏🏼🇺🇸💛❤️
in other words your husband is a pog
Mike Hascats
Hi 👋Mike,
Don’t know what pog is in Marine Corps lingo. If this term has anything to do with music, my hubby can only listen to music, and our son only matches pitch because I can sing. My hubby was an air traffic controller while on active duty and then a crew chief on a small jet(can’t recall the type) where he and the pilots over him flew Major General Livingston all over the country. That was their primary mission. Our son was a tow gunner. Came in second in his class at Camp Pendleton from about 300 brand spanking new Marines, and the “top 3 Marines” in the class got to blow up a tank!
GOD bless our beloved United States 🇺🇸 Marine Corps!❤️🙏🏼🇺🇸🙏🏼❤️
P.S. I just googled the definition of POG.
@@bobbettedavis9168 he is still a pog
Mike Hascats
Uh,... Forgive me Mike, but is the purview of the Corps, Land, Sea, and Air? Pog/ not Pog, a Marine is a Marine is a Marine. I love them all!
GOD Bless!❤️💛🙏🏼🇺🇸🙏🏼💛❤️
@@bobbettedavis9168 ummm, a 100-pound female marine cook does not equal a 180 pound marine infantryman
Why did you interview an MCT unit 😂
Because it’s a documentary about MCT?
They obviously never met us,Serbs or Russians among the rest Slav's...
Bet she didn’t drink or use any of the water
They should’ve interviewed ITB, not MCT..