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Field Operations Training Reports

Trainee : Lelei Pina
Name of Training : Field Operations
Training Location : Camp Ripley, Minnesota
Year of Training : Summer, 2009
Duration of Training : 1 week
Would recommend?? : YES
Overall Grade : A
Difficulty of Training : 4/5
Comments : As my first advanced training, going to Field Ops was a step into the unknown. It turned out to be everything I expected and a lot more. For the first three or four days you spend a lot of time in the classroom learning skills you're going to need in the field. These skills include map reading, navigation, and tactical movements. We also went out to a land navigation course and had to find specific places by what we had learned in class. After the learning and classroom part of the training was over it was time for the application. While in the field each squad had attacks on their camp in the middle of the night, missions to complete, and eventually clear a whole town and defeat the "enemy". This was by far the best part of the training. Overall, this training was intense but extremely fun.

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Trainee : Robert McStravick
Name of Training : Field Operations
Training Location : Twin Cities, Minnesota
Year of Training : summer, 2009
Duration of Training : 1 week
Would recommend?? : yes
Overall Grade : B
Difficulty of Training : 4/5
Comments : Very good field training; learned lots about tactical movements and formations. Learned how to navigate and map reading skills. First few days were spent cleaning the barracks and in classes, but once in the field it gets much better. If you don't like being yelled at by Marines all the time then this training might not be for you. Lots of fun would recommend to anyone who likes patrolling and tactics and living out in the field.

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Trainee First Name : Devin
Trainee Last Name : Davis
Name of Training : Winter Survival
Training Location : Watertown, New York
Year of Training : Winter 2009-10
Duration of Training : 1
Would recommend?? : maybe
Overall Grade : B
Difficulty of Training : 3
Comments : This training is fun but it is also extremely cold. You learn plenty about building shelters and other survival technique. Being out in the below zero temps for hours gets pretty miserable but you learn to adapt fairly quickly. The only problem with it is that the training is a week long so there is lots of class time due to the short stay.

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