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The Marine Recon is a special operations unit of the Us armed forces. There are two types of Marine Recons: the Battalion, led by the Battalion Commander, and the Force, led by the Task Force Commander. The steps for condign either Marine Recon are very like, so read on to find out what it takes.

Steps

  1. 1

    Join the marines. Contact a recruiter via Marines.com. They will help you figure out the requirements, benefits, paperwork and responsibilities of condign a marine. While this process goes on, work out everyday in a gym and a pool to continue yourself in the all-time concrete shape possible.

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    Undergo Marine Recruit Training. Receive lessons in the Schoolhouse of Infantry to go a rifleman. Also express involvement in becoming recon to your combat instructors. These are required for all marines.

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    Make your way over to RTC. It is just downward the route from ITB west and report to the MART(marines pending reconnaissance grooming) instructors. Three to 4 years of field experience used to exist required but now you tin go regardless of if you have had years of experience or are fresh out of school.[one]

    • Upon showing upwardly you must score a 1st grade (215 or college) on the Physical Fettle Test. (If you want to stay, score over a 285, that'due south only a tip.) Reporting to recon school tin can be determined when signing up for the marine corps by speaking to a recruiter or tin later be volunteered for in the school of infantry.

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    Understand what it takes to be admitted into BRPC (bones reconnaissance primer course). Eligibility for BRPC is determined by the results from the Marine Physical Fitness Test (PFT). Eligibility is too adamant by the swim time and qualification of both WSI and WSB (h2o survival intermediate and water survival basic). Marines who are physically to a higher place boilerplate and score at least 275-285 on the examination will be admitted into the programme.[two]

    • The requirements for scoring 300 are: completing a iii-mile run in 18 minutes, xx dead-hang pull-ups, and 100 sit-ups in 2 minutes. Each achievement is worth 100 points.
    • In addition, you volition need to complete ii obstacle courses in less than ii minutes (per course), swim 500 meters (i,640.4 ft) in gear in 17 minutes, and run rucksack for 10 miles (sixteen km) while carrying 50 lbs in nether two hours. Be prepared for boosted tests from school to school.
    • Potential recons must as well pass a Level Examination.

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    Railroad train consistently for those tests. You will probably need to train for months in lodge to handle all of to a higher place requirements. At minimum, your workout should consist of:[3]

    • Swimming for at least one hour 4-v times per week, while donning camis or fins at to the lowest degree one time per week.
    • Tread water with your hands in a higher place h2o for over 40 minutes.
    • Perform intensive calisthenics workouts every other mean solar day (iii-iv times per week), using the following exercises. Your goal should be to increment the number that y'all can complete in the allotted fourth dimension from week to week.
      • 2 minutes of push-ups
      • 2 minutes of sit-ups
      • 2 minutes of pull-ups
      • 2 minutes of flutter kicks
      • two minutes of viii-count push-ups
      • ii minutes of scissors
    • Running at least 4-5 times per week and performing a rucksack at to the lowest degree in one case per week
    • Preparing for a twenty-mile forced march (or "hump") at 4–five mph (vi.4–8.0 km/h) and a timed 4-mile rucksack run (50 lbs)

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    Take the Marine Physical Fitness Test when you are prepare, to see how you score. If you are eligible for BRPC, y'all volition interview with the SNCOIC of RTC and set to thrash. Annotation that information technology is notwithstanding possible to be rejected at this point if your mental attitude and teamwork are perceived to exist problematic.[4]

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    Congratulate yourself, if yous are accustomed! Yous will at present exist assigned to the Basic Reconnaissance Primer Course where you will be tested both physically and mentally in means y'all can't imagine. You need to set up you for BRC (basic reconnaissance grade) amd the school that will turn you into an elite warrior capable of anything. Don't quit on yourself. Finishing BRC will officially promote y'all to condign a Reconnaissance Marine.[5]

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  • Question

    Is xiv too early to exist thinking nearly this?

    Community Answer

    No. Go for it. It's never to early on to have a dream. Showtime training now and y'all will make information technology.

  • Question

    Exercise I have to serve in the infantry for a certain number of years to exist eligible?

    Community Answer

    No. You lot can enlist every bit a recon Marine. But know that if you lot become in for that contract and don't make it, you tin can exist sent anywhere they need you lot.

  • Question

    Tin can I wear glasses and still exist a Recon Marine?

    Community Answer

    Yes, yous can. You tin even apply for surgery.

  • Question

    Tin can I be in the process of becoming a woman and still go to BRC?

    Community Answer

    No, a genital alteration is probably going to disqualify you from the Marines entirely.

  • Question

    How erstwhile does a recon Marine have to be?

    Community Answer

    A recon Marine can be as young as 17. You tin can go into the marines with a recon contract.

  • Question

    Do I accept to exist a Marine first?

    Community Answer

    Yeah, y'all have to be a Marine to be a candidate. No i can get a Marine Recon without offset becoming a Marine.

  • Question

    Can I switch from existence a Green Beret to Marine Recon?

    Community Answer

    Later yous finish your enlistment, you can utilize to enlist in the Marines, but you'll be required to go to USMC basic training and apply to Recon.

  • Question

    How can I join the USMC if I am Chinese?

    Community Answer

    Become to a recruiting station. As a not U.S. citizen, you can exist enlisted, merely they don't always do this, due to policy.

  • Question

    Does this work for both battalion recon and forcefulness recon?

    Community Answer

    Battalion recon is difficult, but forcefulness recon is fifty-fifty harder. For strength recon, you need to employ to become in and then must go through interviews to determine if you qualify. Information technology's a slightly dissimilar process.

  • Question

    Can people with criminal backgrounds bring together recon?

    Community Answer

    It is hundred-to-one. If y'all have a criminal background, yous might not exist able to go security clearance, and therefore may not be able to get recon.

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  • Exist conscientious when exercising. If you feel pain or are worried almost hurting yourself do not attempt more than what you tin do.

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  • Being a member of force recon requires insertions behind enemy lines. It volition be grueling work for you and your team, but well-worth information technology.

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