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Take Your Battle Position
Reveal your fight. Test your will to win. Compete like never before.
When you’re ready to give it your all, will it be enough? How will the fight inside you measure up when there’s great challenges in front of you? If you’re truly ready to find out, Battle Position will show you the answer. This competition-filled, multi-sensory environment is uniquely Marine, designed to give you a taste of what it takes to fight and win through anything and everything. Battle Position is your proving ground. This is your guide.
THE TRUE CHALLENGE AWAITS
Don’t let the tech-forward, virtual reality-enabled format fool you—this is not a game. This is physical. This is combat readiness training and evaluation. This is battle. Battle Position simulates the training required to win as United States Marines, putting you in high-pressure situations across multiple fronts. To give you valuable insight into what it means to be a Marine, Battle Position will test you against these three distinct challenges.
PULL-UP BAR CHALLENGE
Part of the Physical Fitness Test (PFT) that evaluates the stamina and physical conditioning of all Marines, pull-ups test the upper body strength necessary to win battles. In this challenge, your task is to perform as many correct pull-ups as you can muster.
AMMO CAN LIFT
Marines are measured for their functional fitness through the Marine Corps Combat Fitness Test (CFT), which ensures they are ready for the physical rigors of combat operations. This challenge borrows from one element of the CFT evaluation—the ammo can lift. Your task is to lift a weighted ammo can above your head as many times as possible in 2 minutes.
VR PUGIL STICK BATTLE
Inspired by one of the most physically aggressive portions of Marine Corps Recruit Training, Pugil Sticks, this challenge is the ultimate test of Battle Position. This is virtual combat, where you will face off head-to-head against a virtual warrior in a computer-simulated battle arena. This test of speed, reflexes, and endurance will evaluate what your will to win is really made of.
Are You Ready to Battle?
When you take your battle position, you are seconds away from finding out what kind of warrior you are. But once the battle rages, there is no more time to prepare. Will your blows land? Or will your opponent’s? Watch this video to see what’s waiting for you in our virtual arena.
A Mindset. And a Skillset.
In close combat, it takes more than the will to win to achieve victory. One must learn and perfect the skills that Marines have proven successful in battle. Learn the techniques you’ll need before you ever step foot in Battle Position’s virtual arena.
Pugil Stick training is such an important part of the MARINE CORPS RECRUIT TRAINING process because for many recruits, it represents the first time they’ve ever had to face an opponent in such an aggressive manner. They quickly have to learn how to overcome hesitation and act, despite fear, in order to outmaneuver and overpower their opponents. Battle Position simulates this critical moment and equips participants with pugil sticks that are inspired by the heavily padded weapons used in this legendary melee combat training.
MARINE CORPS MARTIAL ARTS PROGRAM
One mind. Any weapon.
At Marine Corps Recruit Training, recruits learn how to combine unarmed and armed techniques designed for hand-to-hand combat through the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP).
PUGIL STICK TRAINING
With intensity. Decisive victory.
Pugil Stick Training is an effective and safe way for Marine Recruits to develop the ability to decisively engage and defeat their opponents in close combat scenarios.
WHAT TO EXPECT
FAQ
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THIS PAGE is a great resource for both you and your family as you talk about enlisting in the Marine Corps. It will provide a list of topics you can discuss with your family. A recruiter can also help you find the best way to discuss the decision with your family.