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How the Martial Arts Center o ExcellenceProduces Fierce H2HC Fighters Through MCMAP

MACE (USMC)

STORY AND PHOTOS BY LOREN FRANC
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Nobody likes war. But freedom-loving

people must ght them and win. Thats

been the mission o the U.S. Marine Corps

since 1775, when it was created by the Continental Con-

gress to execute amphibious assaults.

Combat has changed since then, and so has theCorps. Yet as the war on terrorism continues, the Ma-

rines arent just keeping pace with the techniques o

the modern battleeld. Theyre leading the way. Case in

point: The Marine Corps Martial Arts Program.

Established in mid-2000, MCMAP (pronounced

mick-map) is a comprehensive close-combat system

that gives practitioners equal doses o ghting skill and

character development. Sound amiliar? It should. Most

traditional martial arts have similar goals. But MCMAP

skips the anare and olklore and cuts to the chase. With

Marine Corps martial arts, its literally do-or-die on 21st-

century battleelds.

MCMAP creates synergy among the mental, physi-

cal and character development o all United States Ma-

Deadly DisciplinesThe moves o the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program all into our ghting categories:

Rife and bayonet: Techniques include vertical and horizontal rife-butt strokes, xed-bayonetthrusts and slashes, and rearm-retention techniques.

Edged weapons: Students learn vertical slashes and thrusts, reverse slashes and thrusts, and knie

de-enses.

Weapons o opportunity: Training emphasizes blocks, ollow-ups against thrusts and improvised

weapons. (A standard-issue entrenching tool is the avorite improvised weapon o 2nd Lt. Beatriz

Yarrish, who is 5 eet tall and weighs 100 pounds but can wield one with deadly accuracy.)

Unarmed combat: The repertoire includes armbars, come-alongs, wrist locks, takedowns and

countermoves.

L.F.

rines, explains Sgt. James Shadle, a martial arts instruc-

tor trainer at Camp Pendleton, Caliornia. The program

draws on our existing core values, leadership and war-

ghting training programs, and combines them with a

new weapons-based martial arts system. Our intent? To

develop every Marine into a ully capable warrior andto enhance the warrior ethos o our Corps. In short, MC-

MAP prepares all Marines or the challenges o modern

warare.

EAST MEETS WEST

Because MCMAP is rooted in the traditional martial

arts, Marines are amiliar with many o its components.

The traditional arts demand rigorous study, training and

discipline. MCMAP does, too. Ancient ghting systems

help practitioners subdue enemies quickly and eec-

tively. So does MCMAP. And traditional martial arts instill

honor, courage and commitment. Those are also top

MCMAP priorities.

There is a connection between the traditional mar-


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tial arts and MCMAP, explains Capt. Arturo Her-

nandez, commanding ocer o Instructional Train-

ing Company at San Diegos Marine Corps Recruit

Depot. Every year, his unit teaches the program to

20,000 recruits and hundreds o Marines stationed

at the 388-acre base.MCMAP is composed o several ghting arts, in-

cluding judo, jujutsu, karate, kenpo, even boxing, he

continues. But we use only techniques that work on

the battleeld.

COMBAT READY

Like Hernandez, Sta Sgt. Eric James sees similari-

ties and dierences between MCMAP and the

traditional arts. A ormer drill instructor, James now

teaches at the Recruit Depot.

During combat, Marines have one overriding pri-

ority, and thats to kill the enemy not merely get

him o our backs, James says. We want to renderhim useless so he cant hurt anyone. Many civilian-

run martial arts schools teach students to tap out.

But against the enemy, we break it, choke him with

it, beat him with it, leave him or dead and keep go-

ing. It sounds brutal, but Marines train or combat.

Thats our job.

MCMAP works so well because its simple, says

Gunnery Sgt. Orlando Diaz, an instructor at Camp

Pendleton. He joined the Corps in 1981 and saw the

boost the

ectiveness o

Achilles lock, a

rine places his let

t on his enemys

ht thigh. Without

e o the leg, the

emy has virtually

hope o escaping.

arines learn to use whatever works in

mbat. Here, James Shadle uses an aikido

mbar to control his oe. Ater securing

e technique, he has three options: hold

e other man stationary until help arrives,

ove him in a specifed direction or break

elbow.

Many o the techniques that mak

the Marine Corps Martial Arts Prog

are indistinguishable rom those o

traditional Asian arts. Here, a Ma

delivers an upward palm-heel strik

the chin o his oppon


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program implemented. It ts all skill levels and is kept

simple because in the heat o combat, youre tired and

need to overcome opponents quickly, Diaz adds.

TRADITION OF INNOVATION

Line training ormerly prepared Marines or hand-to-

hand combat. They periodically assembled in ormation

to practice basic techniques. But as the 21st century

dawned, Gen. James L. Jones, commandant o the Ma-

rine Corps, visualized something better.

When Character CountsThree core values are crucial to the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program and to the Corps itsel. Theyre

vital to every Marines physical, mental and moral development.

Honor: For Marines, this means honesty, integrity, respect, accountability and trust. Its a tall order,

but it is one that more than 200,000 Marines ll daily thanks largely to the MCMAP.

Courage: It includes mental, moral and physical strength. It helps Marines do whats right no matter

the circumstances. And it helps them deeat the enemy wherever hes ound. MCMAP cultivates

courage.

Commitment: It breeds proessionalism, discipline, pride and mastery o the arts o war. Without

commitment, there would be no MCMAP and no Marine Corps.

L.F.

At the Marine Corps

Recruit Depot in San

Diego, a drill instructor

motivates a student to

punch with maximum

orce during the combat

conditioning exercise.

Highly trained warriors ... are not enough to ensure

victory on tomorrows battleelds, writes Jones, the 32nd

general to command the Corps. Marines need fexible

and robust weapons platorms and equipment, as well

as an organizational structure that supports operational

concepts designed or uture threats and mission require-

ments. Consequently, the Corps has earned great divi-

dends rom its institutional tradition o innovation.

This tradition is a driving orce behind MCMAP, says

Sta Sgt. Ernest Cardenas, an instructor trainer at the


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Recruit Depot. The commandant wants Marines to be

known as erce ghters. He realized that i we earn black

belts, the rest o the world will see us as a orce ready to

deend itsel, whether with weapons or hand to hand.

MCMAP was developed so we could train and ght hard,

even when tired. The moves are simple and easy to re-

member, but very eective.

Sta Sgt. Rodney Mitchell, a ormer close-combat

instructor, believes MCMAP is a huge improvement

over line training, which he used to teach. We taught

chokes and throws that dated to World War II, he says.

Being on the ground

under the enemy is a real

possibility or Marines.

These men at the Marine

Corps Recruit Depot are

training ull contact or

such an eventuality.

They worked, but this is much better. It includes mul-

tiple techniques so Marines can enter any situation and

whup it on.

BOOT-CAMP BASICS

Until MCMAP, only select Marines like Mitchell were

thoroughly taught the martial arts. But now everyone re-

ceives such training. Boot-camp graduates in San Diego

and Parris Island, South Carolina, have earned their tan

belts, which is MCMAPs initial rank. So have newly com-

missioned ocers.

Most Marine hand-

to-hand combat

ends on the ground.

Consequently,

MCMAP emphasizes

grappling techniques

such as this secured

wrist-lock pin.


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The combat conditioning exercise (CCX) is the re-

cruits ultimate martial arts challenge. It is taught on an

oval course near the bases sprawling physical-training

eld. Most people ght best when resh, so the real chal-

lenge or them becomes deeating the enemy when

theyre hungry, sleepy or physically exhausted. The CCXtests this ability using stations or knee strikes, sparring,

breakalls, body drags and other close-combat tasks.

Ater boot camp, all Marines are schooled in a military

occupational specialty such as inantry, intelligence, mo-

tor transport or operational communications. They seek

higher MCMAP belt ranks at the same time. When they ar-

rive at their feet assignments, they train in MCMAP within

their units, which have their own martial arts instructors.

They receive ree training throughout their careers.

Sgt. Josh Erlien, a MCMAP instructor and counter-

measures technician, is inspired by the programs high

standards. It is evolving, he says, and as better ghting

techniques become available, they are incorporated into

the program.

EVERYTHING MARINEAlthough MCMAP is new, its here to stay. In act, its

already a pillar o Marine Corps training.

Marines are advertised to be warriors who are capa-

ble o deending the nation, the Corps and each other,

writes Lt. Col. G.H. Bristol, director o the Marine Corps

Martial Arts Center or Excellence in Quantico, Virginia,

the programs headquarters. MCMAP gives [us] the

mental, character and physical disciplines to be what we

are advertised to be.

MCMAP draws rom the Western martial art o boxing, as well as rom the Eastern arts. Instructor trainer Ernest Cardenas

corrects a Marines arm position during a right-hand hook punch.


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Getting BeltedI youre amiliar with karate and taekwondo, the Marine Corps Martial Arts Programs belt-ranking

system will be nothing new. It spans our colors and six degrees o black. Each level includes stretching,

body-hardening exercises, academic study and written exams.

Tan belt: Basic techniques or enlisted recruits and ocer candidates. Instruction ocuses on core

values and principles o leadership. Techniques include the basic warrior stance, body-movement

angles, punches, body strikes, chokes and throws.

Gray belt: Skills or privates rst class and lance corporals. Instruction includes more basics,

introductory intermediate-level undamentals and mental discipline. Techniques include elbow and

knie-hand strikes, chokes, counter-chokes, counter-strikes, o-balancing techniques and bayonet

ghting.

Green belt: Intermediate-level undamentals or corporals and sergeants. Techniques include

muscle gouging, shoulder throws, wrist locks using enhanced pain compliance, ground ghting and

weapons o opportunity.

Brown belt: More intermediate-level undamentals and introductory advanced-level undamentals.

Techniques include bayonet methods against multiple attackers, leg locks and armbars, armbar

counters, rearm disarms and retention, and nonlethal baton tactics.

Black belt:Advanced skills. Techniques include bayonet use in low light and against multiple

attackers, sweeping hip throws, ace rips and triangle chokes rom the guard, pistol counters,

cupped-hand strikes and pressure-point applications.

L.F.

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