Making the Corps

Thomas E. Ricks, who produces Legion as a reporter for the Pencilgon Wall Street Journal, is one of America's excellent military journalists. He was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize and received the Professional Journalist Association Award for his work based on the Marine Corps. Thomas E. Rick speaks for executives and is a member of the Harvard University Senior Advisory Committee, who is in charge of US citizen military relations programs. As a Department of Defense reporter, he can get information on other civilians who can not walk with foreign soldiers His eyes tell stories of marine life.

Thomas Ricks, author of "Made in the Legion", explained the basic military training of the US Marine Corps. The main focus of this book is the Platoon 3086 of Paris Island, Pennsylvania in 1995. Their story is about their 11 week training camp training to become a mature ocean. Mr. Riks wrote about the separation of the Marines from American society and wrote about the difference between the Marines and the rest of the American Army and the boot camp. The Marines change the young citizens to value: honor, courage and dedication. These values ​​have experienced 11 weeks boot camp at each recruiter. According to the Marine Corps, these values ​​are "Corps" of the Corps Corps (p. 55). In the American society, not trying to improve oneself as a whole, but first try to improve themselves.

In order to understand the correct way, recruits and marines will learn ethics and core value of the Marine Corps. Legion's core value is honor, courage and dedication. These values ​​are key to Marine Corps' characteristics. In recruitment training, new recruits acquire many relevant related knowledge such as these basic values, honesty, discipline, teamwork, responsibility, "teamwork" etc. Team Week will test the team building work so that new employees can work in a minimally supervised environment. At this point in training, recruits are expected to show higher maturity and take on more responsibilities. Some of the new recruits may work in a group around the depot and will not receive direct supervision by the mentor. So far, recruits will cultivate advanced discipline and understanding of teamwork and will function as a drilling unit.