Recruit Thanh T. Truong, Fox Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, practices the kneeling position during Grass Week at Edson Range, Weapons and Field Training Battalion, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., Dec. 9. Recruits also learned the standing, sitting and prone shooting positions, and they were given the entire week to master them. Today, all males recruited from west of the Mississippi are trained at MCRD San Diego. The depot is responsible for training more than 16,000 recruits annually. Fox Company is scheduled to graduate Jan. 29.

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