Students in the Marine Corps Instructor Course of Water Survival swim across the pool as they conduct water physical training at the base pool aboard Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Dec. 1, 2015. MCICWS is a course for noncommissioned officers and higher to become water survival instructors, whose purpose is to make sure Marines are safe during basic swim qualification. “It’s a very physically demanding course but it’s at a level where it needs to be,” said Gunnery Sgt. Brandon Soetaert, the chief instructor trainer for the MCICWS with Expeditionary Warfare Training Group, Pacific and a Kansas City,

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Students in the Marine Corps Instructor Course of Water Survival swim across the pool as they conduct water physical training at the base pool aboard Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Dec. 1, 2015. MCICWS is a course for noncommissioned officers and higher to become water survival instructors, whose purpose is to make sure Marines are safe during basic swim qualification. “It’s a very physically demanding course but it’s at a level where it needs to be,” said Gunnery Sgt. Brandon Soetaert, the chief instructor trainer for the MCICWS with Expeditionary Warfare Training Group, Pacific and a Kansas City, Mo., native. “It’s going to weed out some of the weak individuals.” ( Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Zachary Orr) Marines swim through the Marine Corps Instructor Course of Water Survival 151201-M-ZO893-812

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