Seaman Nicholas Conklin, a corpsman with 3rd Regiment, and a Sanger, Texas, native, hands out gear to students in the Marine Corps Instructor Course of Water Survival 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 T

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Seaman Nicholas Conklin, a corpsman with 3rd Regiment, and a Sanger, Texas, native, hands out gear to students in the Marine Corps Instructor Course of Water Survival 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)

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