Marine Pvt. Alec Sapp, a student with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry - West, plays a game of chess with another Marine in between training classes as part of the eighth week of the Infantry Marine Course on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, March 17, 2021. IMC is a 14-week pilot course designed to create better trained and more lethal entry-level infantry Marines prepared for near-peer conflicts. The course uses a redesigned learning model for students intended to develop their capabilities for independent and adaptive thought and action. The pr


Marine Pvt. Alec Sapp, a student with Alpha Company, Infantry Training Battalion, School of Infantry - West, plays a game of chess with another Marine in between training classes as part of the eighth week of the Infantry Marine Course on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, March 17, 2021. IMC is a 14-week pilot course designed to create better trained and more lethal entry-level infantry Marines prepared for near-peer conflicts. The course uses a redesigned learning model for students intended to develop their capabilities for independent and adaptive thought and action. The program of instruction for IMC has been in development for a year and follows guidance from the 2019 Commandant's Planning Guidance and Force Design 2030. Sapp is a native of Salt Lake City.


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