A recruit with Charlie Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, prepares to strike a pad during a combat conditioning exercise at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Sept. 5. One of the purposes of the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program is to teach recruits how to defeat the enemy using hand-to-hand combat. Annually, more than 17,000 males recruited from the Western Recruiting Region are trained at MCRD San Diego. Charlie Company is scheduled to graduate Nov. 9.

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