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SWJED
12-18-2005, 08:55 AM
18 Dec. Washington Times article on the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program - Marines go to the Mat (http://www.washtimes.com/specialreport/20051218-013829-7607r.htm).


...If Col. Shusko has his way, every Marine -- and everyone near them -- will benefit from the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP). Unlike men and women in the other branches of the armed forces, every Marine is taught how to fight hand-to-hand, up close and personal.

"Every Marine is a rifleman. Every Marine is a martial artist," Col. Shusko says.

For the first time in the U.S. military, an effort has been made to combine the most effective techniques of martial-arts disciplines from around the world into a single course of study -- MCMAP...