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Marine recruits learn basic combat skills Hometown Heroes

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an Army Reserve Officers’ Training
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versity of California, Davis, Calif.
Training Battalion, crosses an obstacle on a combat training course Aug. 4, Scholarships are awarded on a merit
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skills all Marines must know. The initial combat training recruits receive will be accomplishment, leadership abilities,
and personal interviews. Scholarship
broadened after boot camp during follow-on training at Camp Lejeune, N.C. recipients are enrolled as members of
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The scholarship entitlements include
for the chance to become United States Marines by enduring 13 weeks of tuition and fees, as well as an annual
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the Marine Corps.
Upon graduation from college and
completion of the ROTC program
requirements, the student receives a
bachelor’s degree and a commission
as a second lieutenant in the Army. All
scholarship students incur a military
service obligation of eight years, which
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active duty or in the Reserve Compo-
nents of the Army.

He is a 2012 graduate of Desert High
School, Edwards Air Force Base, Calif.

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