03xx opportunities after SOI

[Bowhunter92]

Marines I have a question about the schools i can attend after Infantry Training Battallion. Ive seen things at the recruiting station on places you can go after School Of Infantry. Courses like Land Navigation, Survival School and S.E.R.E. , i was wondering if there is a place i can find a list of all the schools an 03xx can attend, and if any of you Marines had any suggestions from personal experience what to attend.

Thank you for your time

[thewookie]

what to attend.

The list of schools out there is long, and it changes.

And the "list" isn't exclusive to 03's. A lot of schools are only available to 03's -- but a lot of that can be waiver-able (to an extent.)

Are you looking for only USMC schools? What about civilian schools?

Can you see where I am going with this?

As far as "what to attend" -- you ain't really gonna have much say in that matter. Not until you have some rank, and even then your input will be minimal.

Good luck.

[devilbones2]

I am so glad the internet wasnt popular before I got in. I would be on here asking so many questions. Back then we had to just find out for ourselves and experience things on our own.

[Pylon]

One school that is exclusively an opportunity for 03XX Marines is Infantry Squad Leader Course (and Machinegun/Mortar/Anti-Tank Section Leader Course, depending on the flavor of your MOS). You can go as early as LCpl, I believe, as long as you're in a Squad Ldr billet on paper. Otherwise, I believe you need to wait until Cpl to sign up.

Your S-3 should be able to tell you what schools and training opportunities are available at the time.

Also - don't expect that as a boot grunt your chain is going to send you to some high-speed low-drag school like Airborne or something. Slots for a lot of the "cool stuff" are extremely limited, and stuff like airborne is generally seems to be only given out as re-enlistment incentives these days.

If you want the additional education, do MCI's. It may not be hands on, but you'll learn a lot and it will make you more competitive in the long run. There's an MCI for just about everything, so no shortage of learning to be had.

[TheReservist]

One school that is exclusively an opportunity for 03XX Marines is Infantry Squad Leader Course (and Machinegun/Mortar/Anti-Tank Section Leader Course, depending on the flavor of your MOS). You can go as early as LCpl, I believe, as long as you're in a Squad Ldr billet on paper. Otherwise, I believe you need to wait until Cpl to sign up.

I went to ISLC as a lance in 08 but I heard rumors that they were going to make it for sergeants only because it does count as towards PME for sergeants because, I believe, it can be used in lieu of sergeants course.

[Pylon]

It used to be that ISLC could replace Corporal's Course for required PME. However as of a year or two ago there was a MARADMIN that said that ISLC now does not satisfy the requirement to attend in-residence Corporal's Course. You can attend ISLC as an optional PME, but you'll still need to go to Cpl's Course at some point if you want to make Sgt.

[TheReservist]

That sounds weird, as ISLC is a 10 week course like Sgts. Course while the billet of Squad leader is made for a sergeant. Also, it's kind of circumstantial but a friend who was a sergeant got selected for staff sergeant while he went to ISLC but not sergeants course.

Also, I thought that corporals course was still unnecessary for promotion to sergeant.

[Pylon]

You might be thinking of your friend attending IULC (Infantry Unit Leader's Course)?

The in-residence Cpl's Course as mandatory to make Sgt is also new: http://www.yuma.usmc.mil/desertwarri.../feature1.html

[TheReservist]

IULC is for 0369s aka Staff Sergeants

[Pylon]

Roger that. Well I can say that there were indeed LCpl's at ISLC while I was at Geiger recently; saw them with my own eyes. One CI said that about 40% of the recent classes have been LCpl's in Squad Leader billets, but that part of it I can't confirm.