On Saturday, 28 January the Marine Military Academy held the final training session of Plebe Training<\/b> on the Leadership Enhancement and Development Complex<\/a>.\u00a0 This final session included a hike and Rock Climbing in the morning and COPE Games in the afternoon.\u00a0 Plebe training<\/i>, which began on Registration Day, will officially end at their graduation next Saturday morning at the Plebe Graduation parade when they will officially become members of the Corps of Cadets.<\/p>\n Check out the photos of Plebe Training<\/a>, Part III<\/p>\n To learn more about the Marine Military Academy visit our website at http:\/\/www.mma-tx.org<\/a> or request information at http:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/MMA\/admissions\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Marine Military Academy Plebe Training, Part III Maj Harold Compton On Saturday, 28 January the Marine Military Academy held the final training session of Plebe Training on the Leadership Enhancement and Development Complex.\u00a0 This final session included a hike and Rock Climbing in the morning and COPE Games in the afternoon.\u00a0 Plebe training, which began […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25],"tags":[85],"class_list":["post-2003","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-plebe"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":6}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2003"}],"version-history":[{"count":72,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12679,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2003\/revisions\/12679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mma-tx.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Plebe Training Hike<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Following a hearty breakfast the plebe formed up for their final hike of Plebe Training<\/span>.\u00a0 This hike would be approximately 5 miles in length and began at the Academy, headed south to Grimes Rd., then east about 1 mile where it began a long loop through farmland ending up back near the airport.\u00a0 It then wound its way through the Texas State Technical College campus to the Iwo Jima Monument.\u00a0 Here the plebes got a short break while a group photo was taken and then finished up the final leg back to their barracks.\u00a0 The beautiful South Texas weather was ideal for\u00a0the hike and spirits remained high throughout the entire hike.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Take a minute to check out the hike photos<\/a>.\u00a0 A short 30 minute break followed the hike while plebe prepared themselves for Rock Climbing.<\/p>\nPlebe Rock Climbing<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>Following a short rest the plebe headed to the tower for Rock Climbing<\/a>.\u00a0 After donning helmets and harnesses the plebes received a short brief on proper climbing technique and began their assault on the wall.\u00a0 Many of them found the going much harder than they expected but they were determined.\u00a0 Each plebe had an opportunity to take on one of the climbing routes at least twice and by the time many of them hit it the second time they had figured out that good technique is always better than brute strength and they successfully reached to top\u00a0of the wall.\u00a0 Plebe training’s last high event was now a thing of the past and they were relieved to have finished it as they headed to lunch.<\/p>\nPlebe Training COPE Games<\/h2>\n
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<\/a>After filling their stomaches the plebes headed back out to the Back 40 for the final outdoor event of plebe training:\u00a0 COPE Games.\u00a0 For this event they would be tackling 5 separate events:\u00a0 Island Hoppers, All Aboard, Pass the Hula Hoop, Tank Walk and A-Frame Shuffle.\u00a0 Without going into long explanations, these events are all team based events that require all of the plebes to work together to complete fun and challenging events.\u00a0 Some events such as the A-Frame Shuffle look surprisingly easy however plebes quickly find out that coordination between all team members is the key to success.\u00a0 Plebe training would not be complete without a chance for the plebes to find amusement in their own actions and COPE Games can certainly provide such amusement!\u00a0 This marked the conclusion of the outdoor training portion of\u00a0 Plebe Training and the plebes can now look forward to one more week of classes before graduation.<\/p>\nPlebe Training Photos<\/h3>\n