 Religious program specialists serving with First Marine Division attended an Urban Leaders Course aboard Camp Pendleton July 8th through 12th. The week-long course focused on various urban warfare techniques, including room clearing and military operations on urban terrain training. The Urban Leaders Course is pretty much, of course, designed to provide Marines with instruction and basic knowledge about military operations in urban terrain. Everything from convoys to football patrols to clearing buildings, anything that falls in between that realm. RPs are often assigned to infantry battalions, making training offered at division schools, like the Urban Leaders Course, another useful tool for their tool belt. Shoot, move and communicate. You know, that's the three things that we harp on and that we ask that they take away of anything. You know, as long as you can shoot effectively, communicate effectively, and move fluently, you should stay alive. RPs are responsible for protecting and unarmed chaplain. The Urban Leaders Course provides high-quality infantry-level training to the sailors, an advantage to any RP who is about to deploy. I think this course is actually beneficial to anybody that's actually with a division or better yet even a victory unit because anybody can really benefit from this training. Like I said, whether it be, you know, corpsmen, RP, anything from an assaultman all the way down to, you know, tip your basic rifleman. If you're with a victory unit and you're deploying, I highly recommend this course. Reporting from Camp Pendleton, California, I'm Sergeant Alfred Lopez.