 Push that handle up. All right, sir. Today is the first day for recruits conducting their water survival training. First, they're going to do a 25-meter swim assessment so we can identify if they have the ability to swim or not. From there, they're going to go to stay on the surface, which is where they'll stay in the water for five minutes and they're going to float. Definitely just listen to them. Listen to the techniques they teach you because that will definitely help you with the swimming portion of the staying afloat part. This crew has been waiting every day to become a Marine and kind of wearing this uniform right now. It's just very motivating, very motivating, very motivating. From there, they're going to go to a shallow water gear shed where they'll have a flat jacket, a Kevlar, and a rifle. And they're going to go underwater and they're going to drop their weapon, take their Kevlar off, and their flat jacket off. And then they're going to go to the bandage jet technique and that's when they actually jump off the tower. And then they're going to swim 25 meters and pull themselves out. I thought the swim crawl was pretty good. It taught me a lot about water survival. And it was very, with the gear on, it was heavier than I thought it was going to be. And it really, you have to push yourself, push yourself, push yourself, push yourself. The importance of McMap is to prepare the future Marine to be ready for any combat-related situation. Not every time in combat are you going to have your rifle. McMap teaches and prepares those Marines to fight hand-to-hand combat and win. McMap really helped create discipline, this recruit, because this group really knew how to fight. So it created a lot of discipline and a lot of confidence in this group. Today the recruits are going to be doing the confidence course. They're going to be doing a lot of the high obstacles, like stairway to heaven, slide for life. This is mainly to boost up their confidence. A lot of the recruits have never been into a challenge or a situation where they have to climb something high and they'll freeze. Right now we're going to get them to break out of that zone and build up their confidence. Confidence course so far, how I'm handling is a lot of intensity. It takes a lot of cardio, that's for sure. I mean, other than I'm loving it, ain't no fun at boot camp, that's for sure. What I liked most about attending the classrooms in the auditorium was learning about all my history, all the Marine history that I didn't know about, how far back we go, including the continental Marines, how far back we've been fighting since all the wars. We've always been the first in the front, last ones out, the strongest ones in. We're the ones that defend this country. We are who we are today because of our brothers who fell back then. It's crazy to think how before I came in here I didn't know anything about the Marines, but the classroom taught me a lot more than I knew. It teaches you how to take care of each other, how to work as a unit, how to fight together, how to stand together and die together if it comes down to it. More than two weeks ago, one more day is knowing I gave myself 100% and each day is a new challenge to give myself even more 100%. I know I don't make me a better person than my entire life. I want to be someone better, someone that can improve myself in some way. But at the end of the day, I just need to make sure I'll make a better life. Knowing that if I can go through this, I can go through any obstacle in my life. Will motivate me to keep going one more day, try to carry out a family legacy. Fourth generation Marines.