 The Officer Candidate School at Quantico, Virginia, molds college graduates into hardened leaders. Two and a half months of intense physical training, academic instruction, and leadership exercises prepare the candidates for difficulties found both in the Corps and in life. Now, one of these trials will come a little earlier than expected with the Monford Point Challenge. The Monford Point Marines, the first black enlisted men in the Corps, were recently awarded the Congressional Gold Medal for overcoming adversity in an all-white Marine Corps while contributing to the war effort during World War II. The Monford Point is the blacks in the Second World War as a company. No one recognized them for all their hardship they went through. Basically, their job was to ammo resupply. Any resupply that was required on the front line, they would have to do that. Candidates have to negotiate a three and a half mile course designed to simulate the physical demands that Monford Point Marines met, carrying 60-pound ammo cans, 150-pound stretchers, and 300-pound logs. OCS instructors designed the course to reinforce classroom instruction with hands-on activities. They get to experience the hardship and endure the physical duress and they get to work as a team together to accomplish that mission that they're tasked with. Future officers complain to undergo this event during week nine of OCS as it is integrated into the official curriculum, deepening the legacy of the Monford Point Marines. Reporting from Quantico, I'm Lance Corporal John Tucker.