The focus of Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP) is the personal development of each Marine in a team framework using a standardized, trainable, & sustainable close combat fighting system. As a weapon-based system, all techniques are integrated with equipment, physical challenges, and tactics found on the modern battlefield. A. Kimmel, Marine Corps Martial Arts Program Instructor, made sure the re-cruits felt comfortable with the MCMAP techniques and knew how it could ef-fectively help them in a needed situation. "If the situation occurred, I want to feel confident utilizing the MCMAP techniques to save my life or save the life of a fellow Marine," said Wilcox, a Marine Corps Reference Publication (MCRP) 3-02B. Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP), is designed for Marines to review and study techniques after receiving initial naming from a certified Marine Corps martial arts instructor or martial arts instructor trainer. It is not designed as a s… comprehensive T&R Program will help to ensure the Marine Corps continues to improve its combat readiness by training more efficiently and effectively. Ultimately, this will enhance the Marine Corps' ability to accomplish real-world missions. 2. The T&R Manual contains the individual and collective training The Marine Corps Martial Arts Program ( MCMAP, / ˈmɪkmæp /) is a combat system developed by the United States Marine Corps to combine existing and new hand-to-hand and close quarters combat techniques with morale and team-building functions and instruction in the warrior ethos. [1] The goal of the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program is to take every Marine from all walks of life and provide them with two things, hand-to-hand skills, and the warrior spirit. It essentially teaches a simple manual of arms to a group of people with likely zero background in martial arts. The program's simplistic style makes that possible the requirement, identify the fundamentals of the Marine Corps Martial Art per MCRP 3-02B (8550.01.01a) a. ENABLING LEARNING OBJECTIVES . Ma-1.02 2 (1) Without the aid of reference, given the requirement, identify the ranges of close combat per MCRP 3-02B (8550.01.01a). MCMAP was first widely adopted back in 2002, but it wasn't the Corps' first formal hand-to-hand combat training. It could be said that training in close quarters battle with knives and bayonets dates all the way back to the first forming of the Marine Corps in 1775, when Marines often fought in cramped spaces aboard ships. The Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP, /ˈmɪkmæp/) is a combat system developed by the United States Marine Corps to combine existing and new hand-to-hand and close quarters combat (CQC) techniques with morale and team-building functions and instruction in the Warrior Ethos. The program, which began in 2001, trains Marines (and U.S. Navy personnel attached to Marine units) in unarmed The Marine Corps Martial Arts Program (MCMAP) - Full-Size Edition: From Beginner to Black Belt… by US Marine Corps Paperback $14.79 U.S. Marines Close-quarter Combat Manual by U.S. Marine Corps Paperback $14.95 Customers who viewed this item also viewed Page 1 of 1 Start over Page 1 of 1 The MCMAP is a weapon-based system rooted in the credo that every Marine is a rifleman and will engage the aggressor from 500 meters to close quarter combat. The MCMAP: Enhances the Marine Corps' capabilities as an elite fighting force. Provides basic combative skills for all Marines. Applies ac