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Seaman Lyndon S. Jagroop, a field medical technician with Taqaddum Surgical, 1st Marine Logistics Group (Forward) and a 20-year-old native of Queens, N.Y., practices a Marine Corps Martial Arts leg sweep. When they're not combating patients' injuries, a few doctors and corpsmen at TQ Surgical are learning hand-to-hand combat, Marine Corps' style. Sailors recently attended Marine Corps Martial Arts Program, or MCMAP, classes a few hours every day for approximately two weeks. And though they all walked a little taller wearing their Marine Corps tan belts, for some of the sailors, their new sense of pride wasn't only located around their waists. "(MCMAP) has an effect that transcends well beyond the physical activity," said Capt. Michael A. Thompson, officer in charge of TQ Surgical. "It's a team building exercise," continued Thompson, 44, from Grandhaven, Mich., "it teaches leadership, it teaches cohesiveness (and) unit integrity." These sailors are deployed in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom in the Al Anbar Province of Iraq (MNF-W) to develop the Iraqi Security Forces, facilitate the development of official rule of law through democratic government reforms, and continue the development of a market based economy centered on Iraqi Reconstruction.
| Date Taken: | 12.04.2006 |
| Date Posted: | 12.04.2006 10:55 |
| Photo ID: | 33770 |
| VIRIN: | 061127-M-8187I-002 |
| Resolution: | 2160x1440 |
| Size: | 2.62 MB |
| Location: | TAQADDUM, IQ |
| Web Views: | 261 |
| Downloads: | 66 |
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Doctors and corpsmen practice hand-to-hand combat
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