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MARINE BARRACKS, WASHINGTON \u2015 Four Marine infantry squads in their finest dress uniforms sit, eyes locked ahead, tracking the pacing of the most senior Marines in their Corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe infantry is the center of the Marine Corps, has been in the past, will be in the future,\u201d Commandant Gen. David Berger tells this collection of the finest squads he commands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The more than 40 Marines and field corpsman sitting on those bleachers, a stone\u2019s throw from the top Marine\u2019s home, represented their respective battalion this past year in a revived Super Squad competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sometimes with only one week\u2019s notice, they patrolled, shot, marched, called for fire and navigated their way through a multiday torture test of infantry skills.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then they had to do it again against the best squads in each division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The winners of each of the Corps\u2019 four divisions were flown here, toured the Marine Corps Museum, the Pentagon, other national monuments and historic sites and were honored during the only all-enlisted Marine evening parade held each year on Friday at the historic home of the Corps\u2019 top brass.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The man with four stars on his dress uniform reminds them that with this win they take on another responsibility.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThe infantry\u2019s the center of the universe if you are a Marine and you are the role models,\u201d Berger said. \u201cLike it or not, you are now a role model.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Troy Black already told the junior Marines in the group that their job is to return to this place, having won the competition in the coming years, but next time as the squad leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat sense of competitiveness, that really drives the rest of the institution to think, \u2018well if that squad can do it, my squad can do it,\u2019\u201d Black told Marine Corps Times. \u201cAnd that\u2019s really what we\u2019re trying to drive for.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sergeant Major of the Marine Corps Troy Black talks with winners of the service’s annual Super Squad competition at Marine Barracks-Washington in D.C. on Aug. 12. (Cpl. Ellen Schaaf\/Marine Corps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

The competition \u2015 revitalized in 2015 at the division level, but only in 2022 brought back to the home of the top Marine \u2015 comes at a time of transformation for the Corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It involves more than five days of patrolling, land navigation, marksmanship, combat skills such as call for fire and air support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Since Berger took over in 2019 his planning guidance and Force Design 2030 have altered major programs and units across the Corps. He has reduced the number of infantry battalions and battalion size.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Corps divested itself of three infantry battalions in recent years, going from 24 to 21.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

An infantry battalion traditionally has held about 900 Marines. Experiments brought that number down to 735 but, based on official accounts, the number likely will stabilize between 800 Marines and 835 Marines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During this period the squad went from its historic configuration of 13 Marines up to 15 Marines, adding a squad systems operator and assistant team leader.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Corps also overhauled infantry training as it pushes to keep squads together longer, train more and increase the rank at the leader level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

During the past decades of Middle East rotations, Marines at the rank of corporal or even lance corporal were leading reduced strength squads of 10 Marines on combat deployment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Corps plans to have sergeants as team leaders and staff sergeants leading squads as it matures the force.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 2022 winning squads were:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 1st Marine Division: 3rd Squad, 1st Platoon, Lima Company, 3rd Battalion, 4th Marine Regiment. Led by Sgt. Jose Torres.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 2nd Marine Division: 1st Squad, 2nd Platoon, Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment. Led by Sgt. Jesse Courtain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 3rd Marine Division: 2nd Squad, 2nd Platoon, Alpha Company, 3rd Littoral Combat Team. Led by Sgt. Eric M. Ayers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2022 4th Marine Division: 1st Squad, 2nd Platoon, Fox Company, 2nd Battalion, 23rd Marine Regiment. Led by Sgt. Devin Gould.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A lifetime honor<\/b><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Each Marine in those bleachers now sports a rare, coveted brass Super Squad badge with a relief image of an infantryman on the move, rifle in hand.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cEvery time you walk into a new company office, people will look at that badg e \u2026and they will assume you know what you are doing as an infantryman,\u201d Black said. \u201cPeriod. End of report.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A slightly older Marine with many more chevrons and hashmarks on his sleeves than those in the bleachers stood in the wings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He also had that rare, shiny infantry badge, though one with a bit more wear.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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A rare, serialized badge approved for service and dress uniform wear for the winners of the Marine Corps’ annual Super Squad competition. (Marine Corps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sgt. Maj. Howard Kreamer was the junior Marine in his squad in 1992 when he served as 1st fire team rifleman in 1st Squad, 3rd Platoon, Charlie Company, 1st Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had just turned 19 years old and was engaged to be married \u2015 Kreamer didn\u2019t know what to expect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He had been told in March 1992 that his squad would be competing. The next week he saw a \u201cdo you have what it takes\u201d poster in the 6th Marines chow hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The next three months were jammed with training, both standard infantry field work and preparation for each level of the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now serving as the command senior enlisted leader for U.S. Strategic Command, Kreamer credits that competition as setting a course for his life in the Corps.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The experience cemented lifelong bonds with his squad leader and fire team leader. The extra knowledge helped him win \u201cMarine of the quarter\u201d and later meritorious promotions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis kind of started my career snowballing in the right direction,\u201d he told Marine Corps Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Corps had a kind of informal super squad competition among its larger units for decades, some officials believe dating back to at least 1957. It was a 1994 Marine Corps order made the D.C. trip and recognition an official act, though it had happened before.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Throughout the 1990s it was the premiere competition by which infantry units measured themselves and contained serious bragging rights for the parent battalion of each squad that won their division.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then, 9\/11 happened and the Corps got a little busy for a few years. Officials paused the competition due to demanding deployment schedules.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was revived in 2015 but it was not until this past Friday that the winners were officially honored and recognized here at Marine Barracks-Washington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On top of the individual badges that winning squad members wear, each division winning unit takes home the Mitchell Cup, named for Cpl. Robert Mitchell, who was awarded the Navy Cross for heroic actions while serving as a squad leader in Fallujah, Iraq.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Marine Corps Pfc. Nicholas Stands (left) and Lance Cpl. Jonathan Pena, automatic riflemen with Co. K, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, check their surroundings during lane observation for Super Squad 21 at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, Aug. 24, 2021. (Cpl. Hannah Hall\/Marine Corps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Leading a squad<\/b><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Sgt. Jesse Courtain led 1st Squad, 2nd Platoon, Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 8th Marine Regiment, to victory at the 2nd Marine Division competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The 24-year-old squad leader grew up in Norton, Kansas and joined the Corps a week after graduating high school in 2016.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He has been on deployments to Spain, Okinawa, Japan, and on a float with the 26th Marine Expeditionary Unit.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was on deployment that his company commander told him about the competition, about two weeks before the first level began.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI was very confident in my squad\u2019s ability to accomplish everything we were going to have to do and get evaluated on in the competition,\u201d Courtain said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His competition took place at the Jungle Warfare Training Center in Okinawa, Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The fundamental skills were second nature for him and most of his unit. The terrain, however, presented its own challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unit\u2019s home base, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, is swampy, but it doesn\u2019t match the humidity or undulating terrain that the jungle center contains, he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Courtain didn\u2019t mince words. He told his squad that they were going to be hot, tired and aggravated throughout the five-and-a-half-day course.<\/b><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cBut I told them we\u2019re going to take it one event at a time we\u2019re going to shift our focus and fix on one thing at a time and we\u2019re going to put 100% effort into that one thing,\u201d he said. \u201cAnd after that one thing is over, we\u2019re going to reflect on it, recuperate, recover and then we\u2019re going to push on to the next thing.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Cpl. Jonatan Parra, a rifleman with 3d Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, plots points on a map during the 1st MARDIV Super Squad Competition at Camp Pendleton, California, June 15. (Cpl. Alexandra Munoz\/Marine Corps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Sgt. Jose Torres grew up Barrigada, Guam, and left home for the Marines in 2015. He deployed twice with the 11th MEU, doing stints in parts of Africa, Kuwait and Jordan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the middle of company assault training on Range 400 at his home station, Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center, Twentynine Palms, California, Torres got the proverbial tap on the shoulder that his squad was being tapped to compete.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

They had about a week to prepare for the regimental level events. Most of that was simply sharpening his squad\u2019s skills in the basics.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The unit had been together for a while, many of them since their time as brand-new grunts out of the School of Infantry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the most senior, he was technically the newest guy in the squad, having joined up with 3rd Squad, 1st Platoon, Lima Company, 3rd BN, 4th Marines in December 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThat\u2019s one of the things the squad had, they knew each other, they trusted each other,\u201d Torres said. \u201cIt was an easy transition for me to take control.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Torres credits his senior team leaders and his deployment training, advanced infantry schools and two years as a marksmanship instructor on the range for his individual success in leading the squad during the competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And recent changes to initial infantry training are showing utility, he said some of the new Marines in the unit were knowledgeable on skills he hadn\u2019t developed until he attended advanced training.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese guys know a lot more than I did and a lot of other junior Marines,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Making it happen<\/b><\/h4>\n\n\n\n

Behind the scenes, some slightly more salty infantry Marines pulled together the elements it took to get this competition back to the forefront of ground combat element vision.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Two of those Marines are Chief Warrant Officer 5 Matt Anderson, the gunner at plans, policies and operations, and Master Gunnery Sgt. Andy Anderson, infantry occupation field sponsor.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The master gunnery sergeant had started his infantry career as a mortarman and competed in the super squad events in 1997, reaching the battalion level.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The gunner\u2019s squad took second place at the division level in 1998 when he served with 1st Battalion, 5th Marines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Both see value in the competition beyond the division and Corps-level recognition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI honestly believe it refocuses these squads and brings out the brilliance of the basics,\u201d Master Gunnery Sgt. Anderson told Marine Corps Times.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The competitions give higher echelon unit commanders a \u201csnapshot\u201d of proficiency by pitting them against other Marine squads, Anderson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Though the Corps has changed the squad through Force Design 2030 and new tools now adorn the kit of grunts in 2022, the basics don\u2019t really change.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI don\u2019t think we\u2019re going get too far away from that last 100 yards that squad leader has to close with and destroy that enemy has proven time and time again that\u2019s what the focus point is for the squad,\u201d Anderson said.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sgt. Maj. Howard L. Kreamer, command senior enlisted at U.S. Strategic Command, was a member of the 1992 2nd Marine Division Super Squad competition winning squad. (Marine Corps)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Back at the bleachers, Kreamer has two messages for these winning squads.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Reflecting on his younger self, looking back to three decades ago, Kreamer asks the age-old question: Was this competition as tough as the one he faced in 1992?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cIt sounds like yours may have been a little bit more difficult than what we had to do,\u201d Kreamer said. \u201cIf anybody tells you its easier, they\u2019re freaking wrong.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Lastly, the outgoing Marine gave an informed pitch he hopes will fall on attentive ears.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cYou are talented, you have a talent for being an infantry Marine or greenside corpsman,\u201d Kreamer said. \u201cWhen you know you\u2019re good at something, you might want to consider sticking with it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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