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When a person hears combat engineer they tend to think of building or destroying things, but that’s not all the Marine Corps Engineer School teaches. The Marine Corps Engineer School trains Marines in the fundamentals of engineering at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune.
The school teaches lesser-known occupations such as the basic engineer equipment electrical system technician or basic water support technician. The students are taught at a fast pace and must retain the re required information in order to graduate.
"The stuff that we teach is extremely compressed as far as time," said Staff Sgt. Mario Perez, utilities instructor at the Marine Corps Engineer School. "It’s a very demanding course; if they’re up to the task, they’ll make it."
Students in the basic water support technician course learn how to purify, store and distribute water. The basic engineer equipment electrical system technician course teaches students how to service and the electrical generators that provide power.
"What we’ve been learning has been a lot of electrical and mechanical troubleshooting with the generators," said Pfc. Javier Acosta, student at the Marine Corps Engineer School. "The class has been very enjoyable and this helps not just in the Marine Corps but outside, because a lot of things these days run on electricity."
Clean water is a necessity in day to day operations and on the battlefield. Water support technicians purify and ensure water is safe for human consumption.
"This job plays a vital role overseas and in combat," said Staff Sgt. Sheldon Diaz, instructor at the Marine Corps Engineer School. "As we all know what happened in Haiti through that hurricane, Marines deployed with this piece of gear out there purifying our water so that whole station was able to drink purified water instead of the dirty water around that was caused by the hurricane."
The Marines that come out of the school help others around the world.
They support every Marine with the water and electricity they use.
"We go to just about every unit in the Marine Corps around the globe," said Perez. "We take the knowledge the experience that we have and pass it on to these new Marines that are going through the final course of their transformation. We push them out into the (world) and they do amazing things."
| Date Taken: | 11.29.2016 |
| Date Posted: | 12.01.2016 15:31 |
| Story ID: | 216105 |
| Location: | MARINE CORPS BASE CAMP LEJEUNE, NC, US |
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