Photo By Staff Sgt. Devin Phommachanh | U.S. Marine Corps Col. Lance J. Langfeldt, center, 6th Marine Corps District...... read more read more
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NEW ORLEANS—The 6th Marine Corps District Training Team Chief, Master Gunnery Sgt. Michael Rivas, looks around the room of familiar and new faces before he begins his opening remarks. This opening speech would be his last time addressing the career recruiters of 6MCD as the District Training Team Chief.
The District Commanding Officer, Col. Lance Langfeldt, and the district training team host the Career Recruiter Training Event (CRTE) annually to train and develop Marines in the 8412 and 8422 Military Occupational Specialties, Career Recruiter and Career Prior Service Recruiter. Traveling from seven states and Puerto Rico, Marines from the eight Recruiting Stations and Prior Service Recruiting Station 6 made their way to New Orleans from October 3-7, 2022.
First time attendees included the Marine recruiters who applied to be career recruiters. The Career Recruiter MOS is a lateral move option for successful Marine Corps recruiters to apply for as staff sergeants or gunnery sergeants.
“This team emulates what it means to be a Pacesetter,” said Langfeldt welcoming 20 new 8412s; the most career recruiters made in 6MCD. “When Eastern Recruiting Region and the Marine Corps Recruiting Command made the call to find more career recruiters, we answered that call as a district.”
Seminars filled the schedule of events, including billet specific focus groups for Recruiter Instructors (RI), Assistant Recruiter Instructors, Operations Chiefs, and Recruiting Substation Staff Noncommissioned Officers. Special guests Master Gunnery Sgt. Demetrius Bell, Basic Recruiter School Chief Instructor, and a team from the U.S. Military Entrance Processing Command taught classes involving evaluating basic level recruiters and Marine Corps applicants.
Additionally, three working groups were formed to discuss best prospecting, processing, and aggressive 8412 development practices used to overcome the challenges posed by one of the most unique years in Marine Corps Recruiting Command history. Rivas said, while addressing his fellow career recruiters, “The MOS description doesn’t do justice to the hard work and sacrifice of the Marines here in this room.”
Throughout the week, the DCO and the district operations team reviewed the fiscal year 2023 mission restatement briefs with each Recruiting Station Commanding Officer (RSCO). Langfeldt also made it a point to break bread each evening in groups with the RSCOs and RIs and hosted the professional dinner later in the week. Langfeldt and Rivas welcomed Bell as the evening’s guest speaker, as smartly dressed Marines celebrated the successful close of fiscal year 2022 together.
The professional dinner ended with inducting two 8412s into the 6MCD Hall of Fame: Master Gunnery Sgt. Kevin Boggs, RS Baton Rouge RI, and Master Sgt. Cody Branham, RS Atlanta RI. To be eligible for nomination, Marines must be a career recruiter for at least six years, have six years within 6MCD, and fulfill a staff role for an RS, District, Region, or at MCRC.
To wrap up training and emphasize the competitive nature of Marines, it was time to begin the CRTE culminating event. Every year team building events test the physical and mental strengths of the RSs for the prize of bragging rights until the next CRTE. This year, the culminating event sent the Marines out into the historic streets of New Orleans for a timed landmark study. Maj. Charlyne Lawrence, Recruiting Station Jacksonville Commanding Officer, and Master Sgt. Jose Manriquez, RS Jacksonville RI, led their team to victory with finding the most historical landmarks.
After four days of networking, professional development, and sharing best recruiting practices, Langfeldt addressed the Marines one last time. “You have dedicated yourself to the future of the Marine Corps,” said Langfeldt. “That’s why I love this MOS.”
For more information on becoming a career recruiter go to https://www.mcrc.marines.mil/Recruiting-Duty/Become-a-Career-Recruiter/.
| Date Taken: | 10.21.2022 |
| Date Posted: | 10.25.2022 15:52 |
| Story ID: | 431982 |
| Location: | NEW ORLEANS, LOUISIANA, US |
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