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Company C recruits stretch out their abdominal muscles before a martial arts session at the Marine Corps recruit depot in San Diego, Calif., Aug. 18, 2006. Since August 2005, almost every drill instructor who has graduated from Drill Instructor School here has attended the Instructors’ Course at the depot’s Marine Corps Martial Arts Program facility.

MARTIAL ARTS STRETCH

Company C recruits stretch out their abdominal muscles before a martial arts session at the Marine Corps recruit depot in San Diego, Calif., Aug. 18, 2006. Since August 2005, almost every drill instructor who has graduated from Drill Instructor School here has attended the Instructors’ Course at the depot’s Marine Corps Martial Arts Program facility.

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