Marine Corps Installations West

U.S. Marines with Kilo Company, Marine Combat Training Battalion, School of Infantry - West, conduct two live-fire ranges on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, June 2, 2020. Marines with MCT have to learn how to shoot, move and communicate as part of a unit or squad. The mission of MCT is to give non-infantry Marines a foundational understanding of leadership and the basic tenets of maneuver warfare. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Lance Cpl. Melissa I. Ugalde)

Golf Company, Marine Combat Training Battalion (MCT), School of Infantry–West, graduated on Camp Pendleton, Calif., April 3, 2018 after 29 days of training. Golf Co. is the first integrated male/female MCT company on the West Coast. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Dylan Chagnon)

U.S. Marine Corps Lt. Col. Dennis L. Hager II, Commanding Officer of SOI-West, Headquarters and Support Battalion, speaks on the arrival of female Marines that begin the first phase of Marine Combat Training on Camp Pendleton, Calif., Mar. 06, 2018. This marks the first male-female integrated Marine Combat Training Company on the West Coast. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Andre Heath)

Staff Sergeant Albert Goodson, a combat instructor with the School of Infantry – West, has been named runner-up Marine Combat Instructor of the Year.