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MARINES is a coming of age docuseries following the members of the 31st Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU), the US military’s “force in readiness” in the Pacific. With unparalleled access to the US Marine Corps, the series offers an inside look into the rigorous trainings and emotional moments of young Marines as they forge bonds while grappling with the complexities of life at sea.

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00:00I want to join the Marines.
00:02Tell me what you know about the Marines.
00:04Um...
00:08Guns, fighting, shooting, training.
00:11Let's go now!
00:12Getting jacked.
00:16You're probably going to die in it.
00:21Marine Corps is a 911 force,
00:24ready to go fight tonight.
00:26If another nation declares war on us,
00:30these Marines will be the first to go.
00:34I'm a grunt.
00:36Someone that's going to do exactly what they're told.
00:38But we think too.
00:40We have feelings, alright?
00:46We're going to be sailing around for the next two months,
00:50and we have to go through training exercises
00:52to make sure that we are fit to the task.
00:54The average lifespan of an employed machine gunner
00:56is like seven seconds.
00:58I want to outlast that seven seconds.
01:00The training that the U.S. military does
01:02is extremely dangerous.
01:04You got to think that the adversaries out there
01:06are doing the same thing.
01:08They are practicing right now to kill you.
01:12A big part of you wants that conflict.
01:14You want to know that you have what it takes.
01:16After a while,
01:18it really just becomes about your boys.
01:20I didn't realize that until I started losing friends,
01:24because unfortunately I have.
01:30With how advanced weapons are getting,
01:32never has the battlefield been more lethal.
01:36We're in contact, we're in contact.
01:38There's always that underlying tension.
01:40Is everybody ready to fight?
01:50I can't think of anybody to be more ready than those.
01:52No.
02:02Millennials
02:08need to be waterproof.
02:10You
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