A U.S. Marine recruit died after suffering a medical emergency during a physical fitness test at USMC Base Camp Pendleton, the military announced Thursday. <\/p>\n
The recruit, who was not identified pending family notification, suffered some type of health issue last Saturday and died at Tri-City Medical Center in Oceanside on Wednesday, the U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting Depot said. <\/p>\n
Specifics on the activity the recruit was participating in or the type of medical emergency suffered were not disclosed. <\/p>\n
“The matter is currently under investigation, and officials are conducting a medical review, both in accordance with standard procedure,” a statement from the MCRD said. <\/p>\n
Recruits go through four phases of training over 13 weeks, which culminate in a 54-hour final test. According to the USMC training website, during the test, recruits “face food and sleep deprivation, complete 45 miles of marching, and tackle a series of physical and mental challenges. It’s the ultimate test of what they’ve learned\u2014and it’s where they earn the title United States Marine.”<\/p>\n
It is unclear what phase of the process the recruit was in at the time of their death. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A U.S. Marine recruit died after suffering a medical emergency during a physical fitness test at USMC Base…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":805367,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[337,97,131949],"class_list":["post-805366","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-marine-corps"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805366","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=805366"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/805366\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/805367"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=805366"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=805366"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=805366"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}