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Army medic Sgt. Matthew Lane tries to pin Pfc. Lionel Rodriguez, a motor transportation operator with Combat Logistics Battalion 1, during the Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Calif., submission grappling tournament Jan. 22. Participants came from military installations across the Southwest to test their grappling mettle.

Photo by Lance Cpl. Lisa M. Tourtelot

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Grappling tourney attracts Southwest service members

4 Feb 2011 | Lance Cpl. Lisa M. Tourtelot Marine Corps Air Station Miramar-EMS

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MARINE CORPS AIR STATION MIRAMAR, Calif. -- Approximately 150 active-duty service members from across the West Coast converged at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar Jan. 22 to compete in a submission grappling tournament.

Marine Corps Community Services, the MCAS Miramar Submission Grappling Club and Grappling-X, a tournament-hosting company, worked together to host the event.

Competitors, divided by weight and skill level, battled in both traditional gi and no-gi bouts. A gi-bout requires grapplers to wear a traditional martial arts uniform, but no-gi grapplers wear street clothes similar to what is seen on Ultimate Fighting Championship.

Participants spanned from first-time competitors to seasoned grapplers. The varsity submission grappling team from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Calif., which produced a large showing at the event, competes in tournaments at least once a month, and has traveled as far as Poland to grapple, said Corey Bennin, head coach of the team.

MCCS officials explained that they did not initially anticipate the number of competitors and teams who would register for the event.

Submission grappling is increasing in popularity, explained Shawn Fowler, owner of Grappling-X.

“This is a gigantic community,” said Fowler. “It’s a growing community, especially with the military. We see more and more [service members] training off-base.”

Todd Howard, the sports and aquatics coordinator with MCCS, explained that MCCS is planning to host these tournaments at least four times each year.

Bennin explained that in addition to its popularity among service members, the various martial arts practiced in submission grappling complement the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program.

“It gives Marines real-time experience in a fight,” said Bennin. “Marines learn to avoid fights in town.”

The retired Marine explained that the additional martial arts training reinforces the self control and decision-making abilities promoted by MCMAP.

Grappling-X is scheduled to post the tournament results on their website, www.grapplingx.com.

MCCS will advertise when they schedule the next grappling tournament.

The MCAS Miramar Submission Grappling Club and Competition Team invite all service members aboard the station to participate in their daily practices at Building 2525, from 11 a.m. until 1 p.m.


POLICY

The most important starting point for an EMS* is the development of an environmental policy. ISO14001 requires local governments to implement their own environmental policy. The environmental policy acts as a basis for the environmental management system.

PLANNING

ISO14001 requires that an environmental management system is planned properly. It requires the organization to consider the following carefully: Environmental Aspects; Legal and Other Aspects; Objectives and Targets; and an Environmental Management Program.

IMPLEMENTATION

The two requirements for implementation of an EMS is to define, document, and communicate roles, responsibilities and authorities, and to allocate the resources needed to implement and control the EMS.

CHECKING

The key requirement in this EMS step is to regularly monitor and measure key characteristics of activities and operations that could have a significant impact on the environment. Changes to EMS procedures may become necessary in order to deal with nonconformances with the EMS, with mitigating environmental impacts, or corrective and preventive action.

REVIEW

The management review process ensure that information is collected to enable management to carry out proper review. Top management review the need for changes to policy, objectives and targets, and ensure that a commitment to continual improvement is being demonstrated.

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