Among Marines, there’s an internal battle over who had it worse at boot camp: recruits at Parris Island or recruits at San Diego. Stepping out onto yellow footprints, living meal to meal, and being ...
Final Drill at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island (Boot Camp), is the last evaluation of the recruits' execution of close order drill. Final Drill tests drill instructors on their ability to ...
Marine Corps privates Jamil Winston Jr. and JuliMarie Winston are a husband and wife who prove that the couple that trains together can stay together. Both graduated on May 17 from boot camp at Marine ...
Clarification: This article has been updated to include a clarifying statement from the Marine Corps regarding the use of mixed-gender drill instructor teams. The Marine Corps has hit its goal of ...
In July, when a recruiter came to pick up their son bound for boot camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, Maureen Guarino remembers her husband telling her, “‘I don’t know how you keep ...
For the first time in its history, the Marine Corps will train men and women in the same barracks during boot camp, according to reports. Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island — the only ...