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New Marines with Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, clean and return their rifles and gear to the armory on Marine Corps Recruit Depot...
U.S. Navy sailors with Navy Medical Readiness Training Command - Naval Hospital Beaufort hosted a celebration ceremony at the hospital, April 25,...
Marines with the 24th Marine Expeditionary Unit conduct night operations over Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., April 29, 2024. The...
Currently occupied for the U.S. Marines and recruits of Romeo Company, Support Battalion, Recruit Training Regiment, the installation was formally...
Pvt. Diaz graduated from recruit training with Lima Company on November 21, 2023. She said she is excited to resume her career with a new sense of fulfillment and purpose. “I feel like I’ll be a better police officer,” said Diaz. “I’ve learned more about professionalism and bearing and grown as a person during my time here.”
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Lundgaard said during his career athletic trainers have become a greater part of military culture. He said many athletic trainers who come in now want to provide care to servicemembers at elite units. But for Lundgaard, Parris Island is exactly where he wants to be. “For me this isn’t a job,” said Lundgaard. “This is a calling. This is how I want to serve.”
December 9, 2023, Pfc. Morgan Mathews is awarded her Eagle, Globe, and Anchor from her husband and recruiter SSgt. Charles Mathews. The EGA ceremony is one of the most important events in any Marines life, rarely is there an opportunity for a spouse to present a new Marine with the EGA. This moment was so emotionally impactful that neither party could barely say a word.
PFC Flannery graduates recruit training with record for the highest marksmanship score in depot history.
On November 1, Jack was designated an Honorary Marine at his home in Flowery Branch, Georgia, by Brig. Gen. Walker Field, the commanding general of Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island and the Eastern Recruiting Region.
Pfc. Nathaniel Laprade, a Marine with Hotel Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, Recruit Training Regiment, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, stands tall holding the Lead Series guidon unlike any before him.
With his Eagle, Globe, and Anchor secure in the palm of his hand, Pfc. Robert Ellason Barrow III added his name to a family legacy of over 80 years of military service.