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Gavin Kulczewski, a native of Aiken, South Carolina, receives a haircut as part of the accessioning process at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris...
Recruits with Golf Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, complete the Crucible on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., Nov. 3, 2023....
Recruits with November Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, conduct the Gas Chamber during chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear (CBRN)...
U.S. Marines compete in the Intermural Rifle and Pistol Competition at the Weapons and Field Training Battalion on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris...
Recruits with Echo Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, conduct the Confidence Course on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., Oct. 31,...
PFC Flannery graduates recruit training with record for the highest marksmanship score in depot history.
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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.
Michael Brown joined the Marine Corps on Sept. 29, 1999, where he served as a rifleman. In July of 2004, He received orders to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island to serve a tour as a drill instructor. It was these footsteps that his son Drew Brown decided to follow.
MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT PARRIS ISLAND, S.C.—The violence in Iraq was reaching its pinnacle in April 2004 as Marines bloodied their way through the first Battle of Fallujah. Sectarian clashes divided the nation as Marines with 1st Battalion, 5th Marine Regiment worked desperately to curtail the insurgency.
“It’s a check engine light, but for your body,” said Kyla Driver, a research coordinator with the