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New Marines with Golf Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, are presented their Eagle, Globe and Anchor on Marine Corps Depot Parris Island, S.C., Aug. 24, 2024. The Eagle, Globe and Anchor ceremony is the final event of the Crucible and represents the transformation from recruit to Marine. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Kenneth Johnson)

During their first week on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, recruits are introduced to the struggles they will be facing for the next eleven weeks of training. From the moment the recruits step off the bus, they are expected to give maximum effort at all times. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Evelyn Doherty)

Recruit training brings a challenge to all recruits and to the drill instructors appointed over them in order to transform them into United States Marines. The senior drill instructor's speech entails the conduct of the relationship between the recruit and the drill instructor throughout their time in boot camp to become basically trained Marines. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Trent A. Henry)

Recruit training brings a challenge to all recruits and to the drill instructors appointed over them in order to transform them into United States Marines. The senior drill instructor's speech entails the conduct of the relationship between the recruit and the drill instructor throughout their time in boot camp to become basically trained Marines. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Trent A. Henry)

Approximately 19,000 of the country's most qualified young men and women come to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island annually for the chance to earn the title United States Marine by enduring 12 weeks of rigorous, transformative training. The symbolic Eagle, Globe and Anchor emblem and the title Marine are earned only by those who successfully complete each of seven graduation requirements and embrace the Corps' core values of honor, courage, and commitment. (U.S. Marine Corps motion imagery by Sgt. John Lamb, Sgt. Nathan McKitrick, Cpl. Scott Smolinski, Lance Cpl. Daniel Lobo, Lance Cpl. Debra Rookus, Lance Cpl. Jordan Canney, Lance Cpl. Devon A. Burton/Released)