Photo Gallery: Parris Island recruits build strength, endurance, speed using Marine Corps martial arts [Image 3 of 5]

PARRIS ISLAND, SC, UNITED STATES

12.12.2013

Photo by Lance Cpl. MaryAnn Hill 

Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island           

Rct. Benjamin Murphy breaks free from a martial arts technique by Rct. Mason Finney during an endurance course Dec. 12, 2013, on Parris Island, S.C. The course consists of different stations at which recruits such as Murphy and Finney, both with Platoon 1002, Alpha Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, practice martial arts techniques they learned earlier in training to increase their proficiency, strength and endurance. The course is part of the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program, which combines hand-to-hand combat skills with mental discipline and character development to help transform recruits into honorable warriors. Murphy, a 19-year-old native of Mahopac, N.Y., and Finney, a 19-year-old native of Mobile, Ala., are scheduled to graduate Jan. 24, 2014. Parris Island has been the site of Marine Corps recruit training since Nov. 1, 1915. Today, approximately 20,000 recruits come to Parris Island annually for the chance to become United States Marines by enduring 13 weeks of rigorous, transformative training. Parris Island is home to entry-level enlisted training for 50 percent of males and 100 percent of females in the Marine Corps. (Photo by Lance Cpl. MaryAnn Hill)

• Date Taken: 12.12.2013
• Date Posted: 12.19.2013 22:05
• Photo ID: 1141785
• VIRIN: 131212-M-PG802-050
• Resolution: 3840x5760
• Size: 5.8 MB
• Location: PARRIS ISLAND, SC, US
• Hometown: MAHOPAC, NY, US
• Hometown: MOBILE, AL, US