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Rct. Jarrod Gamester, Platoon 2060, Golf Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, uses his utility blouse as a flotation device during water survival qualification June 9, 2014, on Parris Island, S.C. Recruits also leap from a tower into the water, swim 25 meters in full utility uniforms and shed their heavy gear in 10 seconds or less while underwater. Each exercise simulates a water survival technique recruits may need if they become Marines. Gamester, 18, from Deerfield, N.H., is scheduled to graduate Aug. 8, 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 Cpl. Caitlin Brink)
| Date Taken: | 06.09.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 06.30.2014 10:57 |
| Photo ID: | 1426312 |
| VIRIN: | 140609-M-FS592-238 |
| Resolution: | 720x480 |
| Size: | 171.74 KB |
| Location: | PARRIS ISLAND, SC, US |
| Hometown: | DEERFIELD, NH, US |
| Web Views: | 771 |
| Downloads: | 4 |
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