Photo Gallery: Marine recruits learn ropes in first week on Parris Island [Image 4 of 14]

PARRIS ISLAND, SC, UNITED STATES

02.03.2014

Photo by Cpl. Caitlin Brink 

Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island           

Staff Sgt. Tyler Montague, a chief drill instructor with Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, demonstrates proper form for a physical training exercise Feb. 3, 2014, on Parris Island, S.C. Drill instructors like Montague, 26, from San Francisco, are responsible for ensuring recruits learn ways to improve fitness while preventing injuries. The formal 70-day training schedule begins about a week after recruits arrive on Parris Island; recruits spend the first week in-processing and learning basic procedures and expectations. Lima Company is scheduled to graduate April 25, 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: 02.03.2014
• Date Posted: 02.26.2014 19:03
• Photo ID: 1175080
• VIRIN: 140203-M-FS592-482
• Resolution: 5760x3840
• Size: 6.12 MB
• Location: PARRIS ISLAND, SC, US
• Hometown: SAN FRANCISCO, CA, US