Photo Gallery: Marine recruits learn ropes in first week on Parris Island [Image 7 of 14]

PARRIS ISLAND, SC, UNITED STATES

02.03.2014

Photo by Cpl. Caitlin Brink 

Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island           

Staff Sgt. Michael Kyle, a drill instructor with Platoon 3024, Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, gives his recruits the command to form for a physical training session Feb. 3, 2014, on Parris Island, S.C. Within their first week on the island, recruits met the drill instructors who would train them for the following 12 weeks. Drill instructors like Kyle, 30, from California, Md., spend their first three days with their recruits teaching the fundamental commands and procedures that will be the foundation for the rest of their training. 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 19:04
• Photo ID: 1175083
• VIRIN: 140203-M-FS592-223
• Resolution: 5760x3840
• Size: 5.4 MB
• Location: PARRIS ISLAND, SC, US
• Hometown: CALIFORNIA, MD, US