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

PARRIS ISLAND, SC, UNITED STATES

02.03.2014

Photo by Cpl. Caitlin Brink 

Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island           

Sgt. Jacob Wiley, a drill instructor for Platoon 3028, Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, ensures his recruits respond to orders loudly and confidently Feb. 3, 2014, on Parris Island, S.C. Drill instructors like Wiley, 26, from Princeton, Texas, spent their first three days with their recruits teaching boot camp procedures and expectations. 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 commands and routines. 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 19:06
• Photo ID: 1175093
• VIRIN: 140203-M-FS592-523
• Resolution: 4188x3312
• Size: 1.56 MB
• Location: PARRIS ISLAND, SC, US
• Hometown: PRINCETON, TX, US