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    Photo Gallery: Marine recruits’ cleaning, care keep rifles ready on Parris Island [Image 4 of 8]

    Photo Gallery: Marine recruits’ cleaning, care keep rifles ready on Parris Island

    PARRIS ISLAND, SC, UNITED STATES

    02.18.2014

    Photo by Cpl. Octavia Davis 

    Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island           

    Rct. Luis Lascarro Romero, Platoon 1012, Bravo Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, reassembles his rifle after cleaning it Feb. 18, 2014, on Parris Island, S.C. Recruits learn that maintaining a clean, functional weapon could prove the difference between life and death on the battlefield. Lascarro Romero, a 21-year-old native of Belleville, N.J., is scheduled to graduate Feb. 28, 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. Octavia Davis)

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    Date Taken: 02.18.2014
    Date Posted: 02.26.2014 21:14
    Photo ID: 1175268
    VIRIN: 140218-M-RV272-199
    Resolution: 5760x3840
    Size: 4.32 MB
    Location: PARRIS ISLAND, SC, US
    Hometown: BELLEVILLE, NJ, US

    Web Views: 87
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