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    Photo Gallery: Marine recruits survive first encounter with Parris Island drill instructors [Image 8 of 12]

    Photo Gallery: Marine recruits survive first encounter with Parris Island drill instructors

    PARRIS ISLAND, SC, UNITED STATES

    03.01.2014

    Photo by Cpl. Caitlin Brink 

    Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island           

    Staff Sgt. Travis Durham, a drill instructor with Platoon 3032, Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, ensures each recruit has his blue money valuable bag March 1, 2014, on Parris Island, S.C. The recruits of Platoon 3032 had just learned Durham, 36, from Macon, Ga., would be one of the drill instructors responsible for molding them into Marines over the following 12 weeks. Mike Company is scheduled to graduate May 23, 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)

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    Date Taken: 03.01.2014
    Date Posted: 03.06.2014 21:27
    Photo ID: 1180819
    VIRIN: 140301-M-FS592-053
    Resolution: 5760x3840
    Size: 5.07 MB
    Location: PARRIS ISLAND, SC, US
    Hometown: MACON, GA, US

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