Rct. Brandt Kinder, Platoon 3036, Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, practices an unarmed martial arts technique March 10, 2014, during a training session on Parris Island, S.C. Recruits learn defensive and offensive techniques from the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program throughout the first month of training. They are tested on these techniques and must pass the first level of the program and earn a tan belt in order to graduate. Kinder, 23, from Evansville, Ind., 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)
| Date Taken: | 03.10.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 03.16.2014 20:24 |
| Photo ID: | 1188266 |
| VIRIN: | 140310-M-FS592-104 |
| Resolution: | 5760x3840 |
| Size: | 4.96 MB |
| Location: | PARRIS ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, US |
| Hometown: | EVANSVILLE, INDIANA, US |
| Web Views: | 263 |
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