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Rct. Lyndsey Anderson helps Rct. Afriecka Weir with a helmet before she begins a pugil stick match March 20, 2014, on Parris Island, S.C. The recruits wear helmets, mouth guards and gloves as they fight in 15-second bouts with pugil sticks, large padded batons that represent rifles with affixed bayonets. Anderson, a 20-year-old from Boise, Idaho, and Weir, a 20-year-old from Brooklyn, N.Y., both with Platoon 4017, November Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, are scheduled 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. Octavia Davis)
| Date Taken: | 03.20.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 04.02.2014 15:16 |
| Photo ID: | 1217344 |
| VIRIN: | 140320-M-RV272-169 |
| Resolution: | 3840x5760 |
| Size: | 6.97 MB |
| Location: | PARRIS ISLAND, AL, US |
| Hometown: | BOISE, ID, US |
| Hometown: | BROOKLYN, NY, US |
| Web Views: | 118 |
| Downloads: | 1 |
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