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    Lima Company Swim Week

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    Lima Company Swim Week

    Lima Company Swim Week

    09.25.2023 | Photo by Pfc. Micah Bower
    Recruits with Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, conduct swim qualification on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., Sep. 25,...
    Kilo Company Range

    Kilo Company Range

    09.18.2023 | Photo by Lance Cpl. Ava Alegria
    Recruits with Kilo Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, conduct Table 1 pre-qualification on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C.,...

    Recent Videos

    Heart and Soul

    Heart and Soul

    08.29.2023 | Video by Cpl. Zachary Foshee
    Marine Corps Recruit Training tests the recruits’ physical fitness, mental fortitude, discipline and moral values. The Marine Corps core values...
    Rappel Tower

    Rappel Tower

    08.28.2023 | Video by Cpl. Luis Ponce Alavez
    The Marine Corps recruit training evolution is designed to create basically trained Marines, ensuring the fundamentals of our Warrior Ethos have...

    Recent News Stories

    Big Shoes To Fill

    Big Shoes To Fill

    08.24.2023 | Story by Lance Cpl. Ava Alegria
    U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Robert Ellason Barrow III, a Marine with Delta Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, continued his family’s legacy of...

    The 80 Year History of Women Marines at Parris Island

    Women have worked and trained at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island since 1943. For the past eighty years, the Marine Corps has used the depot and recruit training as the foundation to define the roles and responsibilities for servicewomen. As the Marine Corps prepares for 21 century warfare, the roles of women in uniform have become indistinguishable from men— and so has their training.

    Graphics

    Happy Father's Day

    Happy Father's Day

    06.15.2023 | Graphics by Pfc. Micah Bower
    This graphic illustration was created to celebrate Father's Day aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., June 15, 2023. This...
    Happy Earth Day

    Happy Earth Day

    03.27.2023 | Graphics by Pfc. Micah Bower
    This Graphic Illustration was created to celebrate Earth Day aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. and was created Mar 27, 2023....
    Just Hydrate

    Just Hydrate

    03.23.2023 | Graphics by Lance Cpl. Trion Jenkins
    This graphic was created at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina, March 23, 2023. As the seasons shift from winter to spring...