Recruits of Platoon 3042, of Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island’s 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, believed their drill instructors used the Marine Corps Martial Arts Program “as an ...

His best friend at Parris Island is Leonard Carter, 21, ... Fla., spent time in the sick-kid platoon before being cleared to leave in March - after eight months on the island. Like Henderson, ...

PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. (WTOC) - History will be made on Thursday on Parris Island as the Marine Corps deactivates its Fourth Recruit Training Battalion. Until 2021, it was the sole place women wanting to ...

Thomas “Jake” Weaver, 21, of Interlachen, Fla., a former member of 3rd Recruit Training Battalion who graduated from Parris Island in July 2015, said he and his platoon weren’t told to close ...

Lance Cpl. Kylie Hathaway broke her leg near the end of boot camp at San Diego. She spent three months recovering and then picked up recruit training with a new platoon at Parris Island.

Morgan Brown, center, a recruit at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island and a resident of Mechanicsville, Va., takes the Oath of Enlistment on Jan. 19, 2016, at Fort Lee, Virginia. Submitted A ...

The top leaders of the Marine Corps’ storied recruit training on Parris Island, South Carolina were fired in early July. The two senior Marines, Col. Bradley Ward and Sgt. Maj. Fabian Casillas ...

By Friday, the 65 women of Platoon 4034 and the equally large sister platoon in Oscar Company, Platoon 4035, will have moved into their permanent squad bays, or large hostel-like rooms, in the ...

COLUMBIA, S.C. (WIS) - For 105 years, Marines have gone through boot camp at Marines Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island in Beaufort County. South Carolina lawmakers hope this tradition continues.

"On January 5, 2019, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, will start their training cycle with one female platoon and five male platoons," the Marine ...