In the early 1960s, yellow footprints were painted on the pavement ... that more than one million Marines have stood on Parris Island as new recruits and taken this same first step.

It’s a storied tradition nearly as well known as the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island itself — the yellow footprints. New recruits, giddy with anticipation, board flights and buses ...

This is the first time the infamous Yellow Footprints appeared. To this day, upon a recruits’ arrival to Parris Island, they are ordered off of their bus, or van, and instructed to stand on the ...

Shipman arrived at Parris Island and stood on the yellow footprints painted on the ground outside the Receiving Building. It is on the yellow footprints that he had his first taste of military life.

Until 2021, it was the sole place women wanting to become Marines could train. Lt. Col. Aixa Dones stepped onto the yellow footprints on Parris Island back in 1994. “There’s nothing like hearing the ...

Parris Island, SC - WALB's Re-Essa Buckels ... lined up on the legendary yellow footprints; the first place all recruits stop, before learning about all of the do's and don'ts of bootcamp in ...

Among Marines, there’s an internal battle over who had it worse at boot camp: recruits at Parris Island or recruits at San Diego. Stepping out onto yellow footprints, living meal to meal ...

Editor’s note: A version of this article was originally published on Jan. 12, 2017. Maria Daume has since graduated Marine Corps Recruit Training, and graduated from the Marine Corps’ School ...