Fresh recruits are then marched through two silver doors, called hatches, at the receiving barracks. They are the symbolic threshold between the outside world and Parris Island. To walk through ...

The recruit arrived at Parris Island, S.C., on Oct. 24 and was undergoing ... medical screenings and paperwork called “receiving.” During receiving, there is minimal training and the recruits ...

Dianne Long Campbell, after more than 30 years, can still remember Parris Island’s suffocating ... famous yellow footprints outside the receiving barracks. “It ain’t gonna happen,” Sen.

The Beaufort County Coroner’s Office confirmed Munoz fell off a balcony at the barracks. Parris Island officials said the Naval Criminal Investigative Service is investigating.

But a source confirmed to Military.com this week that the recruit had jumped from the receiving ... third floor of a barracks building after beginning training with Parris Island's 3rd Recruit ...