Female recruits ride the bus with male recruits, but from the moment they arrive aboard Parris Island, everything is different. They’re sent to the back of the yellow footprints to form up ...

How should the Marines gender integrate Parris Island, ... It’s a storied tradition nearly as well known as the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island itself — the yellow footprints.

Marines love traditions. They get their first taste of them at Parris Island. Here are some of the biggest: 1. Yellow footprints. In the early 1960s, yellow footprints were painted on the pavement ...

The newest recruits of Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, respond to orders Feb. 1, 2016, on Parris Island, S.C. Recruits learn from the moment they step on the yellow footprints they ...

Female recruits ride the bus with male recruits, but from the moment they arrive aboard Parris Island, everything is different. They’re sent to the back of the yellow footprints to form up ...

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.

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 ...

WALB's Re-Essa Buckels got her first full day of Marine Recruit Depot bootcamp at Parris Island, South Carolina to study how Marines are made. Sixty educators, some from Jacksonville, some from ...

18-year-old Maria Daume’s path to the yellow footprints of Parris Island, South Carolina, which will culminate in her graduation on Jan. 13 before later heading off to the Marine Corps’ School ...

Stepping out onto yellow footprints, ... For Parris Island recruits, Gentry said, the colder the better. “If I could give anybody advice, I’d tell them to go in the wintertime,” Gentry said.

Female recruits ride the bus with male recruits, but from the moment they arrive aboard Parris Island, everything is different. They’re sent to the back of the yellow footprints to form up ...

Female recruits ride the bus with male recruits, but from the moment they arrive aboard Parris Island, everything is different. They’re sent to the back of the yellow footprints to form up ...