--- title: "Marines recreate ‘living eagle, globe, & anchor’ photo — this time with hilariously tired and pissed off recruits" date: "2020-06-18" modified: "2020-06-18" authors: - name: "James Clark" job_title: "Editor-in-Chief" link: "https://taskandpurpose.com/authors/james-clark/" url: "https://taskandpurpose.com/news/marine-living-eagle-globe-and-anchor/" categories: - "Culture" - "Mandatory Fun" --- # Marines recreate ‘living eagle, globe, & anchor’ photo — this time with hilariously tired and pissed off recruits ![]() *Editor's note: An earlier version of this story was originally published on Feb. 7, 2019.* More than a century after thousands of Marine Corps recruits, drill instructors, and officers formed up to create a "living Eagle, Globe and Anchor," at Parris Island, South Carolina, another generation has done the same. But they didn't seem too happy about it. https://twitter.com/USMC/status/1093313392922701824 Posted to the [Marine Corps' official Twitter account]() on Feb. 6, 2019, the photos were meant to commemorate Parris Island's centennial anniversary by recreating a photo taken in 1919 when 9,100 Marines formed up on the parade deck to create a genuinely badass "living EGA." Yet the recreation, while Eagle-Globe-and-Anchor-shaped, was different in one key way: The Marine recruits involved in the recent photo looked fucking miserable, that or mildly amused, fast asleep, and/or really goddamn bored. ![]() *Brings you back, don't it?* Now, just compare that sampler platter of facial expressions to the original, in which Marines lounge about, almost lackadaisically, with a minimum of screaming, and not a single rage-filled drill instructor threatening recruits with endless hours of burpees if they don't "shut their nasty faces." https://twitter.com/JamesWClark/status/1093593089808220160 ## Author James Clark is the editor-in-chief of Task & Purpose. He is a former Marine and a veteran of the War in Afghanistan. ### Author social links [Twitter]() [LinkedIn]()