recruit training

Two recruits have died at Parris Island since June.

"How's anyone gonna see my war face if I'm wearing a mask?"

This is a big deal.

'Nothing [about] the way we’re organized right now lends itself to integrated recruit training.'

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 of Infantry, began years ago in a prison in Siberia, Russia, where she was born.

Hazing represents the opposite [of discipline]... it is the product of a lack of self-control and laziness.

The Marines say new reforms led to a a 64% decrease in substantiated allegations of drill instructor misconduct at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego.

One of the high school students who helped take down and disarm a gunman during a school shooting earlier this year graduated from Marine Corps Recruit Training on Sept. 20.

The barbers at boot camp don't so much cut your hair as they do shear you like sheep, rushing countless recruits through those chairs in a matter of minutes, leaving behind only quietly muttered curse words, a couple of scraped scalps, and the remnants of once magnificent hairdos.

"Although the previous decision was made by leadership in support of training efficiency, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island will continue to assess the results of India Company's training and future opportunities that may permit this company training model."

"I owe it to the Marine Corps, because they got me through the cancer. They gave me the mindset that I can do anything, and I'm very thankful for that."

Before newly minted Marines even reach the fleet, they spend months being inundated with knowledge and transformed from soft civilians...

Shortly after Platoon 3036’s graduation on May 15, 2015, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island received a letter from a...

John Stevens once “got a good shot” in the gut for a minor offense when he was a Marine Corps...

It’s official: The Marine Corps is adding a fourth phase to recruit training. In an Oct. 12 video, the service...

The Marine Corps is considering a plan to add a fourth phase to its recruit training regimen, multiple sources have...

For 19 young men and women, earning the title United States Marine was just one of their crowning achievements this...

Few things are more infantilizing than getting screamed at by a grown man because you failed to properly make your...

“We will give every effort to train you, even after some of you have given up on yourselves.” If this...

Welcome to Confessions Of, a weekly series where Task & Purpose’s James Clark solicits hilarious, embarrassing, and revealing stories from...

Marines’ graduation from boot camp marks the end to a gruelling, three-month journey. Through each phase, the recruits are challenged...

There is a right way and a wrong way to talk to a Marine Corps drill instructor. Then there’s the...

“Get off my bus right now!” This is how Marine Corps recruit training, or boot camp, begins. Some guy you’ve...