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Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island (often abbreviated as MCRD PI) is an 8,095-acre (32.76 km 2) military installation located within Port Royal, South Carolina, approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Beaufort, the community that is typically associated with the installation.
Recruits learn marksmanship fundamentals and must qualify with the M16 rifle to graduate. United States Marine Corps Recruit Training (commonly known as "boot camp") is a 13-week program, including in & out-processing, of recruit training that each recruit must successfully complete in order to serve in the United States Marine Corps.
Until 2021, women only trained at Parris Island. Marine Corps boot camp is the longest basic training, excluding Army One Station Unit Training (OSUT), in-processing & out-processing is included unlike the other branches as the other branches do not contain this in their Basic Training duration length. [37]
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Last of three parts. When it was time for the graduation of Platoon 2040 in Company E last June at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, Stacie Beveridge Beals assumed she would be there ...
The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act mandated the Marine Corps to integrate training at boot camp — by 2025 at Parris Island and 2028 in San Diego.
Since the initial training pipeline is divided between coasts, Marines from areas east of the Mississippi River usually graduate from MCRD Parris Island and move on to SOI at SOI East (located at Camp Geiger, a satellite facility of Camp Lejeune in North Carolina), while those from the western half of the nation attend MCRD San Diego and move ...
Holly Williams, right, mother of Trent, talks with a drill instructor during her son’s training on the Day Movement Course on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, at Marine Recruit Depot Parris Island.