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RecruitParents.com Newsletter
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Congratulations to our newest Marines, 2nd Battalion Echo Company from San Diego and 3rd Battalion Lima Company from Parris Island, for graduating this Friday, October 21. A big Ooh-Rah goes out to you all!
We would also like to congratulate 3rd Battalion, India Company from San Diego and 1st Battalion Delta Company from Parris Island, who will be graduating next Friday, October 28.
Finally, we would like to congratulate 1st Battalion, Bravo Company from San Diego, as well as 2nd Battalion, Golf Company and 4th Battalion Oscar Company from Parris Island for graduating last Friday, October 14
For those of you who are just beginning your journey, we would like to welcome you and extend our congratulations! You're on a new journey to becoming a Marine Parent. The pride is indescribable, but you may feel you are in an unfamiliar world with a whirlwind of emotions and never-ending questions.
If you've been looking for answers to your questions, we can help you.
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Operational Security...Now?
As a family member of the military community, you are a vital player in their success. You may not know it, but you also play a crucial role in ensuring your loved ones' safety just by what you know of the military's day-to-day operations. You can protect your loved ones by protecting the information that you know. This is known in the military as, "Operational Security", or OpSEC.
*Image info: (USMC image/released).
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History of the Marine Corps
The Marine Corps started as the Continental Marines during the American Revolutionary War, formed by a resolution of the Continental Congress on November 10, 1775, and first recruited at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. They served as landing troops for the recently created Continental Navy. The Continental Marines were disbanded at the end of the war in April 1783 but re-formed on July 11 1798. Despite the gap, Marines celebrate November 10 as the Marine Corps Birthday.
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Legendary Yellow Footprints
The following is an excerpt from an April, 2009 Marine Corps article:
As the air brakes hiss, hearts beat faster, palms sweat, breaths become shorter and a bus of hopeful recruits are unified by the fear of the unknown.
These are the experiences of so many recruits who have passed through Parris Island's main gate.
Upon arriving, recruits are greeted by a drill instructor and ordered to get off the bus and onto Parris Island's legendary yellow footprints.
*Note: While this article was written in reference to MCRD Parris Island, the yellow footprints are a tradition at both Recruit Depots. In addition, recruits in San Diego also pass through double doors.
*Image info:
(USMC photo by Sergeant Jennifer Schubert.)
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Training Phase I:
Initial Drill Evaluation
The Initial Drill Evaluation tests each platoon's ability to listen to the orders of its Drill Instructor at this point in training, and is a demonstration of the unit's degree of discipline and esprit de corps. Drill is used as one of the first methods of transforming these recruits from civilians into Marines, and plays a large part on their development of teamwork and unit cohesion.
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*Image info: Platoon 2060, Hotel Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, march during an initial drill evaluation June 15, 2015, on Parris Island, S.C. The strict, particular nature of close-order drill teaches habits of discipline and reinforces teamwork in recruits.
(USMC photo by Private First Class Vanessa Austin).
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Training Phase II: Rifle Range Safety Rules
A Combat Marksmanship Instructor, or CMI, teaches recruits the fundamentals of weapons safety with their M-16A2 service rifle.
During Firing Week, which is the second week of marksmanship training, recruits hear the four rifle range safety rules several times each day. Recruits will hear these safety rules frequently for the rest of their time in the Marine Corps and many Marines remember them for the rest of their life.
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*Image info: (USMC photo by Sergeant Jennifer Schubert).
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Training Phase III:
The Crucible
The Crucible is a test every recruit must go through to become a Marine. It tests every recruit physically, mentally and morally and is the defining experience of recruit training.
The Crucible takes place over 54-hours and includes food and sleep deprivation and over 45 miles of marching. The Crucible event pits teams of recruits against a barrage of day and night events requiring every recruit to work together to solve problems, overcome obstacles, and help each other along the way.
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*Image info:
Recruits navigate through the Weaver obstacle during the Crucible Confidence Course at Edson Range, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California on January 6, 2015. (USMC photo/released).
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Base Access and More...
Do you have questions about Marine Corps Recruit Depot gates? Security? Accessing the Depot?
Are you looking for contact information for the Recruit Depot?
We're here to help. Use the links to find information about base access and more...
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San Diego
*Image info: Family members and loved ones applaud and cheer as the new Marines run by during their motivation run at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. The run signifies the last training event on the training schedule. (USMC photo/released).
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