In the brown hills of San Diego, California, and the humid flatlands of Parris Island, South Carolina, are the Marine Corps's recruit depots, camps where they still make Marines the old- fashioned way—with sweat and guts and the drill instructor's peerless ability to push a man to do what he thought he could not.
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Opposite: A drill instructor motivates a recruit at Parris Island to keep his M-16 rifle aloft; San Diego recruits endure their log-drill exercises; and recruits climb ropes on the Parris Island obstacle course. This page: All at Parris Island, the leg lift station of the circuit course; the rappelling tower; and the squat station of the circuit course, where recruits are reminding each other that “you get out of it what you put into it."
'Es / November 1988
This page: The San Diego Recruit Depot takes trainees to the Recruit Field Training Division at Camp Pendleton for two weeks of basic infantry training. Ten of their nights there are spent in the field. Parris Island has field training facilities on its own grounds. A trainee at Camp Pendleton reacts to a taste of the gas chamber, right; and another moves forward into his next fighting position at the command of “Rifleman, rush!" on Pendleton's grenade assault course. Opposite: A recruit fires his M-16 through the window position on the rifle range at Pendleton, top; and a coach at Parris Island shows his frustration after his trainees fail to shoot well.
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