First Women Graduate from Marine Boot Camp at San Diego
New Marines of Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, during a graduation ceremony at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, May 6, 2021. These Marines were the first females to graduate recruit training in San Diego. (U.S. Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Grace J. Kindred)
7 May 2021
For the first time, women have graduated from the U.S. Marine Corps boot camp in San Diego.
The graduation of dozens of women from Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego on Thursday as part of Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, the camp s first ever coed company marks a significant milestone in the service s effort to expand training opportunities for female Marines. Congress ordered the Corps in 2019 to make its two boot camps at Parris Island, South Carolina, and San Diego completely coed.
This was the first opportunity for men and women to train together at MCRD San Diego.
Together, five platoons of male recruits and one platoon of female recruits, totaling 53 women and 344 men, completed the same grueling 13-week course and met the high standards of one of the most difficult entry-level training courses in the U.S. military.
KUSI’s Jason Austell has all the details.
On Good Morning San Diego, Austell spoke with family and friends of the graduate who were anxiously waiting for the ceremony. Marine veteran Robert Sanchez said he was honored to serve, and would do it again if he could.
Graduation Day for first female Marines ever trained on West Coast
Marking a major Marine milestone, a platoon of women become first to graduate from MCRD San Diego. The 53 female Marines completed the region s first co-ed boot camp Author: Heather Hope (Reporter) Updated: 11:30 PM PDT May 6, 2021
SAN DIEGO Marching into Marine history, nearly 400 former recruits graduated the Marine Corps’ first integrated boot camp in the western United States on Thursday. The solemn day brought mixed emotions for the Marines.
“I am feeling overjoyed quite a bit. It’s unbelievable. It feels like a dream I am floating on here,” said Marine Private First Class Raymie Auldridge.
Nathan Paul Shull was born on July 11,1977 in Tucson, Arizona and departed this earthly life on April 29, 2021 in Minden, Louisiana.
Nathan was preceded in death by his father, Gerald Shull. He is survived by his mother Rachel Shull of Minden; sons Reid Hadley of Houston, Delaware, Brody Luke Shull and Silas Paul Shull of Minden; two sisters, Anna Booher and husband Craig of Middletown, Connecticut and Jessica Adams and husband Joe of Minden, Louisiana ; grandmother Helen Williams, of Tucson, Arizona; nieces and nephews Lauren, Joseph, Josiah, Rebekah, Samuel, Caroline and Aliyah.
Nathan and his father, mother and two sisters moved to Louisiana when he was 5 years and he grew up in Minden, while attending church at Evening Light Tabernacle. He attended Mount Olive Christian School and was a graduate of Sibley High School Class of 1995. He then graduated from the United States Naval Academy as a member of the Class of 1999, and was commissioned a Second Lieutenant in the Uni
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