For the first time, women become Marines at San Diego recruit depot 3 hours ago Marine Corps Recruit Jazzmin Stewart with Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, shoots in the sitting position during a slow-fire drill as part of the prequalifications at Edson Range aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, April 11. (Sgt. Sarah Ralph/Marine Corps) For the first time in history women were handed an Eagle, Globe and Anchor and made Marines at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. While boot camp is still not over for the 53 women in Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, they did complete the crucible Thursday morning, earning the title of Marine.
Having COVID doesn’t guarantee immunity, study of Marine recruits finds Recruits train aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. (Lance Cpl. Devin Darden/Marine Corps) Have you had COVID? Think you’re immune from it in the future? Think again, according to the results of a new study of Marine Corps recruits. Ten percent of the recruits whose blood tested positive for COVID-19 antibodies before training were re-infected with COVID while in basic training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina. The findings make a strong argument for healthy young Americans to get vaccinated, according to researchers.
First male Marine Corps recruits graduate from previously all-female boot camp battalion 2 hours ago Marines with Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, graduate recruit training aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island South Carolina, Mar. 26, 2021. (Lance Cpl. Samuel C. Fletcher/Marine Corps) The previously all-female 4th Recruit Training Battalion has graduated four of its first-ever male platoons alongside two female platoons and included the first male drill instructors assigned within the battalion. On March 26, Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, completed training and graduated with the coed mix at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina, according to a Marine Corps statement.
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In First, Male Marines Graduate From Historically All-Female Boot Camp Training Battalion
U.S. Marines with Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, graduate recruit training aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island S.C., Mar. 26 2021. (U.S. Marine Corps/Lance Cpl. Samuel C. Fletcher)
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Four male platoons graduated from Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina as part of a battalion that until now has trained only women.
Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, completed boot camp with four male and two female platoons, the Marine Corps announced Wednesday. Coed companies have been training at Parris Island since 2019, but this was the first time men have been assigned to 4th Recruit Training Battalion.