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Staff Sgt. Martino Patterson, a drill instructor for Platoon 3036, Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, encourages his recruits to move with intensity March 1, 2014, on Parris Island, S.C. The recruits of Platoon 3036 had just learned Patterson, 29, from Buffalo, N.Y., would be one of the drill instructors responsible for transforming them into Marines over the next 12 weeks. Mike Company is scheduled to graduate May 23, 2014. Parris Island has been the site of Marine Corps recruit training since Nov. 1, 1915. Today, approximately 20,000 recruits come to Parris Island annually for the chance to become United States Marines by enduring 13 weeks of rigorous, transformative training. Parris Island is home to entry-level enlisted training for 50 percent of males and 100 percent of females in the Marine Corps. (Photo by Cpl. Caitlin Brink)
| Date Taken: | 03.01.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 03.06.2014 21:24 |
| Photo ID: | 1180813 |
| VIRIN: | 140301-M-FS592-459 |
| Resolution: | 5760x3840 |
| Size: | 5.88 MB |
| Location: | PARRIS ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, US |
| Hometown: | BUFFALO, NEW YORK, US |
| Web Views: | 1,173 |
| Downloads: | 11 |
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