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Senior drill instructor Sgt. Fernando Horta Jr., watches as the soon-to-be recruits of Alpha Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, rush off a bus and onto the yellow footprints of Parris Island, S.C., on March 3, 2014. Horta, a 28-year-old from West New York, N.J., was the first drill instructor to greet the recruits upon their arrival at the island. Alpha Company is scheduled to graduate May 30, 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. Octavia Davis)
| Date Taken: | 03.03.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 03.18.2014 09:58 |
| Photo ID: | 1189078 |
| VIRIN: | 140303-M-RV272-453 |
| Resolution: | 5760x3840 |
| Size: | 5.23 MB |
| Location: | PARRIS ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, US |
| Hometown: | WEST NEW YORK, NEW JERSEY, US |
| Web Views: | 217 |
| Downloads: | 8 |
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