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Sgt. Willie Tompkins, senior drill instructor for Platoon 1058, Delta Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, speaks to his platoon during “pickup” June 7, 2014. Pickup is when each drill instructor is introduced for the first time. Drill instructors will spend the following 12 weeks training the recruits to become Marines. Tompkins is a 28-year-old native of Brooklyn, N.Y. Delta Company is scheduled to graduate Aug. 29, 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: | 06.07.2014 |
| Date Posted: | 06.26.2014 19:14 |
| Photo ID: | 1422105 |
| VIRIN: | 140607-M-RV272-236 |
| Resolution: | 5760x3840 |
| Size: | 4.44 MB |
| Location: | PARRIS ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, US |
| Hometown: | BROOKLYN, NEW YORK, US |
| Web Views: | 1,296 |
| Downloads: | 10 |
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