Photo Gallery: Recruits dive into Marine Corps' aquatic life on Parris Island [Image 2 of 6]

PARRIS ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES

06.17.2013

Photo by Lance Cpl. MaryAnn Hill 

Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island           

Staff Sgt. David Cascio, a Marine swim instructor, tells Rct. Alexis Howell, Platoon 4026, November Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, to keep her head back and swim during her basic water survival qualification June 17, 2013, on Parris Island, S.C. Water survival training was designed to reduce fear, raise self-confidence and develop the ability to survive in water. Cascio is a 32-year-old native of Fort Lauderdale, Fla. Howell, a 19-year-old native of Parkersburg, W.Va., is scheduled to graduate Marine Corps recruit training Aug. 16, 2013. 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 for females in the Marine Corps. (Photo by Lance Cpl. MaryAnn Hill)

• Date Taken: 06.17.2013
• Date Posted: 06.21.2013 09:42
• Photo ID: 958333
• VIRIN: 130617-M-PG802-024
• Resolution: 3888x2592
• Size: 5.64 MB
• Location: PARRIS ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, US
• Hometown: FORT LAUDERDALE, FLORIDA, US
• Hometown: PARKERSBURG, WEST VIRGINIA, US
• Hometown: SEGUIN, TEXAS, US