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Rct. Jordan Gardner, 18, Platoon 2048, Echo Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, writes a letter home June 16, 2013, on Parris Island, S.C. Gardner wrote to his mother to tell her about the approaching Crucible and that he would see her on Family Day, the day before graduation. The one hour of free time is only spent inside the barracks and is intended to be a relief period from the training day's 15 hours of close supervision and interaction between recruits and drill instructors. Gardner is from Oldsmar, Fla., and is scheduled to graduate June 28, 2013. 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 50 percent of males and 100 percent females in the Marine Corps. (Photo by Lance Cpl. David Bessey)
| Date Taken: | 06.16.2013 |
| Date Posted: | 06.25.2013 14:47 |
| Photo ID: | 960402 |
| VIRIN: | 130616-M-FL578-006 |
| Resolution: | 3328x4992 |
| Size: | 3.13 MB |
| Location: | PARRIS ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, US |
| Hometown: | OLDSMAR, FLORIDA, US |
| Web Views: | 163 |
| Downloads: | 4 |
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