Photo Gallery: Marine recruits learn discipline, motivation through incentive training on Parris Island

Photo By Sgt. Caitlin Brink | Sgt. Joseph Ramey, a drill instructor with Platoon 3078, Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, conducts an incentive training session July 24, 2013, on Parris Island, S.C. Drill instructors use incentive training to instill discipline and motivation in recruits. It consists of physical exercises administered in a controlled and deliberate manner and is used to correct minor disciplinary infractions. Mike Company is scheduled to graduate Oct. 4, 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 Cpl. Caitlin Brink)  

PARRIS ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, UNITED STATES

08.05.2013

Story by Cpl. Caitlin Brink 

Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island           

PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. - Recruits of Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, endured an incentive training session July 24, 2013, on Parris Island, S.C.

Drill instructors use incentive training to instill discipline and motivation in recruits. Incentive training consists of physical exercises administered in a controlled and deliberate manner and is used to correct minor disciplinary infractions. The length of an incentive training session is based upon how far along recruits are in training. Mike Company is scheduled to graduate Oct. 4, 2013.

• Date Taken: 08.05.2013
• Date Posted: 08.05.2013 09:38
• Story ID: 111346
• Location: PARRIS ISLAND, SOUTH CAROLINA, US
• Hometown: DEVILLE, LOUISIANA, US
• Hometown: GAINESVILLE, FLORIDA, US
• Hometown: LIBERTY, INDIANA, US