Japanese locals and service members from Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, celebrate the Kintaikyo's 351st anniversary during the Kintaikyo Art and Cultural Festival, Nov. 9, 2024. The festival featured singing performances by local students, taiko drumming demonstrations, and paper lantern souvenirs. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Eliza Fremont)
Most Marines remember the three months spent in recruit training. For many, drill instructors are the reason it's so memorable. As if they were cartoon characters, drill instructors would scream in weird voices with veins popping out of their necks.
Pilots with the Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force Fleet Air Wing 31 took to the sky in celebration of a new year over Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni Jan. 7.
Some people anxiously sat down at the recruiting office in their local strip mall where there were large amounts of bodies walking in out of that place to listen to the person across the desk from them with a very peculiar haircut and starch ironed shirt trying to recruit them into the military.
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