A senior drill instructor with Alpha Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, instructs his recruits to stop in place during pick up at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Jan. 13. During the first few hours the drill instructors are with their new recruits they will teach them the in-house procedures they must follow for the rest of recruit training. Annually, more than 17,000 males recruited from the Western Recruiting Region are trained at MCRD San Diego. Alpha Company is scheduled to graduate April 7.

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