A drill instructor from Mike Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, instructs a recruit to stop moving during pick up at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, April 28. 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. Mike Company is scheduled to graduate July 21.

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