Marines from Hotel Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, march across the parade deck during a graduation ceremony at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Nov. 20. Graduation comes after the completion of 13 weeks of training and learning history, combat skills, and tactics, just to name a few. Today, all males recruited from west of the Mississippi are trained at MCRD San Diego. The depot is responsible for training approximately 16,000 recruits annually.

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