A drill instructor with Alpha Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, teaches recruits the difference between their two sets of combat boots during pick up at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, May 12. 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 Aug. 4.

---

Size: 1732px × 1155px
Photo credit: © Ted Small / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: air, america, archive, armed, army, defence, force, forces, marines, mcrd, mcrdsandiego, mcrdsd, military, navy, recruits, reportage, sandiego, semperfidelis, service, serviceman, servicemen, soldier, states, united, usa, usmc, wemakemarines