Drill Instructor Sgt. Gerardo A. Laurido Jr., Platoon 2085, Hotel Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, encourages a recruit to move faster Aug. 25, 2016, on Parris Island, Laurido, 25, is from Lake Wales, Fla. Hotel Company is scheduled to graduate Nov. 4, 2016. Parris Island has been the site of Marine Corps recruit training since Nov. 1, 1915. Today, approximately 19,000 recruits come to Parris Island annually for the chance to become United States Marines by enduring 13 weeks of rigorous, transformative training. Parris Island is home to entry-level enlisted training for approximat

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Drill Instructor Sgt. Gerardo A. Laurido Jr., Platoon 2085, Hotel Company, 2nd Recruit Training Battalion, encourages a recruit to move faster Aug. 25, 2016, on Parris Island, Laurido, 25, is from Lake Wales, Fla. Hotel Company is scheduled to graduate Nov. 4, 2016. Parris Island has been the site of Marine Corps recruit training since Nov. 1, 1915. Today, approximately 19,000 recruits come to Parris Island annually for the chance to become United States Marines by enduring 13 weeks of rigorous, transformative training. Parris Island is home to entry-level enlisted training for approximately 49 percent of male recruits and 100 percent of female recruits in the Marine Corps. (Photo by Lance Cpl. Carlin Warren)

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