Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island

Student told to cover USMC uniform for high school graduation

By Gina Harkins on June 5, 2013 Boot camp, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, Military appearance, Recruit, Uniforms

A New Hampshire 18-year-old who completes boot camp this week is returning to his high school for his graduation, but was told he has to cover his new uniform if he wants to participate in the ceremony. Brandon Garabrant will graduate from Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island on Friday, WMUR reported. He’ll then fly back to New Hampshire to attend his high school graduation and was planning to wear his new Marine Corps uniform there. But his mom told WMUR that the school’s principal emailed her to tell her that all students should wear school caps and gowns to…

Video: Sounds of a drill instructor in training

By Gina Harkins on May 24, 2013 Boot camp, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Marines, Recruit, Training

Every Marine knows that drill instructors can yell, but you might not realize how much training they go through in order to be able to do it right. Military Times’ Senior Video Journalist Colin Kelly got up close and personal with some students at DI school aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. There, they learn how to project their voices correctly to avoid serious damage to their vocal chords. The staff noncommissioned officers run drills just like they will in boot camp to train their voices not to break. The instructors at the schoolhouse stand a set pace…

Marine recruit’s viral email from boot camp raises questions

By Gina Harkins on May 21, 2013 Boot camp, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego

A Marine Corps recruit’s supposed account of his boot camp experience is an entertaining read, but raises a few questions — including how he was apparently able to send an email to his buddies. The recruit, apparently currently attending boot camp at one of the Marine Corps’ training depots, is supposedly telling all his friends about how they’re called gay slurs by their drill instructors between 10 and 50 times per day. He also states that anyone with “brown-skin” is referred to as a “terrorist” and is the butt of consistent racist jokes. But he’s apparently telling them via email,…

Behind the cover: Drill instructors’ secrets

By Gina Harkins on April 8, 2013 Behind the Cover, Boot camp, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Marines, Recruit

They’re in your space, in your face, in your nightmares — but screaming aside, what’s really going on in the heads of Marine Corps drill instructors? Drill instructor duty is no joke. Whatever recruits do, DIs do. And the Marines on the three-year-long special duty assignment set the example for what it takes to become part of their Corps. That means yelling the loudest, moving the fastest and having the most squared away uniforms. Marine Corps Times was afforded access to drill instructors aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., recently to find out some of the secrets behind the…

Video: Brotherhood at boot camp — the legacy of Lance Cpl. Daniel Chaires

By Gina Harkins on February 15, 2013 Behind the Cover, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, Marines, Recruit

Harry Chaires and his wife, Nan Cuchens, recently traveled to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., to see their nephew graduate from boot camp. It was a bittersweet trip for the couple from Tallahassee, Fla., because it brought back memories of the day they watched another new Marine walk that same parade deck. Their son, Lance Cpl. Daniel Chaires, was killed in action during a 2006 deployment to Haditha, Iraq. He was an infantry rifleman with Echo Company, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Marines. And the Marine left quite the impression on his young cousin, Anthony Cuchens Jr. Cuchens joined the Corps as…

Behind the cover: Brotherhood at boot camp

By Gina Harkins on February 11, 2013 Behind the Cover, Boot camp, Infantry, Iraq, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island

While sitting in a squad bay listening to a core values discussion aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., Anthony Cuchens Jr. thought the ambush his senior drill instructor was describing sounded familiar. Sgt. Nicholas Lanier was telling his recruits about the day he lost his friend and former roommate to sniper fire in Haditha, Iraq in 2006. As details emerged, Cuchens said he felt chills run through his body — he knew this story. That’s when the new recruit, still in phase one of boot camp, stood up and asked his DI if the name Lance. Cpl.…

‘Cpl. Sensitive’ proposes to new Marine at boot camp graduation

By Gina Harkins on January 11, 2013 Family Day, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, Recruit

When you think about some of the most romantic places you’ve been, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., probably doesn’t top that list. But Cpl. Jonathan Camp said his boot camp graduation day was one of the happiest of his life. So when his girlfriend, Pfc. Kathleen Finn, had her own graduation day there, Camp thought it’d be the perfect place to ask her to marry him. Camp, 21, is an infantryman currently working on recruiting assistance duty in Erie, Pa. He drove nearly 15 hours down to Parris Island to see Finn, 22, graduate. He brought poolees –…

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