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Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island (often abbreviated as MCRD PI) is an 8,095-acre (32.76 km 2) military installation located within Port Royal, South Carolina, approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Beaufort, the community that is typically associated with the installation.
On the night of 8 April 1956, Staff Sergeant Matthew McKeon, a junior drill instructor at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, marched his assigned platoon into Ribbon Creek, a swampy tidal creek. The incident resulted in the deaths of six Marine recruits. In the end, McKeon was found guilty of negligent homicide and drinking on duty.
The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act mandated the Marine Corps to integrate training at boot camp — by 2025 at Parris Island and 2028 in San Diego.
Sgt. Dylan Gillenkirk, left, instructs Trent Williams, 12, to shoot out his right arm as he rappels down the 48-foot wall on Thursday, Dec. 14, 2023, at Marine Recruit Depot Parris Island.
Parris Island trains 19,000 marines a year. Beals was assigned to Platoon 2040 in Company E after arriving at Parris Island on March 12, 2021.
The physical and technical training at Parris Island is laced with lessons on morality and values. Drill instructors hammer into recruits a rigid moral code of honor, courage and commitment with the goal, according to the Marine Corps, of producing young Marines “thoroughly indoctrinated in love of Corps and Country … the epitome of ...
Marine Corps Recruit Depot may refer to: Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island; Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego; See also
Last of three parts. When it was time for the graduation of Platoon 2040 in Company E last June at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, Stacie Beveridge Beals assumed she would be there ...