Golf Company, Second Recruit Training Battalion, will graduate hundreds of new Marines at Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) San Diego today, Dec. 2, 2022. One of them, Lance Cpl. Madison D. Franklin, who was recruited out of Recruiting Station Indianapolis, has a particularly interesting distinction – she is the first female company honor graduate."Knowing that I'm the first female company honor graduate from the West Coast...it's not even about me," Franklin said. "It's so that every other female out there who has doubts knows that anything is possible. People say that, but not everybody believes it."Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego has been making Marines for 99 years, but until this past year, they have all been male. Female recruits
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“It’s a check engine light, but for your body,” said Kyla Driver, a research coordinator with the U.S. Army Research Institute of Environmental Medicine (USARIEM).The byproduct of many years of research, development, and redesigns, the Heat Injury Prevention System (HIPS) developed by the U.S. Army Medical Material Development Activity (USAMMDA) and USARIEM, along with several other research groups, is undergoing its final testing on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C.“All recruits are issued a heart monitoring system that they wear throughout the Crucible,” said Dr. Mark Buller, the lead investigator for the project. “This allows a drill instructor to see that he has recruits who may be higher risk of suffering a heat
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On October 24, 2021, 18-year old Kylie Hathaway shipped out to Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego from North Manchester, Ind. to begin her journey of becoming a United States Marine. After 48 training days, and two weeks shy of becoming a Marine her training was abruptly halted when Hathaway fractured her tibia.Hathaway was then placed in recovery at MCRD San Diego for two weeks. Female recruits who are injured on the west coast are required to be transported to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, where the fully-female recovery platoon exists, which became her reality on January 12, 2022.After spending three months in the Female Recovery Platoon (FRP), Hathaway was cleared to return to training with Echo Company, 2nd Recruit
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Marine Corps Logistics Operations Group, Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, hosted Exercise Maltese Dragon from Aug. 15 to Aug. 26, 2022 at MCAGCC. Maltese Dragon was designed by the Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory to inform the Expeditionary Advanced Basing Operations concept, and examine capabilities, capacities, authorities, and responsibilities assigned to Marine Logistics Support Group - Okinawa from campaigning to early phase maneuver during conflict with a peer adversary...
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U.S. Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island S.C. -- Training for America’s next battles will always involve risk. Creating an environment that simulates the many elements of warfare is an ever-changing obstacle, but the Marine Corps has always adapted to these obstacles. For Romeo Company, every recruit has their own opportunity to overcome.Romeo Company, formerly known as Special Training Company, is a rehabilitation, recovery, and reconditioning company with the mission of getting recruits back to the fight. In March 2022, Romeo Company moved into its brand-new home, with the mission of giving recruits the opportunity to return to training stronger and better.The foundation of Romeo Company’s accomplishments is not just a building, but
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