One of the milestones of Marine Corps boot camp is when recruits take a break from getting IT’d to get their official photo taken. They stand in a long line to briefly slip on a modified dress uniform ...
This “boot camp” is designed to give school-age children a glimpse of life as an enlisted Marine while simultaneously emphasizing the importance of community. In another sense, the event also helped ...
From buzz cuts and bed inspections to early wake-up calls and all-day training, boot camp is a crash course in discipline, grit, and growing up fast. Young recruits are tossed into a world of grueling ...
Performances in N.Y.C. Advertisement Supported by Before he served in Iraq, Román Baca was a ballet dancer. Now he helps other veterans deal with their trauma — through dance. By Brian Seibert ...
The year is 1990, and closeted gay teen Cameron has just had his head shaved and clothes stripped, and he’s eaten lunch scraps out of the bin. It’s not quite the summer camp adventure Cameron had ...
A Marine corporal from a family of Marines welcomed her brother into the Corps during a ceremony after the final test of boot camp, a moment caught on video by their father, a Marine veteran. The clip ...
A screenshot of a video posted to Reddit after a Marine recruit fled Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego and was apprehended. (Screenshot/Reddit) A Marine Corps recruit fled boot camp earlier this ...
As a closeted gay teen growing up in Glendale, Arizona, in the 1990s, Andy Parker once invited a Marine Corps recruiter to his house to convince his conservative, evangelical parents to let him join ...
Christy Sauro went to his first Twins game a few weeks after graduating from North St. Paul High School in June 1967. He didn’t even make it to the seventh-inning stretch. Sauro was one of 150 young ...