Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego's main mission is the initial training of USMC enlisted recruits living west of the Mississippi River. Over 21,000 recruits are trained at MCRD each year.

Only this time, for the first time, 60 women were among those scrambling recruits. Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego was no longer a men-only institution. In 2019, Congress ordered the San ...

Nearly 50 years after graduating from boot camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, Marine veteran Ron Marquez watched from the crowd as the depot celebrated its 100th birthday the way only ...

In a historic first, female recruits will begin training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in California starting early next year. “Beginning Feb. 12, 2021, an integrated company of male ...

The Marine Corps Recruit Depot (MCRD) is located on Parris Island and several smaller islands approximately 4 miles south of the City of Beaufort, South Carolina. About 19,000 recruits are trained ...

Marine Corps Sgt. Maj. Gerardo E. Trevino was arrested last week by the Naval Criminal Investigative Service and relieved as senior enlisted leader for Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego.

Ceremonies will be more festive at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot as families are welcomed back onto the San Diego base to watch their new Marines graduate. Starting April 22, Marines will be able ...

Private First Class Noah Evans, 21, died Tuesday at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, the Marine Corps released in a statement. Evans, of Decatur, Georgia, had been assigned to Mike ...

Gen. Angela Salinas is set Friday to become the first woman to command the Marine Corps Recruit Depot here. Salinas, a 32-year veteran of the Corps, will succeed Maj. Gen. John Paxton Jr., who has ...

completed the 13-week training course at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. Family and friends reunited with their Marines during a graduation ceremony on Friday. The day before graduation ...

The Marine Corps has opened an investigation in South Carolina after a 21-year-old recruit died during a physical fitness test on Tuesday. The recruit, Noah Evans, was training at Marine Corps ...