A recruit with Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, receives training aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, in 2022. (Lance Cpl. Trent A. Henry/Marine Corps ...

Lisa Taylor suffered through boot camp at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island 35 years ago. She did so in the Fourth Recruit Training Battalion, which for decades only trained women.

A former Parris Island battalion commander will face a general court-martial on charges stemming from incidents leading up to the death of Muslim recruit Raheel Siddiqui last year. Lt. Col.

Four male platoons graduated from Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in South Carolina as part of a battalion that -- until now -- has trained only women. Papa Company, 4th Recruit Training ...

New recruits for the U.S. marines during a parade, part of training on Parris Island in 1942. File photo/The Associated Press Each year, Parris Island “makes” about 19,000 new Marines ...

When then-Lt. Col. Germano took command of Parris Island’s 4th Recruit Training Battalion — the depot’s sole women’s training unit — in the summer of 2014, two of her drill instructors ...

PARRIS ISLAND — It was a unit synonymous with history. Almost 75 years ago when the Marine Corps began training women exclusively in South Carolina, a singular recruit battalion became dedicated ...

according to his biography. Before that job, he served as the commander of a Parris Island recruit training battalion from May 2018 to June 2020. Like Ward, McArthur first served as an enlisted ...

PARRIS ISLAND, S.C. (WTOC) - History will be made on Thursday on Parris Island as the Marine Corps deactivates its Fourth Recruit Training Battalion. Until 2021, it was the sole place women wanting to ...

STEVE WALSH, BYLINE: Women Marines and veterans packed a field house at Parris Island, S.C., to watch the decommissioning of the historic 4th Battalion. Sergeant Major Christine Henning says she ...

When then-Lt. Col. Germano took command of Parris Island’s 4th Recruit Training Battalion — the depot’s sole women’s training unit — in the summer of 2014, two of her drill instructors ...

All four training battalions at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island have been investigated for hazing during the past three years, according to documents obtained through an open-records ...