bases that the Marines have. It is know as America’s toughest boot

of drill, inspections, rifle practices, and grueling physical exercise.

The first thing I saw when we arrive at Parris Island is the infamous

You can’t really understand the meaning of them until you are standing

up to the footprints about midnight on January 26, 1999. The receiving

there waiting for us, he came on “his” bus and ordered us to exit

the yellow footprints and waited for the next order. From here we was

Once in the building I was told to make a phone call home to let my

arrived safely. My father answered the phone, and all I said was, “ I’m

would be the last phone call I would make for three months. Any other

In receiving, I was up for more than twent

Marines. It consisted of us being up for fifty-four hours, only having

after you learn how to use it. If you did not have your mask on right

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