But before they get there, it all starts here, at Drill Instructor School at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in Parris Island, South Carolina. Insider spent three days with a class of students in ...

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H. Huff. It was McKeon’s first platoon after graduation from drill instructors’ school, and he aimed to make it the honor outfit of the famed Parris Island boot camp. He encouraged the lads ...

Marine drill ... instructors are alarmingly common. The investigation documents seven in the past five years, three of them ...

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Drill instructor: Around, around, around! Kopke: It's boot camp, and it's supposed to prepare you for the challenges that lie beyond. Narrator: We spent five days at Parris Island, where we saw ...