Becoming a Marine (28 images)

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  • SF.Marines.#11.db.07-10... Marine recruit Gilbert Escobedo (cq) gets his generic Marine haircut on his first day as a recruit at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, where he will spend the next near12 weeks in training. Photo by David Bohrer/FTT.

  • SF.Marines.#8.db.07-11... A drill instructor uses recruit Bill Norris (cq) as a example to other recruits to show how a recruit should wear his Marine issued belt and camoflaged pants. This was about 5am on the second day of his arrival at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego. He and other recruits had already been awake and kept up for 25 hours at this point, and did not sleep until 12 hours later that day. Photo by David Bohrer/FTT.

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  • SF.Marines.#26.db.08-02... Marine Corp. drill instructor Sgt. Bruce Knapp (cq) yells at a recruit as he explains the multitude of causes for which the recruit has failed his first formal inspection, Photo by David Bohrer/FTT.

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  • SF.Marines.#19.db.07-31... Recruit Bill Norris (cq) screams respones to drill instructor commands during Bayonet Rifle training on his 22nd day of boot camp at the Marine Corp Recruit Depot in San Diego. Photo by David Bohrer/FTT

  • SF.Marines.#39.db.08-22... Marine recruit Gilbert Escobedo gets a earfull from Drill instructor Sgt. Bruce Knapp (cq) because he failed to get dressed fast enough and was lagging behind the speed of other recruits. .Photo by David Bohrer/FTT.

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  • SF.Marines.#43.db.08-22... Marine recruit Gilbert Escobedo stands yells in his underwear before bedtime, screaming the chant of "Ready to fight, ready to kill, ready to die, but never will." Recruits were forced to scream this chant at the top of their lungs before being allowed to climb into their bivouac for the night to sleep. On this night and all of the third of four weeks of training at Camp Pendleton during this second phase, recruits slept outside....Photo by David Bohrer/FTT.

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  • SF.Marines.#33.db.08-22... Marine recruit Gilbert Escobedo, now begins to take on the appearence of a Marine as he approaches the end of his second phase of training, despite that his mental state of mind and views of the Corps have changed little as opposed to many of the other recruits. Photo by David Bohrer/FTT...Photo by David Bohrer/FTT.

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  • SF.Marines.#47.db.08-22... Marine recruit Gilbert Escobedo, covered in dirt almost blending into the ground, practices various Marine combat crawl techniques during the third of four weeks of training at Camp Pendleton during this second phase. Photo by David Bohrer/FTT.

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  • SF.Marines.#79.db.09-28... Marine recruit Victor Rustandi (cq) got his pictures back just one day before graduation that were taken earlier in the month which are his official Marine portraits. Photo by David Bohrer/FTT.

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