MCRD San Diego Marines

Unlike training at Parris Island, recruits must leave the depot to conduct field training. At the conclusion, recruits return to MCRD San Diego for graduation.

Third Recruit Training Battalion conducts recruit training, ensuring recruits complete required events and meet the objectives of recruit training, in order to transform recruits into basically trained Marines prepared to meet the challenges of their foll Three weeks of the recruit’s training is spent at Edson Range aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, where recruits fire on the rifle range, c  ...