The U.S. Marine Corps in Crisis
Subtitle: Ribbon Creek and Recruit Training
Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
Published: January 1990
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9780872496354
Subjects: Naval forces & warfare; POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Special & elite forces; United States.; Marines; Military-Political Relationships; Technology & Industrial Arts; United States; History: American; Military Science; Basic training (Military education); 20th century; Basic training (Military educa; History; Marine Corps
First sentence: Formal recruit training for Marines began early in the second decade of the twentieth century; this task became Parris Island's primary mission in 1915.