What the barracks look like, where the US Marines live and train

The Marine Corps Recruiting Depot Parris Island, which annually produces about 20 thousand new Marines, was opened in 1915. The 12-week training program is rightly considered one of the most difficult for recruits of the US Armed Forces. After all, the legendary instructors of Parris Island (known primarily for their cruelty) are trying their best to make sure that every second of the recruits' time is used for its intended purpose.

The main road leading to Parris Island.

There are gorgeous views along the way.

If suddenly one of the recruits decides not to run along the main road, there are vast swamps teeming with hungry alligators around.

The first thing recruits do when they get off the bus is line up on the famous yellow tracks.

Relatives can attend the graduation ceremony.

This is what the barracks looks like.

There are three "decks" in it, on each of which a training platoon with 60-85 recruits lives.

The back door through which the recruits go outside. The front door is for instructors only.

Each recruit has a drawer for storing hygiene items and personal belongings.

The whole life of a rookie is in this box.

All available space is used in the barracks.

Graduation is coming soon, and the conscripts are already preparing clothes for departure.

Uniforms are neatly stored on hangers.

Folded towels hang on the headboards of the beds.

It is also necessary to make the beds uniformly.

6 inches of the top sheet with a blanket should be folded, leaving 12 inches of the sheet and forming exactly "18 inches of white" at the headboard.

The height of the second tier of beds.

Recruits sleep with their heads in a staggered order to avoid the rapid spread of diseases in the platoon — during grueling training, someone always gets sick.

Throughout the course, recruits learn the rules of the Marine Corps as part of a comprehensive indoctrination program.

They will have to take a written exam.

In the front part of the deck there is a small "gym".

To the left of the gym is the instructors' room.

Recruits who want to turn to instructors should stand on these tracks and slap on the handprint.

If suddenly someone forgets, there is also an instruction hanging there.

It looks something like this.

On the right side there is a huge room for toilets and showers.

The instructions above explain that the color of urine indicates the hydration of the body.

Soap and hand sanitizers are in strict order. Where about 80 people live together, great attention is paid to hygiene.

By the way, there are no doors in the toilets so that the recruits could not hide from the instructors.

And again a poster with useful information for recruits.

Toilet paper and cleaning agent should also be in a strictly designated place for them.

And in one of the booths there are scales.

Shower room.

Memos with commands during drill are posted near the instructors' room.

Inside the barracks.

From the windows of the barracks, recruits can admire exactly the same barracks and the laundry building.

One of the elements of training.

This is what every day of a recruit in the Marine Corps looks like.