This “boot camp” is designed to give school-age children a glimpse of life as an enlisted Marine while simultaneously emphasizing the importance of community. In another sense, the event also helped ...

From buzz cuts and bed inspections to early wake-up calls and all-day training, boot camp is a crash course in discipline, grit, and growing up fast. Young recruits are tossed into a world of grueling ...

Los Angeles — Katt Williams, the Emmy-winning actor and renowned stand-up comedian, for years has claimed to have joined the U.S. Marine Corps as a teenager and successfully navigated the rigorous ...

When 50-year-old Paul Douglas showed up at Marine Corps boot camp in 1942, the white-haired economics professor looked more like a seasoned general than a private. Instead, he was just another recruit ...

We got an inside look at the United States Marine Corps' intense 13-week basic training program. Chief video correspondent Graham Flanagan spent five days at the Marine Corps Recruit Training Depot in ...

For newly minted Marine Pfc. Britney Moyeda, getting through boot camp was no sweat in comparison with what she had endured just to get there in the first place. The 18-year-old was diagnosed with ...

When Justin Kelley left the Air Force in 2015, he was an E-5 – a staff sergeant in the service’s rank structure. But when he graduated Marine Corps boot camp at Parris Island, South Carolina, on ...

Business Insider's chief video correspondent Graham Flanagan and senior videographer and editor Aj Caldwell take you behind the scenes of the latest "Boot Camp" story, the Marine Corps boot camp in ...

Three Class of 2025 graduates from Desert Hot Springs High School — who trained side by side in the same platoon during Marine Corps boot camp — returned to campus this week to be recognized and speak ...

A Marine recruit going through the Corps’ West Coast boot camp was recently caught at the airport after making a dash for freedom, a Marine Corps official confirmed. The recruit was apprehended on ...

A recruit going through boot camp suffered a gunshot wound to the leg during marksmanship instruction at the South Carolina base. By Matt White Published Aug 14, 2025 3:34 PM EDT A Marine recruit in ...