Videos

Educators and influencers participate in a series of events during Educator's Workshop at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, April 29 – May 2, 2025. Educators Workshop provides an opportunity for high school teachers and school administrators to experience and gain insight into some of the challenges recruits face during Marine Corps recruit training. Attendees of the workshop can inform their students about the benefits and opportunities the Marine Corps can provide. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Nicholas Johnson)

Educators and Influencers participate in events during Educator's Workshop at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, March 11-14, 2025. Educators Workshop provides an opportunity to high school teachers and school administrators to experience and gain insight into some of the challenges recruits face during Marine Corps recruit training. Attendants of the workshop are informed of the benefits and opportunities the Marine Corps can provide to their students. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Skyler Harris)

U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting Station Lansing, 4th Marine Corps District, conducts a poolee function at Gaylord, Michigan, Nov. 16, 2024. Drill instructors from Parris Island, South Carolina, volunteered their time to help poolees mentally and physically prepare for the rigors of recruit training. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Israel Sheber)

U.S. Marine Corps Maj. Dominique Thomas, a Moss Point, Mississippi native and the Recruiting Station (RS) Lansing commanding officer, and Sgt. Hassanen Attabi, a Baghdad, Iraq native and the RS Lansing marketing and communications Marine, take to the streets for interviews during the NFL Draft at Detroit, Michigan, April 26, 2024. The purpose of the interviews was to foster relationships and establish a Marine Corps connection with the local community. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Bernadette Pacheco)

Educators from the Nashville, Tennessee and Raleigh, North Carolina areas experience Educators Workshop (EWS) at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, South Carolina, Feb. 28, 2024 to March 1, 2024. EWS is a program that invites select educators and community influencers onto the depot a to provide insight on how the Marine Corps transforms young men and women into United States Marines. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Bernadette Pacheco)

U.S. Marine Corps Pvt. Elijah Jefferson and Pvt. Jacquari Cotton, recruiting assistants under the command recruiting program with Recruiting Substation Cary, speak about their journey through the Marine Corps recruiting process in Raleigh, North Carolina, Oct. 12, 2023. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Brandon Salas)

U.S. Marine with Recruiting Station Lansing and it's parent command, 4th Marine Corps District, Eastern Recruiting Region, demonstrate and teach wrestling techniques to high school athletes as part of the USMC Sports Leadership Academy at Fraser High School, Fraser, Michigan, October 28, 2023. The clinic provided the athletes an opportunity to hone their wrestling skills and develop their personal leadership styles through the lessons taught by the Marines. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Hassanen Attabi)

U.S. Marine Corps Pfc. Samuel Hurwitz, a Marine recruited out of Recruiting Substation Elizabethtown, Recruiting Station Louisville, recounts the impact his high school wrestling coach, Spencer Adams, had on him and his journey to join the Marine Corps. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Bernadette Pacheco)

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Brandon Tyler Hatmaker, a musician with the Marine Forces Reserve Band, Marine Forces Reserve, tours his hometown of Cleveland, Tennessee, as part of the band's 2023 fall tour to build community relations. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Bernadette Pacheco)

The U.S. Marine Corps Silent Drill Platoon, Drum and Bugle Corps, and color guard perform during the NightBEAT event at Wake Forest University in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, July 30, 2023. The annual event features the top performing ensembles in the marching arts. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Bernadette Pacheco)

U.S. Marines interact with wrestlers during the Kentucky Beach Wrestling State Open tournament at Louisville, Kentucky, July 1, 2023. The event provided the Marines the opportunity to connect with the local community and raise Marine Corps awareness. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Bernadette Pacheco)

U.S. Marine Corps recruiters from Recruiting Station Fredrick engage and interact with the convention goers during Awesome Con at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington D.C., June 15-17, 2023. The three-day event is catered to comic book fans, movie fans, artists, and video gamers to meet and greet with comic industry professionals and celebrities. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Bernadette Pacheco)

U.S. Marines with Recruiting Station Cleveland, 4th Marine Corps District, discuss what being a father means to them at Recruiting Station Cleveland, Middleburg Heights, Ohio, June 9, 2023. Father's Day was noticed as an official national holiday by President Richard Nixon in 1972. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Austin Molla)

Poolees in the Delayed Entry Program at Recruiting Substation (RSS) Frederick, prepare for the physical and mental rigors of Marine Corps recruit training during a physical training session at RSS Frederick, Frederick, Maryland, June 8, 2023. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Cpl. Bernadette Pacheco)