Rct. Brock Willingham, Platoon 1024, Delta Company, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, responds to his drill instructor as he changes positions on a Confidence Course obstacle Feb. 25, 2014, on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C. For this obstacle, recruits had to change positions twice as they slid across a horizontal rope that hovered over a shallow pond. Willingham, a 22-year-old from Augusta, Ga., is scheduled to graduate May 2, 2014. Parris Island has been the site of Marine Corps recruit training since Nov. 1, 1915. Today, approximately 20,000 recruits come to Parris Island annually for the chance to become United States Marines by enduring 13 weeks of rigorous, transformative training. (U.S. Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Octavia Davis/Released)
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