Women will attend boot camp at San Diego Marine Corps Recruit Depot for first time in history
December 15, 2020
A drill instructor with Oscar Company, 4th Recruit Training Battalion, Platoon 4042, instructs her platoon on Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, S.C., Sept. 6, 2019. (Lance Cpl. Shane T. Manson/Marine Corps)
For the first time in Marine Corps history, women will be trained at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego.
The Corps’ West Coast recruit depot traditionally has trained enlisted men born west of the Mississippi River, but all women who enlist in the Corps have been shipped to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina.