Videos

U.S. Marine Corps veterans Christian Nelson, Brad Fish, and Adelino "Al" Oliveira reflect on their visit to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, April 28, 2022. The three Marine veterans traveled to MCRD Parris Island to celebrate their 40-year anniversary of graduating Marine Corps recruit training on March 23, 1982; they enlisted out of Recruiting Station Pittsburg. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Jareka Curtis)

U.S. Marine Corps veterans John Laughner, Michael Giannattasio, Michael Guy, and Bob “Rocco” Ruggeirro reflect on their visit to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, April 1, 2022. The four Marine veterans traveled to MCRD Parris Island to celebrate their 50-year anniversary of graduating Marine Corps recruit training on April 2, 1972. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Jareka Curtis)

U.S. Marine Corps veteran Roy Brown Jr., the founder of Operation Patriots FOB, hosts OPFOB Sporting Clays Tournament open to military veterans and their families at the OPFOB head quarters in Ridgeland, South Carolina, March 25, 2022. OPFOB is an organization dedicated to helping veterans and their families navigate life outside the military. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Jareka Curtis)

U.S. Marine Corps veteran Roy Brown Jr., the founder of Operation Patriots FOB, hosts OPFOB Sporting Clays Tournament open to military veterans and their families at the OPFOB head quarters in Ridgeland, South Carolina, March 25, 2022. OPFOB is an organization dedicated to helping veterans and their families navigate life outside the military. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Jareka Curtis)

Thomas G. Taylor, a Marine Corps veteran who served in the Vietnam War, inspired his grandson, Benjamin E. Bowdoin, to enlist into the Marines in Oxford, Alabama, Oct. 2, 2020. Taylor began his Marine Corps career as an infantryman in 1965. The next year he was accepted into Force Reconnaissance and deployed to Vietnam. In 1975, after the war, he became one of the first service members to enter what was then the newly-created occupational field of military police. Taylor retired as a master sergeant in 1986. Bowdoin, now a senior at Pleasant Valley High School, enlisted through Recruiting Substation Anniston, Recruiting Station Montgomery. He is currently in the Delayed Entry Program, preparing to begin recruit training at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, South Carolina, where he will train for 13 weeks to earn the title of U.S. Marine. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Sgt. Jorge A. Rosales and Cpl. Terry Haynes)