Delta Company drill instructors at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego earned Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medals for an impressive training cycle. They guided 81 recruits to graduation, plus 13 ...

Three illegal aliens were arrested in the South Bay area of San Diego, California, after federal and local authorities found a total of 61 bundles of meth inside three vans they were driving.

New U.S. Marines with India Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, completed the 13-week training course at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego.

MCRD Command Museum Marketing Director Ashley Petters is shown at the museum on January 29, 2025. “It's kind of tucked away at MCRD San Diego," Petters said.

The service allowed women to train at San Diego for the first time in early 2021. It marked another first at the same time by putting a platoon of female recruits inside a male training company.

Billy Hall graduated 83 years ago from boot camp. He returned to the very place where his military career started at MCRD San Diego before he saw combat action in World War II, Korea and Vietnam.

While MCRD San Diego is near the city’s airport and other military bases, Parris Island is isolated in the swampy South Carolina “low country” — a remoteness that puts many recruits off ...

SAN DIEGO — When Marine Brig. Gen. Joseph Pendleton raised the first American flag 100 years ago at what would eventually become the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, the city was still a ...

According to the MCRD San Diego, at 11:50 a.m., a vehicle attempted to board Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego at the Gate 5 checkpoint.

Today, MCRD San Diego, as it’s known in military shorthand, serves as the Corps’ West Coast boot camp, training recruits from west of the Mississippi. It’s also the service’s Western ...

MCRD San Diego -- When Marine leaders defend the Corps' historic resistance to further gender integration of recruit training, they often bring up infrastructure as a major challenge. The two ...