The U.S. Marine Corps in Crisis: Ribbon Creek and Recruit Training by Keith Fleming

The U.S. Marine Corps in Crisis: Ribbon Creek and Recruit Training

Keith Fleming

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In 1956 a Marine drill instructor led his recruit platoon on a punitive night march across Ribbon Creek, a tidal stream at the Parris Island, South Carolina, recruit depot. Six men drowned, and the resulting court-martial became a national media s...

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