Forming Day 1. After spending 3 days of processing, recruits were passed from the Receiving Company to their Training Company and Training Platoons. After 2 days of "forming" (daily routines, policies & procedures), formal training began. The first event for the Training Company when receiving the new recruits was the "Pick-up Brief". Here the Company Commander passed the recruits to the Series Commander who in turn passed them to the Senior Drill Instructor who then unleashed his Drill Instructor team on them...yes, that's when all hell broke loose!!!
"Company Commander's Pick-up Brief." Capt Kevin P. McClernon, USMC, Company D, 1st Recruit Training Battalion, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, 1990.
