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Spend pick-up day, more notoriously known as "Black Friday", with these recruits and their drill instructors. This is the first afternoon where recruits spend quality with their drill instructors.

Marine Corps drill instructors with L Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion, Recruit Training Regiment, conduct gear inspections with recruits on pick-up day, aboard Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, Calif., March 18, 2016. The drill instructors were introduced to their recruits on pick-up day and immediately conducted gear inspections to ensure all recruits were prepared for training.

Video credit: Sgt. John Lamb