To determine your recruit's graduation date, count 13 weeks from the time s/he left for bootcamp. You can almost always count on a graduation day falling on Friday; however, there are some holidays that will bump graduation up two days earlier, to Wednesday. These could include Thanksgiving, Christmas, Easter, and the Marine Corps Birthday. The Marine Corps is your best source for official graduation dates.

We keep the graduation dates up-to-date on the RecruitParents.com message board community. The message board community gives you an opportunity to post messages for other recruit families whose sons or daughters will be graduating on the same day.

To locate your Marine's graduation date forum on the message board community, select the link below for either MCRD PI (Marine Corps Recruit Depot at Parris Island, South Carolina) or MCRD SD (Marine Corps Recruit Depot at San Diego, California). The page you see will list about six months of graduation dates at any one time. Find your recruit's graduation date, click that date, and you'll be in the forum for his/her company and graduation date.

Moto Run, May 2007 Family Day, MCRD San Diego

If you need help finding the correct date, ask one of our trained, volunteer moderators who will be happy to help you find your way!

• MCRD PI
• MCRD SD

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