Parris Island

This summer - nearly eight years after the defense secretary at the time, Ash Carter, ordered all combat jobs open to women - the Marine Corps formally deactivated the 4th Marine Recruit Training Battalion at Parris Island.

And when she got to Parris Island, “the first class I got was how to do my hair. We’re training to be the most lethal force and the first thing you learn is how to do my hair.”

This summer — nearly eight years after the defense secretary at the time, Ash Carter, ordered all combat jobs open to women — the Marine Corps formally deactivated the 4th Marine Recruit Training Battalion at Parris Island.

“We have established a tried-and-true manner by which we train Marines that proves effective in transforming young Americans,” he said in a recent interview at Parris Island.

After high school, he went to Parris Island, where — because he was an Eagle Scout — he started at the rank of private first class.