You might be right about that. His head ain’t shaven yet. So maybe they’re “counseling” him about wearing the tee shirt with the USMC logo....
The Marine Corps holds events where recruits waiting to go to boot camp and other interested prospects can get a small taste of what life will be like when they step on the yellow footprints at either MCRD San Diego or Parris Island.
It can be intense, but it in no way will prepare them for the hell that will be unleashed on them the second they step off the bus for real.
The night I stepped on those yellow footprints on Sept 26 1984 is burned into my soul!
I saw this photo somewhere else on the internet and I believe this is a Poolee at a Recruiting Station event. The DIs are there to give them an idea of boot camp. Hence the reason that the female DI is there. It is not a boot camp photo.