• Pursuing quality
• Being good stewards of resources and the environment
• Ensuring the professional development of our people
• Fostering positive community relations
• Promoting an atmosphere that relies on teamwork and integration
• Fostering an environment of decentralized decision making
• Achieving a balance between our mission and quality of life
• Being accountable for mission accomplishment, our people, and ourselves

Starting with our links to the local commuunities in the Eastern United States, the Marine recruiter seeks young men and women who meet established standards and have the ability to be transformed into enlisted Marines and Marine officers.

These same recruiters prepare the future Marines for recruit training and Officer Candidate School and maintain close ties with their families.

Once these future Marines arrive for training, the Marine Drill Instructor begins the important task of providing progressive and demanding training and instilling in them the core values of Honor, Courage, and Commitment.

This demanding training is not done in isolation, but is supported by the various units and sections of the suppporting establishments that work side-by-side with the trainers to mold future Marines, physically, mentally, and morally.

“Making Marines" involves many people and organizations. It creates a synergy of leadership, values, and commitment to the
Marine Corps, our duties, our families, and our fellow Marines, Sailors, and Civilian Marines past and present.

Our strategy embraces these ideas; our strategic goals and guiding principles keep us focused on the mission at hand-the making of a basic Marine-for service to the Nation and our Corps.