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Parris Island, SC -- U.S. Census Designated Place in South Carolina
Population (2000): 4841
Housing Units (2000): 358
Land area (2000): 12.163631 sq. miles (31.503659 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 7.438116 sq. miles (19.264631 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 19.601747 sq. miles (50.768290 sq. km)
FIPS code: 54850
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 32.328944 N, 80.694619 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
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Parris Island (disambiguation)

Parris Island commonly refers to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island, a United States Marine Corps training facility in South Carolina.

Parris Island may also refer to:

  • Parris Island, South Carolina
  • USS Parris Island (AG-72), a United States Navy patrol boat

Usage examples of "parris island".

My drill instructor taught me that when I went through boot camp at Parris Island.

He told her he'd learned how to do that in boot camp at Parris Island when he had first joined the Corps.

His keys and every other thing he had owned as a civilian had been put into a box and shipped home from Parris Island the very first morning he was there, right after they'd given him a haircut and a set of utilities and a pair of boots.

His keys and every other thing he had owned as a civilian had been put into a box and shipped home from Parris Island the very first morning he was there, right after theyd given him a haircut and a set of utilities and a pair of boots.

His keys and every other thing he had owned as a civilian had been put into a box and shipped home from Parris Island the very first morning he was there, right after they’.

They're shipping me to the motor transport company at Parris Island.

Stecker and the Doggie armorer had more in common with each other than Stecker had with the kids fresh from Parris Island involved in the troop test.

And they 're going to get killed because they don't teach at Parris Island or San Diego what a combat correspondent has to know to stay alive when you're in deep shit.

He remembered thinking about that when he packed: Antoinette's rolled socks would pass the inspection of even the most critical, nasty-tempered drill instructor at Parris Island.

After graduating from Parris Island, he had been a clerk in the Marine Corps.

Scotty's research was done at Beaufort, South Carolina, and nearby towns where recruits arrived by train and bus to be taken to the famous Parris Island base where raw civilians were turned into Marines.

On his first day at the Miami Sun, Keyes had been assigned the desk next to Skip Wileythe newsroom equivalent of Parris Island.

He wasn't too sure how he had come by the weapon exactly: Da Conho preferred to think it had been smuggled out of Parris Island piece by piece, which was how the Haganah would do it.