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A hand-crafted marquee is all that announces the Friday night fights in a crumbling old building at the corner of Compton and Atlantic Boulevards, in Compton, CA.

nine-year-old cadet Claudia Montanez passed muster during the young Marine's last session, and so wears now the official camouflage outfit and carries the flag before a phalanx of red-shirted recruits during a ceremony for Pearl Harbor survivors at…

First Sergeant John O'Sullivan exercises the option of drill instructors everywhere to badger and berate his young charges even when they're flat on their backs in a parking lot, struggling with calisthenics.

Young Marine Commander Marco Adame checks his wristwatch again and curses his luck, while flag-bearing cadets wait with him for a long-overdue parade to begin.

A recruit pressed into service as a latrine monitor glumly awaits his turn in the clammy old restroom.

Drill instructor Michael Rada looms over the red-clad recruits as they finish their lunch near the old gun emplacements at Fort McArthur, in San Pedro.

Still clutching the Young Marines flagpole, 12-yea-old Michael Lee Carson and his fellow cades wolf down McDonald's hamburgers during a quick lunch-break from their Saturday afternoon drilling.

In an empty barracks, recruit Chris Nava struggles into his newly issued camouflage pants.

Young Marine cadets march ceaselessly around and across For McArthur's wide parking lot, even when extra-thick early morning fog makes their destination nearly invisible.

Sitting with coffee in the warmth of her car, Sylvia Juarez watches her son Jimmy and his fellow Young Marine recruits drill in the early morning fog in a parking lot overlooking the Pacific Ocean.