'Shoot for the stars': Desert Hot Springs High grads complete Marine Corps boot camp together

The former principal of Desert Ridge Academy recently took the helm at Horizon School and Amistad High School.
Stars and Stripes

This ‘boot camp’ gives kids a look at life as a Marine

This “boot camp” is designed to give school-age children a glimpse of life as an enlisted Marine while simultaneously emphasizing the importance of community. In another sense, the event also helped ...

Why ‘Boots’ ends its first season with some ‘harsh reality’

" [The season has been] this beautiful story of self-discovery and growth and bonding and brotherhood," Heizer tells Gold Derby. "All of a sudden this harsh reality hits. If there were a Season 2, ...

'First to fight': Marine VP JD Vance marks Corps’ 250th as Hegseth says unity, not ‘diversity,' is strength

Vice President JD Vance rang in the Marine Corps’ 250th at Camp Pendleton, praising fellow Marines after an assault demo and ...
USA Today

Netflix's 'Boots' is the hidden gem TV show of the year

He's got soul, and he's a soldier. In Netflix's "Boots," a sweet and funny new dramedy set at the U.S. Marine Corps boot camp in 1990, young gay man Cameron Cope (Miles Heizer, "Parenthood") is that ...