While the canon doesn’t address Parris Island in V1, the V2.2 canon does.
The East Africa Kenya Sourcebook has the 30th Marine Regiment sent to Kenya to provide the American forces there with amphibious warfare and ship board security troops, including boarding parties to be used to suppress the pirate activity off the Eastern coast of Africa.
The 30th Marines was cobbled together in 1998 from troops withdrawn from Guantanamo and the last class of Marines being trained at Parris Island and Camp Lejeune, along with their drill instructors, and then shipped to Kenya, where it was joined by a detachment from FAST Company, Atlantic and several USMC security detachments that had arrived in Kenya when the US had evacuated many of their embassies in Africa. It was equipped with whatever vehicles and armor was available, most of which were training vehicles stationed at the two bases, many of which have had considerable use already.
The Marine drill instructors from Parris Island and Camp Lejeune, upon arrival in Kenya, were used to set up a recruit depot and training facility at Mombasa which has trained over 400 new Marines since it was set up to reinforce the 30th, with the recruits being drawn from the expat and refugee community in Kenya. The Regiment, as a result of that, includes Americans, British, Canadians, Australians and Belgians and has been nicknamed “the American Foreign Legion. They are currently training a large group of excess USN and USAF personnel from CENTCOM who have volunteered to join the Marines and who, once they complete their training, will be used to rebuild the strength of the 1st and 3rd Marine Divisions in Iran.
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