{"id":293393,"date":"2026-06-02T18:43:07","date_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:43:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293393\/"},"modified":"2026-06-02T18:43:07","modified_gmt":"2026-06-02T18:43:07","slug":"parris-island-drill-instructor-found-deceased-in-florida-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/293393\/","title":{"rendered":"Parris Island drill instructor found deceased in Florida hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A drill instructor assigned to Marine Corps Recruit Depot-Parris Island was found deceased in a hotel room in Starke, Florida, on May 30, the service confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sgt. Albert Haynes II, 24, was in Florida to attend a poolee function with U.S. Marine Corps Recruiting Station-Jacksonville at the time of the incident, a Marine Corps spokesperson told Military Times.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The incident is currently under investigation by the Bradford County Sheriff\u2019s Department.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Haynes, a native of Austin, Pennsylvania, was assigned to Lima Company, 3rd Recruit Training Battalion at the time of his death, according to his service record.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He enlisted in the Marine Corps as an 0811 Field Artillery Cannoneer, attending the Field Artillery Basic Course in Fort Sill, Oklahoma, after graduating recruit training and Marine Combat Training.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">His awards include the Navy and Marine Corps Achievement Medal (with a gold star in lieu of a second award), the Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal, the Global War on Terrorism Service Medal, the Sea Service Deployment Ribbon (with two bronze stars in lieu of a third award) and the National Defense Service Medal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A drill instructor assigned to Marine Corps Recruit Depot-Parris Island was found deceased in a hotel room in&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[123768,123766,123231,28,30,29,123765,87750,123767],"class_list":["post-293393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-albert-haynes","tag-bradford-county-sheriffs-department","tag-drill-instructor","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-marine-corps-recruit-depot-parris-island","tag-starke","tag-u-s-marine-corps-recruiting-station-jacksonville"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}