FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

~The FReeper Canteen Presents~

Road Trip: Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California

Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego is a United States Marine Corps military installation in San Diego, California. It lies between San Diego Bay and Interstate 5, adjacent to Lindbergh Field and the former Naval Training Center San Diego.

MCRD San Diego's main mission is the initial training of enlisted male recruits living west of the Mississippi River. Over 21,000 recruits are trained each year. The Depot also is the home to the Marine Corps' Recruiter School and Western Recruiting Region's Drill Instructors School.

 

Recruit training for those enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, also referred to as boot camp, includes a thirteen week process during which the recruit becomes cut off from the civilian world and must adapt to a Marine Corps lifestyle.

During training, the drill instructors train recruits in a wide variety of subjects including weapons training, Marine Corps Martial Arts Program, personal hygiene and cleanliness, close order drill, and Marine Corps history. The training emphasizes physical fitness and recruits must attain a minimum standard of fitness to graduate.

 This standard includes a Physical Fitness Test. Recruits must also meet minimum combat-oriented swimming qualifications, qualify in rifle marksmanship with the M16A2 service rifle.

Unlike training at Parris Island, recruits must leave the depot to conduct field training. The second three-week phase is spent at Edson Range aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, where recruits fire on the rifle range. At the conclusion, recruits return to San Diego, but will return at the end of recruit training for the 56-hour "culminating" event called The Crucible.

Learn More About Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego HERE!!

The Marine Corps Recruit Depot Command Museum boasts one of the most extensive and comprehensive displays of Marine Corps historical items in the Nation. The Museum has over 150,000 annual visitors and occupies 22,233 square feet of indoor space.

The Mission at the MCRD Command Museum is “To provide an educational setting that portrays the legacy of the Marine Corps for the training of recruits and the continuing education of Marines, that functions as a supporting arm to the recruiting effort, and that serves as a bridge to the civilian community.”

Visit The MCRD Command Museum HERE!!

FR CANTEEN MISSION STATEMENT~Showing support and boosting the morale of our military and our allies military and the family members of the above. Honoring those who have served before. 

Please remember: The Canteen is a place to honor and entertain our troops. The Canteen is family friendly. Let's have fun!

We pray for your continued strength, to be strong in the face of adversity.

We pray for your safety, that you will return to your families and friends soon.

We pray that your hope, courage, and dignity remain unbroken, so that you may show others the way.

God Bless You All ~ Today, Tomorrow and Always

 

 

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I’m cool...I have to get my normal gait back.

[Kathy in Alaska]

I am off for home!

[mylife]

God I love dirt biking, motorcycling.
Off Road.

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My all time favorite!

4 (Count ‘em!) diminished chords in the very first line!

[mylife]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bf87ER3VQV0&feature=kp

[Hoodat]

I stand with our military tonight with a broken heart. The pain I feel right now cannot compare to the pain felt by our honorable servicemen and women. Yet the betrayal that has occurred from our Secretary of Defense, National Security Advisor, and Commander-in-Chief has broken me. God bless you all, and may He restore Ziklag as He did for David.

So David recovered all that the Amalekites had carried away, and David rescued his two wives. And nothing of theirs was lacking, either small or great, sons or daughters, spoil or anything which they had taken from them; David recovered all.

1 Samuel 30:18-19

[mylife]

1952 Vincent Black Lightning.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5yw2yKNLEPc

[Hoodat]

Born to be Wild - Steppenwolf

[luvie]

It sure is! Scared and excited all at the same time! :)

[M1911A1]

Yup, that’s where I was born again, USMC fashion, a decade after you.

May the stupid yellow footprints never fade!

[hoagy62]

I have a friend who is a bird-colonel chaplain. He likes Marines, but think they’re “a bit off”. He was telling a story of a friend of his who had a son who’d just graduated from Marine boot camp. He was visiting home on leave and was invited to attend a ‘thanks to the troops’ event on post by my friend. In the ceremony, each service’s song was played. When the Marine Corps Hymn began, this kid shot to rigid attention and stayed that way.

My chaplain friend’s wife commented “Gee...you could snap him in half. Will he ever relax?” My friend said, “Yes...when he’s dead. They’re trained that way.”

Yes...he does have great respect for them.

[Publius]

George could do it all. Songs, concertos, opera, you name it.

[mylife]

Oh God there is some hilarious Scottish commercial that uses the song “Born to Be Wild” Cant think of the name of the company, minds gone blank.

Great song

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I love his stuff.

His “Movie music” was great too.

[Publius]

When Pando Berman, producer of the Astaire-Rogers musicals at RKO, asked George and Ira to do the songs for the next musical, he told George not to worry about the incidental music. That would be handed off to one of the house composers.

George said, "But I want to worry about the incidental music. If my name is on the credits, I want to be sure that every note is mine. Hell, I'll write the incidental music for free!"

That last sentence was music to Berman's ears. As a result, every note in this film came form George's pen, to include this instrumental classic that was used as a long intro to a song.

Walking the Dog

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I understand completely the desire to have control over every note of one’s own compositions!

[Publius]

George’s standards were incredibly high.

[mylife]

Ahch! Here it Tis! Halford's!!Git yer Mooter Ruunnin....

[mylife]

Better copy of the commercial.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_L2civqBS0

[mylife]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLwEIp2kvQU