FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Marine Corps MWTC, California ~ 24 MAR 2009

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center, California

The Mountain Warfare Training Center (MWTC) is a United States Marine Corps installation located in Pickle Meadows near Bridgeport, California. The training center exists to train units in complex compartmented terrain. The center occupies 46,000 acres of Toiyabe National Forrest under management of the U.S. Forrest Service. A letter of agreement between the Forrest Service an the Marine Corps permits the use of the area to train Marines in mountain and cold weather operations.

The Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center (MCMWTC) is one of the Corps most remote and isolated post. The center was established in 1951 as a Cold Weather Battalion with a mission of providing cold weather training for replacement personnel bound for Korea.

After the Korea conflict the name was changed to the Marine Corps Cold Weather Training Center. As a result of it’s expanded role it was renamed the Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center in 1963. MCMWTC operated on a full time basis until 1967 when it was placed in a caretaker status as a result of the Vietnam War. The training center was reactivated to a full-time command on May 19th 1976.

The Marine Corps' Mountain Warfare Training Center, as a major subordinate element of Marine Air Ground Task Force Training Command, and with support from Marine Corps Installations - West, conducts unit and individual training courses to prepare USMC, Joint, and Allied Forces for operations in mountainous, high altitude, and cold weather environments in support of the Regional Combatant Commanders.

Additionally, MWTC provides support to Marine Corps Combat Development Command (MCCDC); Training and Education Command; Marine Corps Systems Command; and other USMC and Department of Defense (DOD) agencies engaged in the development of warfighting doctrine and specialized equipment for use in mountain and cold weather operations.

The center is cited at 6,762 feet, with elevations in the training areas ranging to just under 12,000 feet. During the winter season (October - April) snow accumulation can rear 6 to 8 feet. Further, sever storms can deposit as much as four feet in a 12 hour period. Annual temperatures range from -20 degrees to +90 degrees Fahrenheit.

Learn More About Marine Corps Mountain Warfare Training Center Here!

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[mylife]

Enjoy

[mylife]

*sigh*

[TASMANIANRED]

Rule One:

If you pull into my driveway and honk you’d better be delivering a package, becasue you’re sure not picking anything up.

Rule Two:

You do not touch my daughter in front of me. You may glance at her, so long as you do not peer at anything below her neck. If you cannot keep your eyes or hands off of my daughter’s body, I will remove them.

Rule Three:

I am aware that it is considered fashionable for boys of your age to wear their trousers so loosely that they appear to be falling off their hips. Please don’t take this as an insult, but you and all of your friends are complete idiots. Still, I want to be fair and open minded about this issue, so I propose this compromise: You may come to the door with your underwear showing and your pants ten sizes to big, and I will not object. However, in order to ensure that your clothes do no, infact come off during the course of you date with my daughter, I will take my electric nail gun and fasten your trousers securely in place to your waist.

Rule Four:
I’m sure you’ve been told that in today’s world, sex without utilizing a “Barrier method” of some kind can kill you. Let me elaborate, when it comes to sex, I am the barrrier, and I will kill you.

Rule Five:

It is usually understood that in order for us to get to know each other, we should talk aobut sports, politics, and other issues of the day. Please do not do this. The only information I require from you is an indication of when you expect to have my duaghter safely back at my house, and the only word I need from you on this subject is: “early”.

Rule Six:

I have no doubt you are a popular fellow, with many opportunities to date other girls. This is fine with me as long as it is okay with my daughter. Otherwise, once you have gone out with my little girl, you will continue to date no one but her until she is finished with you. If you make her cry, I will make you cry.

Rule Seven:

As you stand in my front hallway, waiting for my daughter to appear, and more than an hour goes by, do not sigh and fidget. If you want to be on time for the movie, you should not be dating. My daughter is putting on her makeup, a process than can take longer than painting the Golden Gate Bridge. Instead of just standing there, why don’t you do something useful, like changing the oil in my car?

Rule Eight:

The following places are not appropriate for a date with my daughter: Places where there are beds, sofas, or anything softer than a wooden stool. Places where there is darkness. Places where there is dancing, holding hands, or happiness. Places where the ambient temperature is warm enough to introduce my daughter to wear shorts, tank tops, midriff T-shirts, or anything other than overalls, a sweater, and a goose down parka - zipped up to her throat. Movies with a strong romantic or sexual theme are to be avoided; movies which features chan saws are okay. Hockey games are okay. Old folks homes are better.

Rule Nine:

Do not lie to me. I may appear to be a potbellied, balding, middle-aged, dimwitted has-been. But on issues relating to my daughter, I am the all-knowing, merciless god of your universe. If I ask you where you are going and with whom, you have one chance to tell me the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth. I have a shotgun, a shovel, and five acres behind the house. Do not trifle with me.

Rule Ten:

Be afraid,. Be very afraid. It takes very little for me to mistake the sound of your car in the driveway for a chopper coming in over a rice paddy near Hanoi. When my Agent Orange starts acting up, the voices in my head frequently tell me to clean the guns as I wait for you to bring my daughter home. As soon as you pull into the driveways you should exit the car with both hands in plain sight. Speak the perimeter password, announce in a clear voice that you have brought my daughter home safely and early, then return to your car - there is no need for you to come inside. The camoflaged face at the window is mine.

[mylife]

My day started of like a monday, still fighting an issue from last week...

But it is resolved. That feels good.

[luvie]

I’ll bet she had so many things to tell her Poppa and Nana!

She just gets cuter every day, doesn’t she!

[luvie]

Enjoy! It was hair-raising!

[sergeantdave]

Hello DocH:

We lived northwest of Bridgeport in the backcountry, about 30 miles south of Mt. Shasta. Interesting territory. Did a lot of climbing. Lots of wild dog packs in that backcountry.

The idiot cityfolk would drive out to the bush and drop off Fluffy and Fido, thinking the dogs would have no trouble surviving. After all, dog biscuits and Purina grow on trees in CA. Naturally, the dogs went feral and packed up, so I had to walk around with a revolver strapped to my hip and also carried a 12 gauge. Sure did scare the stupid lost hippies, though, when they stumbled across me.

Now I’m your neighbor here in South Carolina. Nice weather we’re enjoying.

Semper Fi

[TASMANIANRED]

Thanks...

[mylife]

Wise words. ☺

[TASMANIANRED]

Glad you resolved it.

Nothing like something hanging over your head.

[SandRat]

DC has a copy of these rules Clearly Posted in her Apt. lol

[SandRat]

This weekends “Date” involved going to the Luke Air Force Base Air Show during the day, Dinner, and to the Phoenix Coyote’s Hockey Game in the evening.

[luvie]

LOL! I think that will be my son in about 14 years when Piper
is a teen-aged girl!

Yikes!

[mylife]

I hate to start the week that way L0L

[DanGalt]

I spent 15 months at MCMWTC back in 1979.

It was a lot more rustic back in those day for billets than they have today, but it was so great being in the mountains in the winter and summer and Lake Tahoe was close by.

Semper Fi.

[mylife]

I am glad you enjoyed your tour. I love the mountains.

Winter and Summer.

Thanks for your service Dan

[TASMANIANRED]

I saw my Dad in them.

[PERKY2004]

Hey, shopping CAN be hard work, LOL .... all those stores .... all those choices .... all that time spent comparing prices, looking for sales clerks, etc. Anyway, we’re redoing the back patio ... fun, huh!

[mylife]

Funny how that works. ☺

[TASMANIANRED]

LOL.

I’m sure of it.