FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, CA ~ 14 APR 2015

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[Kathy in Alaska]

 

 

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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!!

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CHARLESTOWN, Mass. (Jan. 14, 2008) The first major snowfall of the New Year blankets the USS Constitution. Despite the weather "Old Ironsides," remained open for free public tours. At 210 years-old, USS Constitution is the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world, manned by 67 active-duty United States Sailors and visited by nearly half a million visitors annually. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Eric Brown (Released)

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Boston, Oct. 21, 2009 - Boatswains Mate 2nd Class Philip Gagnon pipes as USS Constitution performs an underway demonstration in honor of the three-masted wooden frigate's 212th birthday. (U.S. Navy photo by Airman Mark Alexander/Released).
(Click for Bosun’s Whistle)



USS Constitution's 1812 Marine Guard fire vintage Springfield flintlock muskets during the ship's underway. "Old Ironsides" was underway for the "Constitution Day Cruise," which is conducted to thank the family and supporters of Constitution. U.S. Navy photo by Airman Nick Lyman (Released)

OUR TROOPS ROCK!!!!!!!

[PROCON]

Woo-Hoo!

[gwgn02]

Oorah!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Please note: The author of tonight’s Road Trip is laurenmarlowe.
She is at work.

Sending out prayers for Arrowhead1952 as he recovers from his horrible fall.

~ Road Trip: Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, CA ~

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[Kathy in Alaska]

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[PROCON]

Ah, those Marines and Navy guys had it easy in basic training.

1969 Basic training at Fort Lewis, Wa was pure Hell :-)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Hello Veterans, wherever you are!!

[MomofMarine]

My son became a United States Marine at MCRD San Diego in 1998. I was so proud...still am!

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!

((((HUGS))))

[ConorMacNessa]

Good Evening, Kathy!
***HUGS***



Thanks very much to you and Lauren for tonight’s Road Trip to MCRD San Diego, CA – where they make Marines!

Coming aboard as we speak. Rendering Hand Salutes to our National Colors and to the Officer of the Deck!

[Chainmail]

Platoon 148, 50 years ago this June.

Semper Fi.

[ansel12]

The last time I was there was with my son and step dad in the 1990s, he wanted to see it again.

[luvie]

Thanks, galz, for a great thread.

Making boys into men; men into MARINES!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Mac...*HUGS*...did you sally forth today? Nice spring weather?

Bright, sunny, windy today....chilly outside.

[doorgunner69]

Come August 25, I arrived there fifty years ago.

Talk about culture shock!

[SandRat]

[Kathy in Alaska]

Woo-hoo, Pro! Did you have a good day? ((HUGS))

A good weekend? Eye all done with appointments? Good to go?

[mylife]

Just across the street from my old command.

[SandRat]