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I remember twenty years ago lying in my rack (bunk) and watching the planes take off at night- and wishing that I was on one of them. :-)

To this day, whenever I simultaneously smell newly-mown grass and hear an airliner, it takes me back there.

What a shame. I hope that they don't move out.

g'nad, Some 33 years ago I too was going through boot camp at that location. Listening to and watching those planes land and take off and of course wishing I was on one of them. I also remember a little ditty when I was in the Corps that said "195 years of tradition unhampered by not one ounce of progress". As sad as it would be to lose the birthplace of so many hollywood Marines. Its high time they get more modern and better facilities. We have always gotten the hand me downs from the army then showed them how to use it properly. Lets build our own according to our needs. Marines are built not only in MCRD San Diego or Lejune but at the hundreds of duty stations we have been sent to. Iwo Jima, The Camp Carrol, Lebanon or the Persion Gulf. New traditions are started all the time that link us with the past glorys of the Corps. I say, give the Marines a new and better facility away from the dangers of that airport. If we are / were the first to fight lets us be prepared properly for it.

2087 bump I graduated on Dec. 23 1981 and it would be a damn shame to see this institution replaced by a frigging generic industrial park. I have to admit the airfield is a bit short since some planes have to get up some speed then make a hard left without losing too much speed when going from the taxi way to the main runway just to make the takeoff.