By: Jim Barber After 13 weeks of boot camp, during which about half of allCommunication coming down from your DIs is expletives, the mostcommon verb, pronoun and adjective in your vocabulary becomes thecrude, four letter word most commonly used to...
By: Joel Araguz I will never forget the first words I heard when I first arrived at MCRD. We arrived from the airport about 10:00 p.m. (military time was not the standard for a few more minutes). It was dark,...
By: Johnny L. Allred The first day, It was November 18 1982 M C R D San Diego, Platoon 1114 Delta Company. I remember it very well. One minute the drill Sargent was a nice fellow the next he was...
“Get off my bus!”The first moments of recruit training are fast and intense, but you will remember them forever. Share your stories with us!
By: Macklin, James H Back in 1973 I was just 17 years old and talked my mother into letting me sign up. Bus ride to St. Louis, 707 to San Diego. Truck ride to MCRD. Yellow foot prints.The Corps gave...
Sgt. Grit: To the best of my recollection, here is the 12 days of boot camp ditty. I’m sure there were many variations of this: On the 1st day of boot camp, the Marine Corps gave to me, a haircut...
BOY! Do these photos bring back MEMORIES! Too bad the few remaining huts have fallen into such disrepair. I went to the USMC Scout Sniper Association reunion a few years ago in San Diego and we as a group attended...
A Marine Corporal Remembers Camp Wilson Submitted Aug. 10, 2019 By Cpl. Mike Kunkel, USMC Veteran Grunt.com About the Photograph: Cpl. Mike Kunkel describes being pictured with "a buddy named Max Lesko outside the old tin and wooden huts at...
MARINE CORPS BOOT CAMP: 1968 By D.T. Nyerges "Get off my bus, you slimy-eyed maggots," the drill instructor shouted at the top of his lungs. Thus began my "near death experience" through nine weeks of Marine Corps recruit training that...
