Hey, all you Marines and brats of Marines

[Leghorn21]

I’m an old brat, and I consider “___ Saipan Street” to be the house I grew up in - 5 years there, an eternity for a Marine Corps family

wannhhh

[GreenPartyVoter]

1. My mom might have been a brat there. I know one of her dads bases was southern enough to

have ginormous scary palmetto bugs.

[Leghorn21]

3. Yep, that's the one, Green!!

I wonder if she and I played together in the marshes sob sniffle

[GreenPartyVoter]

5. Would've been late 40s, maybe 50. She was twoish.

[VMA131Marine]

2. I went through Parris Island in the summer of 83

Platoon 3058

I understand the tradition thing, but when tradition starts to hold you back, it’s time to do something else.

[Leghorn21]

4. No doubt, V - I was there as a kid 1959-'60, and it was kinda old back then...

but still...I haz a sad

[denbot]

6. Yeah, they closed the Navy's San Diego RTC (Worm Island) in '97.

My Grandfather went through there in 1942, on his way to the Pacific Theater. My dad’s next oldest brother went through there in the mid 50’s, and I went through there in the late 70’s.

We had a lot of laughs with our cadences as the Marines would run by on the opposite side of the chain link fence that separated the 2 boot camps.

[jmowreader]

7. They're also talking about closing MCRD San Diego

https://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/your-marine-corps/2020/09/25/no-more-yellow-footprints-on-parris-island-corps-considers-closing-south-carolina-and-san-diego-recruit-training-depots-to-open-third-training-base/

The issue: The 2020 National Defense Authorization Act (aka "the defense budget&quot requires all military training to be gender-integrated. That's a huge problem for the Marines because they still use open-bay barracks at their Recruit Depots. It will cost about as much to convert the current Recruit Depots to meet the new standard as it will to just open a new base.

They didn't ask me, but if they did I'd tell them to just build a new Recruit Depot on Camp Pendleton, Calif. There's plenty of room, and the base has recruits on it all the time already - the recruits at MCRD San Diego do all their tactical training at Pendleton because the FAA and the city are completely against recruits in training firing live ammunition next to the airport.