Month: July 2020

And so it started

June 1963: my whole life changed when I stepped on the yellow footprints at MCRD, San Diego. Thirteen and a half weeks in Platoon 340, L Co, 3rd Bn, 1st RTR changed me from a I-don’t-want-to-go-to-college-now kid but I want to leave home. Yes, it was tough, but that was what I signed up for. […]

MCRD

A fun way to spend a summer! This Receiving Barracks, Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, CA. You are picked up at the airport, train, bus station, or the main gate. A Drill Instructor gets on the bus yells that you have 30 seconds to get off the bus and on the yellow foot prints….and […]

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