U S M C
The United States Marine's Hymn
BOOT CAMP
SAN DIEGO MCRD
The San Diego Recruiting Depot is located
two miles north of San Diego. It is the
western recruiting region; recruit training
regiment; headquarters and service
battalion; headquarters, 12th MC District;
and the Coast Guard Pacific Area
Tactical Law Enforcement Team
The estimated population of the depot
and the grounds is 1,900 active duty;
and 269 civilians. Housing five
officer family units; 315
unaccompanied enlisted units.
Below, excerpts from article
written by John Fahey
The contact of United States Marines with San
Diego, California first occurred on
July 29, 1846 when men of the Marine Detachment
from the Sloop-of-War Cvane landed to raise
the first American flag on the Plaza of Old Town.
After that brief episode, Marines took part in
shore activities of the Navy, in the
San Diego area, both during and following
the Mexican War.
From that time until 1911, however, there is
no record of any Marines performing
duty ashore in San Diego.
In March 1911, the 4th Provisional Marine Regiment
landed at North Island in San Diego Bay,
under the command of Colonel Charles A. Doyen.
The Marines established a military camp and named it Camp Thomas in honor of Rear
Admiral Chauncey Thomas,
Commander in Chief of the Pacific Fleet.
With years of deliberations, and proposals
for the need for a Marine Base in California
it finally came into being.....
On 2 March 1919, the House of Representatives
Naval Affairs Committee visited the
Marine Camp in Balboa Park and the Advanced
Base Station on "Dutch Flats".
Groundbreaking ceremonies formally marked
the construction's beginning, with San
Diego's Chamber of Commerce President,
Melville Klauber, speeking of the past
and future work on the Marine Base soon
to have the name San Diego MCRD.
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here
MILITARY POLICE SCHOOL
The United States Marine Corps Administrative Detachment
Lackland Air Force Base, Texas was activated
in the summer of 1983.
The Mission was to provide administrative
support to Marine Corps Instructors and
students attending various schools aboard Lackland
and provide Military Police and Corrections training.
The Officer-in-Charge was also assigned
as the Marine Corps representative to San Antonio.
The Military Police training moved from Lackland
to Ft. McClellan AL in January of 1993,
with Corrections remaining in Lackland.
School is in Fort Leonard Wood, MO.
Mission of the Detachment is to provide support
for Marines, monitor instructions in which
Marines attend to ensure they receive appropriate
instruction of the occupational security and to
Marine Corps concepts, techniques and methods
of employment doctrines.
Also, to provide unique training for all Marines.
For further reading go
here
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STATIONED AT CAMP SMITH HAWAI'I
Camp Smith is located 3 miles north
of Honolulu. It is headquarters, Commander-in-Chief
Pacific; Commander, Marine Forces Pacific;
Special Operations Command Pacific.
Estimated population is 1,350
Marines on active duty.
It houses 12 officer family units;
and 144 unaccompanied enlisted units.
Below borrowed from Star Bulletin
date: May 11, 1998
Once covered by sugar cane, Camp Smith
was designated as Navy Hospital Aiea
Heights in 1941. Throughout World
War II the 1,650-bed Aiea Hospital served
thousands of wounded sailors and Marines.
It continued to expand, and in 1945,
following the bloody battle for Iwo Jima,
the hospital overflowed with 5,676
patients. It was the highest recorded
number of people receiving care
at any time in the hospital's history.
On June 1, 1949, the hospital
was deactivated when Army and Navy
medical facilities were consolidated at
what was later to become
Tripler Army Medical Center.
In 1955, when the Marines took over the
Aiea facility, it was renamed in honor of
the first commanding general of the
Fleet Marine Forces Pacific,
Gen. Holland "Howling Mad" Smith.
The Pacific Command moved its
operations from Makalapa outside of
Pearl Harbor to Camp Smith in 1957.
Members of the Marine Forces Pacific and
Fleet Marine Force, are comprised of
76,000 personnel; or nearly
half of the total personnel in the
Marine Corps.
Nearly 720 Marine Corps and civilian personnel
now work for Marine Forces Pacific in or
near Camp Smith.
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