FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Parris Island, SC ~ July 31, 2012

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[SkyDancer]

~ Hi All And Greetings ~

~ Our Ladies Rock ~

[luvie]

Thanks, Galz, for a great Road Trip! Wish I could really go to all those neat places we “travel” to here on the Canteen! :)

[fatrat]

beautiful beaufort by the sea 26 miles from yemassee.

I retired from Naval Hospital Beaufort (just around the corner from PI) in 1982.

SEMPER FI

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Families, for your service to our country.

Thanks, unique, for the perfect woohoo.

John Conlee ~ They Also Serve

[Kathy in Alaska]

And rounding out the top "three"....Hawaii bags the bronze!!

[Semper Mark]

I had quite a bit of “counseling” while I was there. :)

UR RAH!

[Iron Munro]

USMC Receiving Barracks, Yemassee, SC

In 1915, the Marine Corps developed a recruit-receiving station in Yemassee, in coordination with the Atlantic Coast Line Railroad. A receiving facility was leased for incoming recruits to stay the night before being shipped to Parris Island. When the Receiving Station was closed in 1965, more than half a million recruits had passed through the railroad junction on their way to Parris Island.

Back in the day recruits travelled by train to Yemassee on their way to boot camp at Parris Island?

I went through there in 1960.

How many other Freepers went through Yemassee and the USMC Receivng Station on their way to P.I.??

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, Nana Hope, for today's Pledge…((HUGS)) Thanks, AfghanMan and Penguin Girl, for your service to America.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, fatrat. Thanks for sharing your history.

And we thank you for your service to our country.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Welcome to the Canteen, oldsaw....we thank you for your service to our country.

[Wings-n-Wind]

Being an OCS @ Quantico graduate many years earlier....

Watching my oldest son graduate from Parris Island in '96....
Was quite the family event....
OOOh-RAH!

Semper Fi...

[fatrat]

Thanks Kathy. I seriously considered making Beaufort my retirement home but the Sand Fleas drove me away. I felt so sorry for the recruits there having to endure those sand fleas but i guess that helped to toughen them.

[ottbmare]

Thanks for posting that. That’s where my kid is going!

[Kathy in Alaska]

YIKES! I have limited experience with sand fleas, but they are high on my list to avoid.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, Sand...((HUGS))...any cleaning to do before the girls come home?

[Phosgood]

I can still hear the brakes being applied to the wheels of that ACL passenger car as it was approaching Yamassee station. It was 3 AM and dark outside. It was going to get a lot darker soon!
(20 July, 1956)

[Kathy in Alaska]

Aloha, Hawaii...((HUGS))...rain most of today, and threatening now.

Sun for you? Any good news?

[Forty-Niner]

“Few of our “leaders” today would be fit to polish his boots.”

When I was in the Marines there were many senior NCO’s just like your father still in, or getting ready to retire. From personal observation I’d say your comment is 100% spot on.

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening/morning, Mayor...thank you for today’s sustenance for body and soul. ((HUGS))

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good morning, ML...((HUGS))...busy day, but went well. Hope your Monday went well, too.

Happy Tuesday!!