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Derek,
During the off season, the uniform-fashion-thread members (and you know who they are) wood love an interior design bored.
"Redecorate after da bitch gets out da house..."
During the off season, the uniform-fashion-thread members (and you know who they are) wood love an interior design bored.
"Redecorate after da bitch gets out da house..."
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Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof.
Source?
AZFuck, a duck, weekend warrior, who gets 2 weeks off this summer from his very important job as a Manager of a Circle K in Arizona, wants to see my DD-214. Which one ? I have two, and two Honorable Discharge Certificates. Do you know why smartass ? It took the VA over a year to agree with me on that point, even after I showed them to them.
61 USMC battlefield commissions ? I thought there were far less. And here I thought I was special...
A lot of us know each other because we overlapped at Quantico. Do you know why ?
Crickets... Grundleshitz, I have another friend, CWO-3, who was one of the first Army Cobra test pilots at Rucker, Alabama. The poor guy can barely walk now he was shot in the ass so many times. I agree, gunships are cool.
So you're lying. Got it.
I am down with Christina. And Joanna from Fixer Upper - would like to punish her while Chip watches.
Marine Corps Base Quantico
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This article is about the United States Marine Corps installation. For the town of the same name, see Quantico, Virginia.
Marine Corps Base Quantico
Quantico, Prince William County, Virginia, U.S.
Seal of Marine Corps Base Quantico.png
Seal of Marine Corps Base Quantico
Type Military training installation
Site information
Controlled by United States Marine Corps
Site history
Built 1917
In use United States Marine Corps Officer Candidates School
United States Marine Corps The Basic School
United States Marine Corps U.S. Marine Corps University
FBI Academy
DEA training academy
Garrison information
Current
commander Colonel David W. Maxwell, USMC
Past
commanders John A. Lejeune
Quantico Marine Corps Base Historic District
U.S. National Register of Historic Places
U.S. Historic district
Virginia Landmarks Register
Located in northeastern Virginia Located in northeastern Virginia
Coordinates 38°33′4″N 77°25′50″WCoordinates: 38°33′4″N 77°25′50″W
Area 55,148 acres (86.169 sq mi)[1]
Governing body United States Marine Corps
NRHP Reference # 01000260[2]
VLR # 287-0010
Significant dates
Added to NRHP March 26, 2001
Area
• Total 8.2 sq mi (21.1 km2)
• Land 7.2 sq mi (18.5 km2)
• Water 1.0 sq mi (2.6 km2)
Population (2010, km2 density from 2000)
• Total 4,452
• Density 548.12/sq mi (354.8/km2)
Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
FIPS code 51-65136[4]
Marine Corps Base Quantico, also known as MCB Quantico, is a United States Marine Corps installation located near Triangle, Virginia, covering nearly 55,148 acres (86.169 sq mi) of southern Prince William County, Virginia, northern Stafford County, and southeastern Fauquier County. Used primarily for training purposes, MCB Quantico is known as the "Crossroads of the Marine Corps".[1][5]
Quantico Station is a census-designated place (CDP) in Prince William County and Stafford counties in the U.S. state of Virginia. The population was 4,452 at the 2010 census. The designation Quantico Station is not in widespread local use, but is simply a name used by the Census Bureau to describe base housing on Marine Corps Base Quantico.
The U.S. Marine Corps' Combat Development Command, which develops strategies for U.S. Marine combat and makes up most of the community of over 12,000 military and civilian personnel (including families) is based here. It has a budget of around $300 million and is the home of the Marine Corps Officer Candidates School. The Marine Corps Research Center at Quantico pursues equipment research and development, especially telecommunications, for the Marine Corps. The Marine Corps Brig, a military prison, is also located at Quantico.
The FBI Academy, the principal research and training facility of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the principal training facility for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are also located on the base.
In 2001, the base was designated as part of the Quantico Marine Corps Base Historic District by the National Register of Historic Places.[2][6][7] This district includes 122 buildings, two landscapes, a sculpture, and a water tower located within the Mainside area of the base.[8] The contributing properties with separate entries include Tennessee Camp, Camp French, Commanding General's Quarters, and Rising Hill Camp.
Quantico Station is located at 38°30′07″N 77°18′21″W (38.501951, -77.305962).[9] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 8.1 square miles (21.1 km2), of which, 7.2 square miles (18.5 km2) of it is land and 1.0 square miles (2.6 km2) of it (12.27%) is water.
The name "Quantico Station" is most often used to designate the metro station in Quantico, Virginia where commuters use the Virginia Railway Express.[10]
Climate[edit]
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Demographics[edit]
As of the census[4] of 2000, there were 6,571 people, 1,389 households, and 1,351 families residing in the CDP.
There were 1,389 households out of which 77.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 91.3% were married couples living together, 4.3% had a female householder with no husband present, and 2.7% were non-families. 2.1% of all households were made up of individuals and none had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 3.57 and the average family size was 3.57.
In the CDP the population was spread out with 32.3% under the age of 18, 29.9% from 18 to 24, 35.5% from 25 to 44, 2.2% from 45 to 64, and 0.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 22 years. For every 100 females there were 158.6 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 196.1 males.
The median income for a household in the CDP was $41,429, and the median income for a family was $41,288. Males had a median income of $24,478 versus $20,676 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $14,563. About 5.5% of families and 5.7% of the population were below the poverty line, including 7.1% of those under age 18 and none of those age 65 or over.
History[edit]
Before the establishment of the Marine base[edit]
The first military presence at Quantico came during the American Revolutionary War, when the Quantico Creek village became a main naval base for the Commonwealth of Virginia's 72-vessel fleet on which many state militia served.[citation needed]
The land was first visited by the Marine Corps in 1816, when a group of Marines traveling by ship to Washington were stopped when their vessel was halted by ice in the Potomac, forcing them to debark and march to the town of Dumfries, Virginia. Here they met a young Captain Archibald Henderson who lived close by. A generous-natured man, Henderson hired a wagon for them and sent them on their way.[citation needed]
During the American Civil War, control of the Potomac River became very important to both sides of the two armies. The Confederates picked the Quantico Creek area on the Potomac to set up their gun batteries. This enabled them to make full use of several points where their artillery could reach anything on the water, thus deterring Union use of the water highway. One of these sites included "Shipping Point," the present day site of the Marine Corps Systems Command.[citation needed] Another site is Tennessee Camp, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2008.[2]
While battles took place in Manassas, Virginia and Fredericksburg, Virginia, the gun positions around Quantico were used until the end of the war. After a 12-day battle at the Spotsylvania Courthouse where the Union lost about 25,000 soldiers, the war moved out of the Quantico area.[citation needed]
Following the war, railroads became a more integral part of transportation. In 1872, the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad was formed when several railroads north and south met at Quantico Creek. This railroad still runs through the Base and is used daily.[citation needed]
The village came to be called "Quantico" and was built by the Quantico Company. This was the start of a thriving tourist and fishing town that would later be encompassed by Marine Corps Base Quantico.[citation needed]
Establishing the base[edit]
The former logo of MCB Quantico.
Prior to the base's establishment, the land was owned by the Town of Quantico. Around the start of the 20th century, the Quantico Company was formed on Quantico Creek. By the beginning of the twentieth century, Quantico was being advertised as a recreational day trip. The Quantico Company promoted the town as a tourist and excursion center, and brought in tourists from Washington and Richmond by the steamer St. Johns and trains using the RF&P railroad lines and depot developed at Quantico in 1872. A beach was developed with dressing rooms and refreshment stands. In one week in 1916, Quantico was visited by 2,600 visitors who came by steamer or train.[12]
By 1916, the Quantico Company began advertising Quantico as "The New Industrial City," and pushed for industry to come to the area. At the same time, the Quantico Shipyards were established on Hospital Point (the land that formerly held the Naval Medical Clinic but is now home to Marine Corps Systems Command) to build ocean freighters and oil tankers. With growing tensions of war in Europe, the construction of U.S. Navy ships was a major money-maker for the Quantico Shipyards. While the Town of Quantico was rapidly growing as a fishing village, excursion center and a shipbuilding center in early 1917, the town was not large or significant, and was suffering many financial difficulties.[12]
Around the same time, Major General George Barnett, then Commandant of the Marine Corps, sent a board to find possible sites for a new Marine Corps base in the Washington, D.C., vicinity.[13]
In 1917, Marine Barracks, Quantico was established on the land currently occupied by today's base. Marine Barracks personnel consisted of 91 enlisted men and four officers. Thousands of Marines were trained here during World War I. The Commanding General's Quarters was built in 1920 and added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.[2] By 1920, the Marine Corps schools were founded, as Colonel Smedley Butler put it, "to make this post and the whole Marine Corps a great university."[14]
These schools eventually developed into today's Marine Corps University. Virtually all Marine officers receive their basic training here, as well as enlisted technicians from many different disciplines.[15]
The first Marine Aircraft Wing was developed at Quantico, as well as the Corps' first helicopter squadron, Marine Helicopter Squadron One (HMX-1), the first helicopter squadron to provide rapid transportation for Presidents of the United States ("Marine One").[14] It continues that mission today.
In 1934, Amphibious Warfare Doctrine, along with special amphibious landing crafts for World War II were developed here.[13] These Amphibious Warfare techniques, developed in the years before World War II, made victory possible in the Pacific theater. Quantico trained over 15,000 USMC and other service officers in these techniques.[14]
In 1942, over 50,000 acres were purchased by the federal government and added to Quantico, making up what is now the base west of Interstate 95. The expansion was needed for additional range and maneuver training areas during World War II.[13]
In 1987, the Marine Corps Development and Education Command here was changed to the Marine Corps Combat Development Command.[14]
Soldier Bradley E. Manning, accused of disclosing classified information was detained in the Quantico brig in 2010-2011. Demonstrators blocked a gate on Sunday, March 20, 2011. Thirty were arrested.[16]
On the night of March 21, 2013, a Marine opened fire killing two other Marines before killing himself.[17]
Units and commands[edit]
The Corps' Combat Development Command, which develops strategies for Marine combat and makes up most of the community of over 12,000 military and civilian personnel (including families) is based here. It has a budget of around $300 million and is the home of the Marine Corps Officer Candidates School. The Marine Corps Research Center at Quantico pursues equipment research and development, especially telecommunications, for the Marine Corps. The Marine Corps Brig, a military prison, is also located at Quantico.
The base was designated as part of the Quantico Marine Corps Base Historic District by the National Register of Historic Places in 2001.[2][6][7] This district includes 122 buildings, two landscapes, a sculpture, and a water tower located within the Mainside area of the base.[8] The contributing properties with separate entries include Tennessee Camp, Camp French, Commanding General's Quarters, and Rising Hill Camp.
It is the site of the Marine Corps Combat Development Command and Marine Helicopter 1 HMX-1. HMX-1 was the first helicopter squadron to provide rapid transportation of U.S. Presidents, a mission they have continued to carry out to the present day.
Marine Corps Embassy Security Group
Marine Corps Marathon
Marine Corps Combat Development Command
Marine Corps Warfighting Laboratory
Marine Corps Recruiting Command
Manpower and Reserve Affairs Division, Headquarters Marine Corps
Marine Corps Systems Command
Marine Corps Training and Education Command
The Basic School
Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) Staff Training Program
Marine Corps University
Officer Candidates School
Marine Corps Network Operations Security Command
Marine Corps Wounded Warrior Regiment
Tenant activities[edit]
Marine Corps Memorial at the front gate of MCB Quantico.
The base is the home of major training institutions for both the Marine Corps and federal law enforcement agencies, including:
Defense Intelligence Agency
Drug Enforcement Administration training academy
FBI Academy, the principal research and training facility of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and the principal training facility for the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) are also located on the base.
FBI Hostage Rescue Team (HRT)
FBI Laboratory
Marine Raider Museum
Naval Criminal Investigative Service Headquarters, Army CID Headquarters, AFOSI Headquarters
A replica of the United States Marine Corps War Memorial, depicting the 2nd U.S. flag-raising on Iwo Jima, stands at the entrance to the base. (The original memorial stands at the north end of Arlington National Cemetery.)
Marine Corps Base Quantico and the Potomac River surround the town of Quantico. Access to the town is possible only through the base, the Amtrak train station, or from the river.
See also[edit]
List of United States Marine Corps installations
Chopawamsic Island
Breckenridge Reservoir
References[edit]
This article incorporates public domain material from websites or documents of the United States Marine Corps.
The National Museum of the Marine Corps
USMC Base Quantico Overview & PCS Information (MarineCorpsUSA.org)
There are generally 5 sources of appointments:
(1) Military Academy - The academies.
(2) Direct Appointment - Doctors, Lawyers and Chaplains get insta-Officered in their respective corps (JAG, Medical, Chaplain), military also gives them advanced grade based on professional study (most doctors and lawyers enter as CPTs)
(3) ROTC - Most common, graduate from college with an ROTC program leads to commission upon graduation with BA/BS
(4) OCS - A means by which enlisted personnel can be trained as officers. Usually the enlisted personnel in question must have at least 2 years of college and must complete a BA or BS within 4 years of commissioning
(5) Battlefield* (has not been used in Army since Korea) - battlefield leadership performance leads to promotion to officer rank, in WW2 this was also because the NCO in question was filling a slot that normally was held by an officer