Damn, you are older than me. I did not get to MCRD San Diego until 1980. Semper Fi brother. You can say anything you want about MCRD San Diego.Generals Die in Bed
Why did I go through 8 weeks of boot camp there when before the war, it was 12 weeks? If the decadent 60s Marine Corps had really cared about us, they would have made it 16 weeks when the war started getting hot.
They rushed us over there unprepared and then compounded the cannon-fodder treatment by volunteering for an area (smack dab against the DMZ) that we didn't have enough troops to hold. After the NVA invaded during Operation Prairie (August 3, 1966), we had to give up half our Tactical Area of Responsibility to the Army's Americal Division. That area included a Communist stronghold called My Lai.