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All I know if that they use to have an active post and station rifle team that would come up and shoot interservice rifle matches at Quantico.
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Jacksonville is a dump.
I didn't like Camp Lejeune much.
Jville was junk when I was at C.L. but I noticed that they completely closed off the downtown area. What's with that? Was the reputation so bad that it got shut down?
Yup it's one world for the single types, a totally different world for the married-with-family types either on-base or off-base.
Any way you cut it, it stinks for single types and you get real familiar, real fast, with "the swoop." You live for 72's and 96's and get out of Dodge as fast as you can. Most guys headed for Norfolk, DC, or Raleigh/Durham. Some even set out for NYC.
Floats and deployments can be interesting but never something to bet on.
If you are married it seemed like most families thought it was fine except for July and August, when the weather is pretty bad -- hot, humid, still (except for right on the coast).
Deploying out of Lejeune gets you to different parts of the world than deploying from Pendleton does. (Not sure if that is part of your decision making criteria or not?)
Camp Lejeune has the largest concentration of Marines in the world. It is extremely rare to fine a single (as in unmarried) service-member who liked the area, but for many of the married service members (such as my self), the area allowed us to transfer between operational and training assignments without tearing the families away from work, school, and friends every four years.
YMMV.
I'm Navy, not concerned about deploying, this would be a shore tour for me. I figured it would suck as a single officer but I can't imagine P.I. being any better. Still praying that something opens up anywhere else on the Eastern seaboard.
Still praying that something opens up anywhere else on the Eastern seaboard.
I'm Navy, not concerned about deploying, this would be a shore tour for me. I figured it would suck as a single officer but I can't imagine P.I. being any better. Still praying that something opens up anywhere else on the Eastern seaboard.