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MCRD San Diego Marks its Centennial

West Coast Base Blends Historic Architecture With the Corps’ Modern Mission By Barbara McCurtis One of the first platoons to graduate from the new West Coast Recruit Depot in San Diego, Calif., was 4th Plt, Co C, on Sept. 28, 1923. Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego is celebrating its 100th birth­­day and its beginnings

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One Marine’s Return to Adak island, Alaska

By Dr. Barry Erdman Looking east from the Marine barracks in Adak with the Great Sitkin volcano visible in the distance during the winter of 1980. Background The island of Adak, Alaska, is about 1,250 miles west of Anchorage, and sits in the middle of the Aleutian chain of islands in the Bering Sea. Adak

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