Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego

But, um, so I slept on the top bunk, um, and Justin Summers at the bottom.

And, uh, being, um, at boot camp in MCRD San Diego, you got to see the, the fireworks from SeaWorld.

So there was one night, you know, they said, "Lights out," so obviously we go to-- or not "lights out," so obviously we go to sleep.

And, um, I'm at the top bunk, and I'm, like, pitched like this, and I'm seeing the fireworks, and it's like [mimics explosions].

He was pro- I think he was the shortest person in our platoon.

And we were up north, um...

When you go up north from MCRD San Diego, you go to Camp Pendleton, and that's where you do the range.

And, um, we were up north, and one of our, uh, drill instructors, uh, Estrada, is yelling at, uh, Aguilar, and he's telling him, um, like, he's telling him, like, "You need, you need to stop talking back to me," or so- along those lines, like, "Stop yelling at me" or something.

And meanwhile, Hegseth is here today, and you can probably...

I'm sure you've seen the viral videos of him running with some people at Marine Corps Recruit Depot, getting smoked.

No.

Getting smoked.

But anyway, still nightmares of San Diego.

That's where I went to Marine Corps boot camp, MCRD San Diego.

So anyway, so yeah, one of the good things, if you're one of those people that have been canceled from your Medicare Advantage plan, lucky you.

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They train BUDs.

The Marine Recruit Depot trains Marines.

NASCO is a naval shipyard that builds ships for the Navy.

Up the road is Camp Pendleton.

And, uh, and Monday morning came, man, and got shipped off, you know, to MAPS.

And then from MAPS, ended up there at MCRD, got off the bus, chaotic, you know? Get on the yellow footprints.

And, uh, I always had my head shaved, so I missed out on the haircut and having to, to, to spend some time with, with the hair poking you and stuff like that.

But I, I guess just kinda growing up, like the way I grew up, it, it, it was, it was pretty cool, you know? I, I guess that first week of initial shock, like, hey, what's going on? But everything was pretty straightforward, you know? You had, you had, um, your, your, your training schedule set up.

Um, and you're dealing with recruits that are, are going through boot camp and, and, um, initially, you're in charge of three targets.

Three targets, um, it could be a total of, uh, what is it? Anywhere from six to about maybe 18 kids, you know? 18, uh, recruits.

And, and, and so, so now here at Weapons Field Training Battalion, these two weeks, uh, you have the, the recruits that are going through boot camp, they travel north to Edson Range, Camp Pendleton, uh, from MCRD, which is there in San Diego, and this is where they begin their, their, their field training.

And so as, as they begin that, we as coaches, not yet a PMI 'cause the PMI breaks them down, uh, teaches them, but, uh, the PMI prepares them.

So 15 years, uh, where were you stationed?

I started out, uh, Marine Corps, right, so I went through MCRD San Diego.

Okay.

That was where boot camp was.

It was crazy, especially when you had...

MCRD was like a quarter mile down the road.

And you had the 32nd Street Naval Base.

You had Camp Pendleton that was an hour away.