Marine Corp Recruit Depot (MCRD), Parris Island, SC, home of the Easter Recruiting Region Marine Corp Boot Camp, found itself in a situation common to Department of Defense (DOD) facilities. It had to deal with several different types of installed energy-related control systems that could not...
Charles left high school to join the United States Marine Corps. He did that shortly after he turned seventeen in 1969. PFC Charles Oropallo is shown above on the Parris Island parade deck. It was on a beautiful June day in 1969 that he graduated from boot camp in Parris Island. Charles ...
Morris Island, Fort Sumter, and other islands lie in and around Charleston harbor. Beaufort (1990 pop. 9,576), on Port Royal Island, is the main city of the Sea Islands. Parris Island is the Atlantic coast recruit-training center for the U.S. marine corps. St. Simons Island, Sea Isla...