Marines - shoreside

The basin is used for launching small craft by the U.S.M.C. as well as for training, but it remains open to boaters for anchoring – DO NOT GO ASHORE. When we arrived, there was some sort of training going on in a large parking lot on shore. It involved 4 or 5 HumVees with about 6 Marines in each one. They drove around in formation and would suddenly stop and the men would jump out and take up defensive positions around the vehicles. They did this over and over and we could hear a lot of the commands and critique from our boat – it sounded like special Marine language – “G-D Mo**#r fxxk*r – ded as he&l”. Or something like that. The HumVee troops quit work a little after dark and went back to the base with a truck from Enterprise Rental. Then some other Marines started practicing. They had big helicopters and made low and loud approaches over the water to some landing zone inland that we could not see. Polly said they were still at it at 10:00PM. I hope those guys finally got it right.