My father was a Marine. He was strict on us (he and my mother had five girls) but gave us life lessons that we all keep to this day. I have MUCH respect for the Marine corps.

A good portion of us were moved into those newer barracks but a lot of us including myself remained in the old black mold barracks due to limited spacing. Those of you who got the 4 star hotel experience were extremely blessed

Wow! I was stationed at Camp Lejeune back in 1967 - '68. Then from 1969 (returned from Nam) to 1972. While writing this I heard you call a rack a bed and the head a bathroom 😂 I am happy the barracks we had back in the 60's in the 2nd Marines and 8th Marines area are now BEQs. As a former Company Gunny I was thinking of a Field Days and the Skippers Friday Inspection. Oh, you said closet. I yelled closet! I would have called it a locker. Did you say dumpster instead of shit can 😂 All jokes aside, I am very happy our Marines are living good. Good job Marine. Semper Fi

This was my old barracks when I was stationed on Lejeune. We were actually the first ones to move into it back in 2016 when it was finished being furnished. Exceptionally better compared to our old barracks in French Creek.

Damn the Marine Corps has come a long way since the early 90's.

The irony that the barracks looks better than some college campuses yet civilians think Marines live in FOBS all day and are “uncivilized” 🤦‍♂️

Amazed at how nice the enlisted barracks are now. About time.

Looks new and improved....but as Marines they’ll find new and improved ways to fuck it up. Can only imagine the games that could be played field daying and inspecting a place like that.

Keep it going! My older brother took me on a tour in 2007 of Camp Lejeune. He's a retired Master Gunnery Sergeant and served for 27 years in the Marines.

@TrellTheGreat thank you for making this video. My late father was a Montford Point Marine. I grew up in Jacksonville, and still live here. I so appreciate you for doing this, because I have been wanting to see what the new Barracks look like from inside. Thank you so much! Stay safe, and God bless you.

Wow. I was in the Navy in the mid 70's and at that time the Marines were still living in WW2 quonset huts and one bay barracks. Nice!

God bless you and protect you. 🙏 thank you making this video. I dropped my daughter off at airport this A.M. on her way to Camp Lejeune. She's my HERO! 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸

Geez, I wish we had facilities like this in the 60's-70's. That would have been friggin HEAVEN.

Trell, Congrats on this wonderful video. I am jealous of you guys Barracks. I was in Camp Lejeune from 1978 to 1982. Big change for this beautiful barracks now. Thank you for sharing. Semper-Fi.

I been thinking bout joining the marines and these videos are very helpful, really appreciated bro.✊🏽

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHOS SERVED OR IS SERVING. THANK YOU FOR YOUR SERVICE!!!!

Wow!!! We had only 3 washing machines & 2 dryers per floor and 4 man rooms for E 3 and below..but you Marines deserve the nice stuff...ooh rah ..semper fi ...

New subscriber. Barracks look great, wish we had those when I was in 1973-1977. I lived in the open squad bay; Area 1 towards the old hospital. Proud of you young Marines.

Hey man. I've got to meet a bunch of you guys in camp legeune from building gaming pcs. And all of you are such awesome kind people. Thank you for everything you guys do.

Seeing your video has brung me alot of memories!! They have made some upgrades since my days in the 80s !! Semper Fi !!

This is so cool my brother has been living in camp lejeune for 2 years now I went there over Christmas break it was very beautiful

Great video. Thank you. Semper Fi. Thank you for serving our country.

Yes Courthouse Bay!! Man the barracks are sweet looking !! Good for the young Marines! Thanks for the tour bro I was there in 94 for basic engineering school and in 97 for journeyman school. Good to see you are living large. We used to have the old prison beds lol. Love the shoe collection. We could just afford a pair of go fasters and boots.

Wow! I was there for several years in early 80! I was Corpsman! The Marines stayed in open squad bays, section off in platoons! Racks were set up like bunk beds! Swept and mopped cement floors! Wall lockers!

My son is in these barracks right now and they are deff nice, they even have a gdamn parking garage. I'm happy for the young marines that get to sty in them though and glad the corps is taking care of you guys and your living spaces.

TRELL I really like this video really cool. Thanks for sharing your Marine life.

My son lives in the older ones and they look like a rundown hotel from the 70s. I guess grunts don't deserve nice things. After all my son is just a 0311 designated marks man who takes out high valued targets. Sorry if I sound salty but the first time I visited I was stunned. I thought your building was a hotel!!! He's in the barracks across from the the chicken shack (chow hall) he's on his first MEU but I guess he will be back in the crap room when he comes back. He does not complain and he love living with his brothers. One thing I have noticed is grunts have a strong sense of brotherhood. And have each other's back 100%

I'm amazed, so much improvement since I was in. We had guys that hid their nunchucks and blow guns in the AC vents

Do a video on like your life before you enlisted and why ..like how did you feel when you went to see a recruiter or when you told your family

Trell, Congrats. You guys have a great building. Big rooms, almost batter then Hotels. Lol. I did 10 years between Camp Lejeune and Camp Geiger. Our building were from WWII, time. Great job with video, keep up excellent work. Semper-Fi.

I about crapped when I seen this. I was in heavy guns 1/6 in the 80's. Damn has things changed. Now dealing with cancer but thank God the VA is taking care of me.

I just had to say something… I was a 1959 Jarhead and I am speechless and that’s a good thing after seeing this. All I will say is WOW.

I was there in the early 90s. The barracks have definitely improved drastically. I was in the French Creek barracks. They were smaller, didnt have refrigerators or microwaves and the beds were definitely not as nice and it was three guys per room. But it was still some of the best times of my life. Thanks for your service!!

love your channel g. Went you blow up just remember i was a day 1.

Thanks for the tour,nice to see our Marines have a very nice place. I did my combat engineering schoo (MOS 1371 ) there back in 1974 .

WOW!!!!! I was in 1/10 for years and years. Lived in squadbays on O street Forever. Didn't finally get the BEQ's till after Desert Storm. That place is awesome. Congrats.

I was at Camp Lejuene 1974-77 H&S 1/2. The only thing my barracks and yours had in common………..Barbasol shaving cream!!

Joining the Marines cause of you bro bro. Answered all my questions wit your videos .. prepared to become a better individual with the help of the Marine Corp

Thank you for serving. My son is at Lejeune right now(9/26/22). I hope to visit him soon. Please take care and be safe. Thank you again

I'm going to have to come back and see the changes . It's sure changed since the 70's .

Damn I’m an 11 at Kanohe Bay in Hawaii, way nicer then our Bricks haha. Keep it up brother

I was with 8th and 6th Marines at Camp Geiger. We still had open squad bays. I worked in the comm center, half the time at night (as it never closes), only to come back in the morning to a noisy barracks where you could barely get any sleep. The heads outside the comm center were so old. There was like 20 toilets and urinal tubs out in the open with no privacy at all. They started to upgrade everything just as I was getting out.

I was The first group that moved in to those Barricks at Wallace Creek and they are very nice, a big upgrade to our old ones which were terrible, black mold And leaky roofs. Being infantry and living in Air Force type barracks was the shit

Those are badass barracks !!!!!!!! 🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯🤯

Those barracks are a LOT nicer than the ones I was in at Cherry Point! Nice stuff

Yoo I live 5 minutes down the road from that i pass the barracks on the fwy all the time always wanted too know what it looked like thanks for postin ✌🏼👍🏼👍🏼

I was in the US Army and was stationed at Fort Campbell, KY. We had our own rooms my last year in. However, before we moved into new barracks, we were living in Vietnam Era barracks. Yet, we still got our own rooms there too. Otherwise, I wish you the best of luck during your time as a Marine. Hooah!

I fuck with the content youre one of the few who actually keeps it real.

I was there in 1993, its changed a lot.

I am impressed! I lived in the old H-style barracks, open squad bay when I was at Lejeune. We had one wall locker and we all built a foot locker for ourselves. We had two racks per space like at Parris Island.

Thank you for your service sir.

Wow! This would be almost Air Force standards back in my day (1995-99)...incredible. Swing by HP 550 behind 10th Marines HQ bldg., I bet it hasn't changed a bit! Semper Fi!

Damn that’s a big change from when I was there in 78’.

My first Barracks at Camp Pendelton was an open squad bay with racks and wall lockers between the racks, never had that kind of luxury in the 4 years I was in. The closest thing to it was when they brought in portions to the SGT. squad bay to separate the sleeping area in the squad bay. This was at Quantico in 1972. A lifetime ago. We also got rid of our bunk beds and given a twin bed. LOL

I was at Geiger and Lejeune '88 '92. Deployed 4 times and always had to stay in open squad bays when we got back. These new barracks are nice. It's changed a lot.

I worked on WCRC. Was phase 1. Your parking lot was a sea of mud then. LOL 😆,did tile work all over that place. Your barracks were just getting started when I left. Armory n mechanics shop n Commodants offices were verry near complete. Thanks,always wondered how that place turned out!!!!

When I was in you might get one or two wall lockers. The beds were metal bunkbeds. You would have anywhere from two to four marines to a barracks room, and desks were not provided. I spent most of a year once in a quonset hut built in WWII. I also spent a chunk of 1997 in what was the newest barracks building at MCLB Barstow.

My daughter is headed to nc thanks very helpful!👊

Nice video! Thank you for sharing.

Bro honestly with what I’m going through in life, this is perfect , and to share with your best friend? Cmon now I’m not one to be picky, seems like the military is the thing I wanna do

Thank you for your service

Man the barracks came along way on Lejeune. Man i was fleet in 08-12 in the 6th Marines barracks. Shoutout to all my Marjah Marines out there.

POG life at it's finest. Our barracks had a swastika on it when the other dudes left for deployment lmao Water always backed up.

LeJeune looked nothing like that back in the ‘90s 😅😂🤣

Can’t wait to be here

Damn brings back memories

Semper Fi !!! 2nd Ceb Corpsman 1991-1995. I recognize that entry gate but the rest wow!! Alot of changes since 95.

These are definitely POG barracks

Definitely not what I had when I was on lejuene we had two racks alittle ass fridge two wall lockers and a shared head with two rooms air never worked in summer and no heat in the winter LMAO ... Semper Fl brother

I worked at the Brig on Lejeune near French Creek I got out of the mc back in August. You lucky bastard, our barracks was one of the oldest on Lejeune, it had black mold, roaches, it had been condemned. I used to see the super nice ones they built by Wallace Creek and always wished I could live there.

Man! If only I had stayed in 30+ to see barracks like this!!! I was at Johnson, rack and a wall locker, that was it!!! All kidding aside, I'm jealous but glad to see they finally give up some money to make the barracks decent! Field day must suck though, more space, more games.........

Just got my place packed up. Selling my car this week, I’m 23 nervous about this but I’m excited to make the change. I’ve done the college life and living on my own working a 9-5 but so far I’ve found nothing but disinterest in all of these things. I’m hoping the marines infantry will show me I at least can be miserable with other people the dorms look like they could be a good time but hoping my Roomate doesn’t suck

Jesus! What a great barracks. Was stationed at Camp Lejeune in 1965 with 6th Marines 3/6. Our living accommodations consisted of squad bays with bunk beds with a double wall lockers in between. No privacy at all. Communal bath rooms,eight “shitters” side by side with. Nothing like trying to take a dump with someone doing the same thing less that two feet from you with no partition between you. One big shower with maybe a dozen shower heads. Maybe 60 Jarheads per squad bay. Only E-6 and above had a small room. On payday nites we would take the “vomit comet”, the last bus back from JVille back to Lejuene and wake up the whole squad bay turning on the lites and and raising hell. What great freaking memories. Semper Fi.

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I had that same headboard in 1973... Seriously, that far better than anything the Army provides.

Part of the barracks experience is hanging out on the cat walks. Your son is lucky. These new Marines will never know the experience. I lived in the old ones with the catwalks. Many great times hanging out on them.

I was in 1/8 comm company back in the 70"s . We had 1 open bay that the entire platoon slept in , NCO's had a partition separating them from the non NCO's . I would appreciate it if i could see their barracks now . And do they still use the quonset huts for their work area ?

Surprised the barracks have elevators and key cards. Back in the day, we only had ladder wells in the late 80’s.

Thank you so much for sharing

do a video of "Day in the life as a infantry Marine" and video tape your morning routine and what you do threwout the day like eating at chow and going to the gym etc and add music. video tape all day until the night time.!!!!

Nice rooms👍 my husband was there on the base 1994.

It’s good to see these great improvements being provided for our Marines. They are well deserved and should be the normal standard on every USMC base. I would hate to tell you how bad the living conditions were for enlisted Marines back when I served in 1968 thru 1974. Old Wooden squad bays, crowded with lines of metal bunk beds, flat soiled mattresses, no pillows, rusted & broken metal lockers, cold in the winter, hot in the summer, highlighted by gang toilets and showers that were WW2 vintage and difficult to keep clean…….how in the hell do you clean & polish a turd. Good old Corps.

Damn son, I was at Courthouse Bay 1966. These new barracks are like hotels compared to double racks in squadbays. Good for you guys! In 1966 Lejuene and especially Jville were shitholes.

good ol 1/2, i spent a lot of time in that treeline

Im in camp Johnson right now living in almost identical barracks as you lol same closets beds and everything 😂

Holy crap, far cry from our squad bays in the seventies. You guys have the biggest man cave ever. Hey can you do a video of the old second tank btln area

WOW the barracks look like hotels now. It has improved 100% I was there in 1999 and it look nothing like that and we had 3 to a room and one sink and a half fridge thats all you got LoL

Damn! I remember I was helping put furniture in the new barracks that were just built off November Street, back in 1991. They were absolutely nothing like this. You kids are spoiled!

Big step up from the three man rooms, wall locker and one desk of the 80s. Oh, and no corridors. Everything opened outside. We had a steakhouse, Burger King, Bowling alley, movie theatre and the BX.

Gahdamn! Looks like a vacation home! We had lockers not closets, no fridge, no microwave, no kitchen sink, racks had to have green wool blanket , no hats or figurines allowed out like that, walls were brick, no desk, floors were tile that had to be waxed every field day. The head was nothing like that, had a glass door that had to be polished ... You have it cake walk.

Way better than the barracks we stayed in when I was in the Marines at Camp Lejeune

Thanks for the video . Great barracks . Can you do a video on PX ?

Lived in Jacksonville my whole life and never realized you were on LeJeune smh, stuck at Quantico for a bit now

I was there from 1989-93… we had “new” barracks and they were nothing like that.. glad they keep upgrading.. we had the chow hall, Burger King,& subway.. that’s it 8:04

Oh, you are right across the way from me. I think I got out before you got in tho.

I was gonna ask if you could grill, since you don’t have a stove, but that just answered itself, thank you.

Hoorah to all my brothers out there

You should look into making a video about the things you're allowed to take to boot camp and be sent.

Man, what a change from the early 80’s. I want to move back in. You guys are LIVING LARGE....

I joined in 1976 in my 17 years I never had or seen barracks like that before, we open squad bays and than we had 3 man rooms, even the common area was that great.