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.

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

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

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.

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

@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.

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! 🇺🇸❤️🇺🇸

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.

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

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!

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

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!

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 ...

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.

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

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

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, 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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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!!

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

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.

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 .

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.

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 there in 1993, its changed a lot.

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%

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

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

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.

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

Thank you for your service sir.

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.

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 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!

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

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.

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

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

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

Damn brings back memories

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.

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!

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

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

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

These are definitely POG barracks

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.

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

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.

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

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!!!!

Can’t wait to be here

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.

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

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

Nice video! Thank you for sharing.

Hoorah to all my brothers out there

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.

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 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.

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

My daughter is headed to nc thanks very helpful!👊

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.

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

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.........

Man i was 1833 AAV in 88 my it looks totally different now. WOW brings back memories.

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.

other than the roommate part this actually looks nicer than air force dorms, that common area is crazy nice

Long way since '87. Plus ears pierced!! Crazy!

About time the upgraded the living conditions of the Barracks. When I lived in the barracks they were comparable to Jail Cells.

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.

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

The U.S. Military and the Corps as part of it have changed a lot. Man! Those barracks would be BOQs when I was in. I slept in a lot of open squad bays. Then BBQs on and off. Lots of room, creature comforts personality, and individuality. That's not a bad thing to a point. I think it's a good thing more than anything. Marines have to grow up and be adults in their personal lives also.

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.

Thank you so much for sharing

OMG!!! This is the Hilton!

Ayeee WC 165. I miss this gem😂

My barracks was rectangular with concrete walls...floors...ceiling. The head was shared by 2 sections. Each side had 4 shitters (no doors) 4 urinals, 4 sinks and 4 showers. You shared a bunk and used your wall lockers to form a cubical. It was a challenge to fart and see how many cubes you could affect. Good times.

When I was in the Marine Corps, it was 75 guys in wooden barracks, and you had fire watch duty. My take-home pay was $114 everything two weeks.

Wow old barracks were dumps. New guys take so easy and relax

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!

Love from DeKalb Mississippi USA 🇺🇸

When I got to my first training station Millington, TN in 1978 we lived in open squad bays broken into 4 man cubes with curtains. Nobody lived on the first floor due to the raw sewerage flowing out of the broken pipes and out the back doors to the yard. Stayed that way for the 6 months I was there if you complained you got to walk Firewatch on the first floor.

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

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

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

I was there in 79' for combat engineer school. We hit the E Club almost every night. On one night my buddy had guard duty on the grave yard shift but came out with us anyway and got pretty wasted. Needless to say, he passed out on duty that night. No office hours our court martial for this boy. Our Gunny woke his ass up early that morning and him fall out to the parking lot. There waiting for him was a nice warm 6 pack. He had to chug one then run laps around the parking lot until he threw up. Then come back and get another on and so on. You get the picture. I'm 60 now but I love to reminisce with you youngsters. Semper Fi!

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

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