“Our population is comprised mostly of young and healthy individuals,” a Marine Corps spokesman wrote. “There are several reasons someone may not yet have received the vaccine.”
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Frosted Windows, Shower Signs: What It Took to Get the Marines San Diego Boot Camp Ready for Female Recruits
New Marines in Platoon 3241 complete tasks in their squad bay before boot camp graduation in April 2021 at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego, California. (Hope Hodge Seck/Staff)
22 May 2021
MCRD San Diego When Marine leaders defend the Corps historic resistance to further gender integration of recruit training, they often bring up infrastructure as a major challenge. The two Marine Corps boot camps, built in the 1910s, are simply not built to accommodate companies integrated by gender.
Gen. David Berger, commandant of the Marine Corps, even suggested last year that the service would have to close down its existing training bases and build new ones to carry out a congressional integration mandate.
‘The Biggest Impact’
When President Jim McCarthy joined the North Florida Land Trust in 2014, the non-profit conservation organization had a $233,000 budget and a staff of three. In seven years, the trust has grown to 14 full-time employees and a budget of $8 million and has secured protection for more than 25,000 acres.
“The secret to that (success) is finding really good people,” McCarthy says. “But, we have also stayed focused on where we could have the biggest impact.”
The organization achieves its mission of preserving the natural resources, historic places and working lands of North Florida by purchasing or receiving donations of land, as well as by helping public agencies with real estate transactions.