The Citadel campus looked a little different in the late spring\nand summer months, but not just because campus closed for cadets and students\ndue to the pandemic. Instead of cadets being issued gear on the\nred-and-white-checkered quads, it was Marine recruits, called poolees, who\noccupied the barracks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
On May 4, the U.S. Marine Corps began bringing its Eastern\nRegion recruits to The Citadel campus for two weeks of observation before\ntransporting them to the recruit depot at Parris Island where they would begin\nMarine Corps boot camp.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Medical screenings with systematic temperature checks were used\nto monitor for COVID-19 to assist in keeping the virus from spreading at Parris\nIsland. About 300 poolees arrived and departed every two weeks for 12 weeks,\nwith approximately 300 Marine personnel also on campus to facilitate the\noperation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The Marine Corps Times<\/em> reported that The Citadel was\nchosen for staging because it is \u201cuniquely postured to support the type of\nsupervision and training we were looking to conduct based on the layout of\ntheir barracks and proximity to the Depot and major airports.\u201d\n\nIn\na letter written to The Citadel and retired U.S. Marine Corps General Glenn M.\nWalters, \u201979, after the Marine Corps mission concluded in July, Brig. Gen.\nJulie L. Nethercot wrote, \u201cOur support agreement allowed the Marine Corps to\nprovide critically important safety measures for incoming Marine recruits in\norder to continue our mission of transforming the finest young Americans into\nMarines. The agreement we formed and executed over these past several months in\nthe fight \n\n\n\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Citadel campus looked a little different in the late spring and summer months, but not just because campus closed for cadets and students due to the pandemic. Instead of cadets being issued gear on the red-and-white-checkered quads, it was Marine recruits, called poolees, who occupied the barracks. On May 4, the U.S. Marine Corps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":694,"featured_media":778,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-864","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-other"],"yoast_head":"\n