Touring the Marine Military Academy in Harlingen, Texas

Eric & I pass the Iwo Jima
Monument on our way to a
tour of the Marine Military
Academy.










This is a replica of the Memorial in Washington, D.C.

A Tank & two pieces of

World War II Field

Artillery Pieces guard

the parking lot.

Eric and I are part of a group of twenty visitors from Tropic Winds RV Resort that will be touring the school.

A Marine Military Academy
Bus comes to take us to the

Retired Gunnery Sergeant

Frank Martinez is our

Tour Guide.

He and other retired military staff the Academy.  ... And we're off...

The entrance of the Marine
Military Academy







Opened in 1965, the Academy uses a portion of the former Army Air Corps Air Field to educate young men in the eighth through twelfth grades.   Annual tuition is $41,050.00, which includes room and board, meals, uniforms...

The President's Quarters

I wonder if this was the Base Commander's Quarters.

We watched a short film on the Academy's Summer Camp and its emphasis on physical training and team work skills.  With military instructors and a strict daily schedule there is little time left for hanging out, TV, video games.

Students live in Barracks that
were built in the late 1930s.

Lower Classmen have

a roommate.

I carefully inspected
the room.

It is the model of
military orderliness.





Cadets enjoy an update that US Army Air Fliers didn't have... air conditioning.

Harold James Memorial

Library

We pass the Math-Science Building, the Social Sciences and Foreign Language Center, the Administration Building....

... & stop at the Florence E. King
Athletic Center

One of several

 Trophy Cases

This is the home of the
Fighting Leathernecks







There's a choice of sports to participate in here...  Baseball, Basketball, Boxing, Cross Country, Cycling, Football, Golf, Jiu Jitsu, Soccer, Swimming, Tennis, Track and Field and Weight Lifting.

The Weight Room...

.... has words of wisdom
for young men.

Push yourself because no
one else is going to do it
for you.

Part of the Academy's

Confidence Course in

"the back forty."

The Climbing Wall

Our last stop is the

Neuhaus Mess Hall

More trophies...

I like this plaque.

Our group returns to the bus and we thank Gunnery Sargent Martinez for the tour.  Our next stop is the small Iwo Jima Museum and Gift Shop, near the memorial.