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The Parris Island Museum is located at Building 111, Panama Street, Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island in Beaufort, South Carolina, United States.The museum consists of a 10,000-square-foot (930 m 2) facility and includes exhibits of the history of the United States Marine Corps as well as the history of the Port Royal region.
Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island (often abbreviated as MCRD PI) is an 8,095-acre (32.76 km 2) military installation located within Port Royal, South Carolina, approximately 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Beaufort, the community that is typically associated with the installation.
South Carolina 32°20′22″N 80°41′24″W / 32.33944°N 80.69000°W / 32.33944; -80.69000 ( Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Marine Corps Base Quantico
Interstate 77 passes through the western portions of the town, and exit 85 is signed "South Carolina Highway 160/Fort Mill." SC 160 is the main east–west street in Fort Mill. The town of Fort Mill held a final public hearing in October 2008 on a proposed annexation that doubled the town's physical size. [15] Fort Mill has three golf courses.
South Carolina Military Museum: Columbia: Richland: Midlands: Military: website, honoring SC's complete military history South Carolina Railroad Museum: Winnsboro: Fairfield: Old English District: Railroad: website, includes Rockton, Rion and Western Railroad heritage steam train ride, display of railroad cars and artifacts South Carolina State ...
Camp Gilbert H. Johnson is a satellite camp of Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville, North Carolina and home to the Marine Corps Combat Service Support Schools (MCCSSS), where various support military occupational specialties such as administration, supply, logistics, finance, Navy corpsman and motor transport maintenance are trained.
Port Royal is a town on Port Royal Island in Beaufort County, South Carolina, United States. The population was 14,220 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Hilton Head Island–Bluffton metropolitan area. Port Royal is home to Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island and United States Naval Hospital Beaufort.
The United States Marine Corps School of Infantry East is the next destination for all Marines trained at Marine Corps Recruit Depot Parris Island.Here, Marines of an infantry Military Occupational Specialty are trained in their specific field during a 59-day course at the Infantry Training Battalion, while non-infantry Marines attend a 29-day course known as Marine Combat Training.