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Marine Corps Recruit Depot to allow guests to attend in-person graduations
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Ong, Jermaine
and last updated 2021-04-12 18:34:07-04
SAN DIEGO (CNS) - Due to decreasing COVID-19 cases in San Diego County and elsewhere, a limited number of guests will be allowed to attend in- person graduation festivities at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot in San Diego, it was announced Monday.
Each Marine will now be able to welcome two guests to attend graduation starting April 22. Guests will have to undergo temperature screenings to enter the installation, face coverings will be mandatory, and strict social distancing will be expected.
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The Marine Corps has a history of considering the role of the spiritual in conflict going back to General John Lejeune.
There is no substitute for the spiritual in war. Miracles must be wrought if victories are to be won, and to work miracles men’s hearts must be afire with self-sacrificing love for each other, for their units, for their division, and for their country. If each man knows that all the officers and men in his division are animated with the same fiery zeal as he himself feels,
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