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I was actually 30 at the time I’m actually 52 now I’ll be 53 this coming July. Cornerstone always be in our hearts.

This was all shot with a Hitachi 2400 VHS camcorder bought in Jan 1992. Decent enough quality. I knew people with camcorders from the 80's and their videos were all jumpy and staticky, with terrible sound. If you check out some of the live shows I shot in 1992, the sound quality is pretty darn good! These 9th Comm Bn VHS tapes have sitting in my basement for almost 30 years and they came out pretty good amazingly.

And those were California prices, while the rest of the country was probably around $1 per gallon. Didn't notice it before but while driving by, I looked at what was playing at the base theater...Memoirs of an Invisible Man, what a terrible movie! Chevy Chase should have did Caddyshack and stopped at Fletch! Out of curiosity, I checked Google Maps to see if I could find, based on the drive on Vandergrift Rd going by the MCAS, where my friend was moving into. There's a quick clip of me panning around and I catch street signs Hamilton and Hawkins. This was in 1992, so I figure they may have changed the name or something, but no. I found it, no street view obviously. Still named Hamilton St. and Hawkins St. according to Google Maps. At the end of the video we look out the back window and it's just a field, now it's a Day Care Center. I zoom out Google Maps and notice that right down the road from Stuart Mesa Base Housing is...Edson Range, where us Hollywood Marines did our 2nd Phase training at Boot Camp! Fond memories of arms and legs going to sleep in the snap-in circles. Shooting Pizza Box for rifle qualification ( I wrecked it on 300 rapid fire ), and way out beyond the range, I found the Gas Chamber, which they now call the Confidence Chamber.

Looking at Google Maps, Bldg 13109 is now part of Separations? I got out in July 1993 and Separations was waaaay down by Vandergrift and the road that leads to the golf course. Google Maps now shows it as what looks to be a square pavement with a few electrical poles or something. I guess they moved Separations up to civilization. Also that road just on the other side of where the promotion thing was, that used to run all the way to that street where the Motor Pool is, and that diagonal building used to be the 13 Area Guard Shack, where I did many many stints. I have another video from when I was on guard duty. I gotta know, do they still do the Blood Stripe, or is that completely off-limits? I would hope that is still unofficially happens. It was still a no-no in 1992, but nobody cared. It was one of those things you didn't do around the Company office, and waited until you were well out of sight of pu$$y little officers who would probably tattle like a little b1tch. I couldn't walk for a couple days.

I was already a metalhead, but 1991 and 1992 is when I discovered Death Metal. The only thing I know about "Black Metal" at that time was it was a Venom record 😀. It wasn't until I got out of the Marines in Summer 1993 that I discovered Black Metal (Emperor, Burzum, Mayhem, Enslaved, etc).

@megiloth3634 Those are some of my favorites. I also relate to the barracks life (I was AF 2003-2009), and this is pretty similar. Only difference was my neighbors hated the constant metal being played (they were into rap).

@@b.entranceperium Same thing when I was in Okinawa. Guys in the room below us in the barracks were into hip-hop stuff. After a few hours of thump thump thump, we decided to place the Cerwin Vegas with 15" woofers face down on the floor and blasted some Godflesh. That put an end to that nonsense!

Before checking into 9th Comm Bn at Camp Pendleton, I spent 4 months at Shepard AFB in Wichita Falls. Lot of barracks life and hanging out with Airmen and Lady Airmen 😀as there were just a handful of us Marines there for tech school. Good times...especially when us Marines would head off-base to party and we would shew away the Airmen, and take off with the gals for ourselves for the weekend.

Oh man, how disrespectful of me to exclude the Director of Show No Mercy!! LANCE MANION

@@megiloth3634 I should start introducing myself as Lance Manion. I'll definitely get instant respect - WORD!

I had to explain Hill Street to my wife. Lots of young boot Jarheads with those fa66y red satin jackets!!!

yeah, there were only a handful of us that had camcorders. I basically bought it because I knew I was going to Cornerstone that summer before heading over to Okinawa, and I wanted to video some shows...which quite a few are on my TH-cam...The Crucified, Circle of Dust (first show), Living Sacrifice, Deitiphobia, very young P.O.D. (before they blew up), my buds in DigHayZoose, and your favorite, Mortal!!

I would have been turning 23…and that’s been over half a life ago. Turning 53 this July!! My where the time goes.

Also wants the tan order about no filming on base lol.

I never heard of that. I started doing guard duty here when I checked into 9th Comm Bn in August 1990...I graduated my tech school the same day Saddam Hussein invaded Kuwait, so this was a weird time. I didn't go over to Desert Shield until later that year, but I did guard duty in September 1990 and October 1990. After 9th Comm Bn returned from Desert Storm, I went back on guard duty every few months. I even volunteered for it because it was 2 days on and 2 days off for 30 days away from your platoon. Gunny McCastle was always the guy in charge there. I actually think this was his duty station, he was there for at least the 3 years I was there. We would have some occasion excitement during front desk duty especially when closing the E-Club behind the building, but occasionally MP's would bring in violent drunks. Never any shootings though!

@@luisbenavidez5122 Heck, this was 1992. Different times. I only remember a few of us even having a camcorder.

@@megiloth3634 yeah it’s definitely a cool video. I was thinking how some things never change, a-lot of the Marines in this video remind me of people I know. I remember making that drive to the armoury before with the staff and that motor pool on 13th street (I think) is where I worked for a bit. If that HQ building is in the 13th or 14th area someone told me a marine shot up duty back in the 2010’s and killed a staff.

Cool! This was after 9th Comm Bn returned from Operation Desert Storm. A lot of us had a nice bank account going since we didn't really spend anything over "there" except on cigarettes and 35mm film for our cameras. I bought this giant VHS camcorder and had to shoot pointless video with it...as you can see 😄 You may like another video when I was on guard duty. The building is now (according to Google Maps) a post office next to the E-Club there. It used to be the 13 Area Guard, and the road next to 9th Comm BEQ's used to go from the MP barracks all the way through to the fence where 9th Comm Supply, BAS, Armory, Motor T, etc are (or at least were in 1992). th-cam.com/video/MFJ9eKGLT5E/w-d-xo.htmlsi=PoCAS9bktoRBZl6O

I appreciate the response. So the pentagram was burned into the floor? I wonder if it was a 3 fingered demon that did it, since we all know demons only have 3 fingers because everybody seems to only get scratched with 3 claws. As for the whole Satanism angle, I'm guessing it was some self-styled "Satanist" who thought sacrificing animals is what Satanists do. A bit too much of the 80's Satanic Panic creeping into their heads. Satanism is simply Humanism, they don't believe in or worship a Devil, like Christians do with God. It's all symbolic, with maybe a flair for the dramatic when donning robes and doing rituals like reading the Lord's Prayer backwards. Even if what the tenant did was actual Satanic worship involving blood rituals in the basement and sacrifices...not really afraid of anything happening to me.

Stop clutching your pearls. We did not break in. We were not trespassing. We paid our $300 or whatever it costs for an overnight. Because I ducked under a sign, I'm the scourge of the paranormal community. Ok. I asked a couple friends about it, very recognizable names in the paranormal community, and they mentioned there is a sign but it's not like it's blocked off. If the basement is really off limits, I would suggest maybe putting a padlock on the door. And then if someone breaks it off to go into the basement, there's an issue. Ducking under string, I'm not really feeling bad.

Good point. When we go on our anniversary trips to these locations we are always respectful of the location and don't antagonize or provoke. Have only done that once and it was in addressing potential haunting reason...a p3d0ph1l3 that committed $u1c1d3 about 10 years ago. We take it pretty seriously and debunk as much as possible. Too much garbage out there (especially in the media) saying basically if you hear taps on the wall, it's a demon. A light flickers, it's a evil spirit. Everything evil, spooky, and dark. Nope. Never been scared...the closest was being startled. You can see that on one of my earlier videos from 2017 called Sallie House Nursery....yeah, that's startled us. That was not fake reactions. Genuine reaction based on what happened. We have a good time and just experience stuff if and when it happens. And always look forward to EVP's when we get back home from a sound recorder...and not that sketchy early version of sound recorders (DR60) certain ghost hunting bros like to use and make up words they hear on it.