Coffee and Grit(@CoffeeNGrit):Good Saturday morning, y’all!!! Grab yourself a big mug of hot, black coffee! Today we’re taking a one-day break from Korea. September 19, 1949: The End of Montford Point Seven years earlier, the first Black Marine recruits had started arriving at a segregated training camp outside Camp Lejeune called Montford Point. More than 20,000 Marines would train there before it closed in 1949. Today, we’re going to talk about some of them! Semper Fi!

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2026.09.19 09:07

Good Saturday morning, y’all!!! Grab yourself a big mug of hot, black coffee! Today we’re taking a one-day break from Korea. September 19, 1949: The End of Montford Point Seven years earlier, the first Black Marine recruits had started arriving at a segregated training camp outside Camp Lejeune called Montford Point. More than 20,000 Marines would train there before it closed in 1949. Today, we’re going to talk about some of them! Semper Fi!