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Established in 1801, Marine Barracks Washington, is the "Oldest Post of the Corps" and has been the residence of every commandant of the Marine Corps since 1806. The selection of the site for the Barracks was a matter of personal interest to President Thomas Jefferson, who rode through Washington with Lt. Col. William Ward Burrows, the second commandant of the Marine Corps, in search of a suitable location. The site now occupied was approved due to its proximity to the Washington Navy Yard and because it was within easy marching distance of the Capitol.
Marine Barracks Washington, D.C.
8th & I

May 27, 2012

Marines and French soldiers carry wreaths to be laid at the base of the chapel by distiguished guests during a Memorial Day commemoration ceremony to pay tribute to the American and French lives lost during the Battle of Belleau Wood at Aisne-Marne American Memorial Cemetery, May 27. The ceremony marked the 94th anniversary of the battle and represented the long-lasting America...n-French friendship, brotherhood forged before the battle grounds of World War I to the current operations in Afghanistan. The cemetery has 2,039 known-buried, and 250 unidentified, who lay in the slopes of the hill. In the chapel, more than a 1,000 are inscribed in remembrance of the missing.

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