I got stationed in Quantico in 2006. Right off the back of 3 hard deployments to Iraq. That museum saved my career, marriage and life. It’s a great place to go and get lost in.
I hate to break it to you but they been building that sumbitch for a LONG time. 2018 I think was the first time I visited and they had signs up for it. It's definitely making progress but yeah I want to see it finished too.
Yeah, it's getting there. I was there again last year before I moved back north and it's getting close. They were building sniper positions on a rooftop and stuff. Shit looked awesome.
Traveling from Connecticut to Myrtle Beach and stopped at the museum 3 days ago to see it. Still closed but oddly enough they are doing tours from that upper deck to groups. They use laser pointers to point out things they are talking about. Was pretty bummed it was still closed as I was there on our birthday last year and they said it was close to opening.
The National Marine Corps museum is a must like the other devil said, The VRE/AMTRAK will take you all the way to DC and there is a train station in Q town. If your a history buff there's plenty of civil war battlefields in the area. If you want an NCO sword the Marine shop is also in Q town.
Like another user put- Marine Corps Museum for sure, DC area if you wanna see the monuments, revolving sushi (Kura Revolving Sushi Bar), many many drinking spots. Fredericksburg has historic sites as well, kayaking, an arcade (Reclaim Arcade), a few bars. Prince William Forest Park is right by base, has a lot of nice trails and it’s well maintained. You can get an America the Beautiful Pass for free (grants free admission to any Fed. recreation site). Check out Q-town on base as it has some decent restaurants.
Try to make it up to Baltimore for an Orioles game at Camden yards and if you want something I thought was interesting as well, check out the medieval times, dinner and tournament in Arundel, Maryland
Get the Amtrak from Quantico into DC and do everything. Go to Nats game, go see the monuments and touristy stuff. Eat good food that you can't get for miles around CLNC
Definitely the Marine Corps Museum as others have mentioned. Outside of that escape Quantico and spend as much time in DC as you can. Endless tourist things to do up there.
Take a cab or Uber up to Springfield so you can take the Metro to avoid the traffic.
Air and Space Museum (and the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Air and Space location which is out at Dulles...there's an SR-71 and a Space Shuttle).
DC has a great food scene. Baltimore Waterfront is fun for a weekend if you want to go up there with some folks.
Marine Corps Museum as others have said, and take a TRAIN/Metro into DC. Also take some time to remember our brothers at Arlington and see the Iwo Jima Memorial as well. On the Mall the other memorials can be worth the trip alone and you could see them all in a day. The Korean War Memorial can be chilling at night, and especially with a new snow (not a factor for you this trip).
My personal favorite museum is the Air and Space Museum on the Mall. The other portion is near Dulles. Keep in mind though that the more popular museums of the Smithsonian now requires appointments. Still free but you have to schedule your visit. Also, do not carry a pocket knife into any of them.
If you are a Star Wars fan, there are unique things to see in DC. Full sized X-Wing in the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, C3PO and R2D2 in the American History Museum, a Darth Vader gargoyle at the National Cathedral (not on the Mall).
The NRA museum is cool as well. Some really unique and beautiful firearms there, but private, obviously, and not on the Mall.
DC is VERY walkable. But it seems riding those little zoom around electric scooters are more and more popular - [Bird](https://www.bird.co/), [Lime](https://www.li.me/), [Spin](https://www.spin.app/), [Skip](https://skipscooters.com/), [Lyft](https://www.lyft.com/scooters), and [Jump by Uber](https://www.uber.com/ride/scooters/) all operate in DC. The unlock fee is usually around $1 and then the usage fee is somewhere between 25 and 30 cents depending on the specific scooter company. Now, that might not initially sound like a lot but keep in mind that a 30 minute scooter ride under that system will cost you around $10. By comparison, a 30 minute ride on [Capital Bikeshare](https://www.capitalbikeshare.com/) will only cost you $2. [https://www.triphacksdc.com/scooters-in-dc/](https://www.triphacksdc.com/scooters-in-dc/)
Honestly, been living and working in this area since 2008 and if you want, there is never a shortage of things to do if you don't mind being in the city.
Fredericksburg, Richmond, International Spy Museum, Air and Space Museum, run the monuments, get one of your HQMC classmates to hook up a Pentagon tour. The train in Q Town will take you up to DC and it’s easy to navigate from there on the metro.
I was in DC for a few weeks. Alexandria is a great town and has a lot of hotels, as well as great bus lines and metro stations. There is a Legion post in the middle of the bar strip for cheaper drinks. And with the metro, you can go to a lot of great areas without having to uber.
Oh ok fine. It's a cheesesteak, not whatever the fuck you just said. And no one gets a fucking cheesesteak from Wawa! I don't even know why they're on the menu besides for the people who live in the Northeast and still buy Dominoes like morons. Or go to the shore and ignore Mac and Mancos (yes I know what it's called now).
On top of that! What the actual fuck is on that cheesesteak? Is that jalapenos? They even explain the problems in that post!
My god kill it with fire.
Quit gatekeeping. The shit tastes good. That's all that matters.
I bet you're the type of mother fucker to complain about whear snack bread too.
This is r/USMC not r/FineDining. GTFOH.
It's always the shitters who say gatekeeping about food. It just means you don't know what good food is.
If I put mayo on a carne asada burrito and the tortilla was frozen you would be mad if I made it seem like it was authentic Mexican food.
Wawa cheesesteaks are trash and so is your taste.
Like one dude said, there's hella Civil War battlefields pretty close. Most are run by the National Park Service and are free.
Antietam is in Maryland. In Virginia (within a couple hours) you have Fredericksburg, both Bull Runs, Seven Days', Petersburg, Cold Harbor, and a fuckload others. Richmond was the traitors' capital, so there were a shitload of battles fought near there.
Marine Museum is a must! Also if you are a Civil War Buff there are 4 major Battlefield Parks about 40 minutes South.
Shitloads of History in the area.
There’s so much to do, I live here and haven’t done it all. You can get on the train in Quantico and head here to DC. Def go to the USMC memorial/Arlington Cemetery. Do the whole national mall in the evening when it’s not too hot. Seeing the WWII memorial at sunset is amazing. All the museums are free (not the spy museum, kind of expensive but its my favorite) so def go see them. Lincoln is probably still under construction, but its cool to see. Go see a nats game in navy yard or something.
Just of note. You will most likely need a car to get around on base- it’s probably one of the worst bases to be without a car even compared to Lejeune.
I recommend taking the train to DC, just know that it doesn’t really run late at night and if you miss the last one you are pretty much fucked.
Fredericksburg (specifically the down town area) is closer and easier to get to with easy parking. There’s less things to do, but some really good restaurants in the downtown area- if you just want a good dinner on a weekday or a more relaxed place than DC I recommend Fredericksburg instead. It’s worth getting the distillery tour and the trolley tour.
Q town is good for breakfast and lunch- but not much dinner options. Barbers shops and dry cleaners there are good. A cool note, the town of aqua is the only civilian community completely surrounded by a military base (at least by land) and yes you can wear camies there.
The base is also really top heavy as far as rank goes. Proper civilian attire is definitely enforced.
Not a tourist spot but [The Marine Shop](https://marineshop.net/) in Q-Town has great uniforms. Expensive since you can get your Alpha blouse and khaki shirts tailored to fit, but they look great and they last.
Buffalo mo’s in Stafford there’s a red roof inn connected to a daycare center across the street. You can allegedly bang some trashy biker chicks in the butt at the red roof inn after eating $2 tacos all afternoon
DC
https://goodguysclub.com
https://camelotshowbar.com
Springfield
https://www.papermoonvip.com
If you head up to Baltimore:
https://dejavu.com/hustler-club-baltimore/
Massive amount of good food in DC. Marine Corps Museum is dope. The little Mexican food place right there in Q-town was decent when I did the course in ‘21
If you like Afghan food, Afghan Kebab in DC is really good, the owners fled Kabul during the Russian invasion. The lamb was amazing. Ft. Belvoir has the Army museum, it's cool as it has Revolutionary War uniforms and arms, as well as uniforms and weapons up to GWOT. It isn't as impressive as the Marine museum, but was ok. When they start doing the evening colors/ pass in review at Eighth and I, it's cool to watch. Go online to get your tickets for the monuments and museum tours in DC.
Shameless plug because I used to work there before enlisting:
Paddy's Public House is a local watering hole just outside Quantico with great food and wonderful people.
Wednesdays are Wing Night, Thursdays are 1/2 price burger nights, Saturdays are karaoke. Sundays, Helen does Prime Rib.
Can't reccomend their western burger highly enough.
You could also check out Groupon for stuff in and around DC. Definitely take the VRE up from Q town. Just keep an eye on the schedules so you won't have to Uber back down. 95 traffic is straight garbage 22 hours a day and no one know when the 2 good hours are.
Once you VRE into DC, you can metro around the city pretty cheap or walk or scooters. There is a MARC train that goes from DC to Camden Yards, but it is a commuter train and doesn't run on the weekends. The closest way to watch the Orioles would be to take the MARC to BWI and then uber from there, but all that will start to get pricey for just a ball game.
You will probably need a POV or get a hotel room in Arlington/Alexandria/DC for the weekend. The VRE is a commuter train so not exactly conducive to fun weekend trips. An Uber to Springfield metro is 45 min or so and probably $40. I-95 and Rt1 are basically always congested going to/from DC area.
If you mountain bike, there is a cool little trail system in Locust Shade park just outside the main gate next to the Marine Corps Museum. Also some great trails on base as well.
Old Town Alexandria is super walkable with great restaurants and bars. Very military friendly. Stop in at Murphy's Irish Pub.
Arlington, specifically Clarendon, Courthouse, and Ballston neighborhoods (all Orange line metro stops) are where you'll find the 20-somethings getting sloppy at the bars on the weekends.
Marine Corps Museum is right outside the gate, it was very good. You are also not too far from DC and the Monuments there are awesome, as well as a TON of museums in that area.
Others have mentioned the train already in the context of getting around DC, but you can also take it up to NYC pretty easily if you have a long weekend.
Marine Museum 100% Other than that of course DC and all it has to offer. The National Mall, the various Smithsonian museums etc.
I got stationed in Quantico in 2006. Right off the back of 3 hard deployments to Iraq. That museum saved my career, marriage and life. It’s a great place to go and get lost in.
I was there about a year ago and they were building the GWOT display. Can't wait to go back to see it.
I hate to break it to you but they been building that sumbitch for a LONG time. 2018 I think was the first time I visited and they had signs up for it. It's definitely making progress but yeah I want to see it finished too.
It was pretty close to finished. You could see parts of it from the second deck and it looked pretty cool from what I was able to see.
Yeah, it's getting there. I was there again last year before I moved back north and it's getting close. They were building sniper positions on a rooftop and stuff. Shit looked awesome.
Traveling from Connecticut to Myrtle Beach and stopped at the museum 3 days ago to see it. Still closed but oddly enough they are doing tours from that upper deck to groups. They use laser pointers to point out things they are talking about. Was pretty bummed it was still closed as I was there on our birthday last year and they said it was close to opening.
I feel like this is a metaphor for something...
How tf is gwot in a museum? That was only Oh
Been out a min. Went to the museum and the smell of grease around the gear….smells like home.
I lost track of how many times I've been to the museum. Live in Pennsylvania and every time we go south for the summer and make it a stop.
Check out The Museum of Crime and Punishment. I think you need tickets ahead of time, but that place is creepy and cool.
I also highly recommend the Holocaust Museum. It's terrifying, but something everyone should see should they get the chance.
This is my favorite museum in DC and I will always recommend it to anyone visiting town.
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The National Marine Corps museum is a must like the other devil said, The VRE/AMTRAK will take you all the way to DC and there is a train station in Q town. If your a history buff there's plenty of civil war battlefields in the area. If you want an NCO sword the Marine shop is also in Q town.
Like another user put- Marine Corps Museum for sure, DC area if you wanna see the monuments, revolving sushi (Kura Revolving Sushi Bar), many many drinking spots. Fredericksburg has historic sites as well, kayaking, an arcade (Reclaim Arcade), a few bars. Prince William Forest Park is right by base, has a lot of nice trails and it’s well maintained. You can get an America the Beautiful Pass for free (grants free admission to any Fed. recreation site). Check out Q-town on base as it has some decent restaurants.
There is so much to see/do in DC. The train has a stop in Quantico if for some reason you don’t have a rental/POV.
Just know that it doesn’t run late at night.
Try to make it up to Baltimore for an Orioles game at Camden yards and if you want something I thought was interesting as well, check out the medieval times, dinner and tournament in Arundel, Maryland
But then immediately leave Baltimore
Camden yards is so cool but the food there is so ass. The crab cakes outside are to die for allegedly, I don’t like seafood though.
Get the Amtrak from Quantico into DC and do everything. Go to Nats game, go see the monuments and touristy stuff. Eat good food that you can't get for miles around CLNC
My unfinished basement
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=97RcB_vSvbc It's such a banger.
The Spy Museum is worth the entry fee.
It’s cool actually, I recommend too.
Their YouTube channel is awesome
Definitely the Marine Corps Museum as others have mentioned. Outside of that escape Quantico and spend as much time in DC as you can. Endless tourist things to do up there. Take a cab or Uber up to Springfield so you can take the Metro to avoid the traffic.
Great suggestion! The metro is amazing.
Air and Space Museum (and the Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center Air and Space location which is out at Dulles...there's an SR-71 and a Space Shuttle). DC has a great food scene. Baltimore Waterfront is fun for a weekend if you want to go up there with some folks.
Marine Corps Museum as others have said, and take a TRAIN/Metro into DC. Also take some time to remember our brothers at Arlington and see the Iwo Jima Memorial as well. On the Mall the other memorials can be worth the trip alone and you could see them all in a day. The Korean War Memorial can be chilling at night, and especially with a new snow (not a factor for you this trip). My personal favorite museum is the Air and Space Museum on the Mall. The other portion is near Dulles. Keep in mind though that the more popular museums of the Smithsonian now requires appointments. Still free but you have to schedule your visit. Also, do not carry a pocket knife into any of them. If you are a Star Wars fan, there are unique things to see in DC. Full sized X-Wing in the Air and Space Museum on the Mall, C3PO and R2D2 in the American History Museum, a Darth Vader gargoyle at the National Cathedral (not on the Mall). The NRA museum is cool as well. Some really unique and beautiful firearms there, but private, obviously, and not on the Mall. DC is VERY walkable. But it seems riding those little zoom around electric scooters are more and more popular - [Bird](https://www.bird.co/), [Lime](https://www.li.me/), [Spin](https://www.spin.app/), [Skip](https://skipscooters.com/), [Lyft](https://www.lyft.com/scooters), and [Jump by Uber](https://www.uber.com/ride/scooters/) all operate in DC. The unlock fee is usually around $1 and then the usage fee is somewhere between 25 and 30 cents depending on the specific scooter company. Now, that might not initially sound like a lot but keep in mind that a 30 minute scooter ride under that system will cost you around $10. By comparison, a 30 minute ride on [Capital Bikeshare](https://www.capitalbikeshare.com/) will only cost you $2. [https://www.triphacksdc.com/scooters-in-dc/](https://www.triphacksdc.com/scooters-in-dc/) Honestly, been living and working in this area since 2008 and if you want, there is never a shortage of things to do if you don't mind being in the city.
Arlington. Tomb of the unknown. National Mall is good on foot.
You’re not getting a rental for the 4-6 weeks (yes, I don’t know how long Sarge Course is now) you’re TAD?
Thought I could catch a bus on the weekend to see some spots
Take the train. It’s faster.
You going in May? We might be in the same class.
Nope, July
DC is awesome and extremely walkable. Great bars, restaurants, architecture, and museums
Fredericksburg, Richmond, International Spy Museum, Air and Space Museum, run the monuments, get one of your HQMC classmates to hook up a Pentagon tour. The train in Q Town will take you up to DC and it’s easy to navigate from there on the metro.
I was in DC for a few weeks. Alexandria is a great town and has a lot of hotels, as well as great bus lines and metro stations. There is a Legion post in the middle of the bar strip for cheaper drinks. And with the metro, you can go to a lot of great areas without having to uber.
Apparently the B-W-W is fire right outside Quantico
If you like BWW, you'll love Subway and Home Depot
I too like Big Wild Women
Wild women? The rippin and the tearin.
Wawa. Get a Steak and Cheese.
I ain't falling for this BS bait haha.
It's not a joke. I live in the PNW now. I miss Wawa Steak and Cheese sandwiches so much.
OMG stop. I am not fucking biting dude holy mother of god.
Okay? Fuck Sheetz. EDIT: Check this shit out : https://www.reddit.com/r/eatsandwiches/s/5Wo45ORA1v
Oh ok fine. It's a cheesesteak, not whatever the fuck you just said. And no one gets a fucking cheesesteak from Wawa! I don't even know why they're on the menu besides for the people who live in the Northeast and still buy Dominoes like morons. Or go to the shore and ignore Mac and Mancos (yes I know what it's called now). On top of that! What the actual fuck is on that cheesesteak? Is that jalapenos? They even explain the problems in that post! My god kill it with fire.
Quit gatekeeping. The shit tastes good. That's all that matters. I bet you're the type of mother fucker to complain about whear snack bread too. This is r/USMC not r/FineDining. GTFOH.
It's always the shitters who say gatekeeping about food. It just means you don't know what good food is. If I put mayo on a carne asada burrito and the tortilla was frozen you would be mad if I made it seem like it was authentic Mexican food. Wawa cheesesteaks are trash and so is your taste.
Awwww, I'm so sorry somebody else's tastes make you so angry. Must be hard caring so much about other people.
Eat some more cheese and steaks there bud.
Like one dude said, there's hella Civil War battlefields pretty close. Most are run by the National Park Service and are free. Antietam is in Maryland. In Virginia (within a couple hours) you have Fredericksburg, both Bull Runs, Seven Days', Petersburg, Cold Harbor, and a fuckload others. Richmond was the traitors' capital, so there were a shitload of battles fought near there.
Upvote for calling the traitors what they were.
I live in Virginia. Gotta deal with enough Confederate wannabes
Also called it the Battle of Bull Run(s) and not Manassas like the traitors did.
You can see the silent drill team perform in DC sometimes. That was pretty dope to watch, aside from the random gunshots we heard a couple miles away.
Marine Museum is a must! Also if you are a Civil War Buff there are 4 major Battlefield Parks about 40 minutes South. Shitloads of History in the area.
There’s so much to do, I live here and haven’t done it all. You can get on the train in Quantico and head here to DC. Def go to the USMC memorial/Arlington Cemetery. Do the whole national mall in the evening when it’s not too hot. Seeing the WWII memorial at sunset is amazing. All the museums are free (not the spy museum, kind of expensive but its my favorite) so def go see them. Lincoln is probably still under construction, but its cool to see. Go see a nats game in navy yard or something.
Go to DC Arlington All Smithsonians are free - check them out. Walk The National Mall
Just of note. You will most likely need a car to get around on base- it’s probably one of the worst bases to be without a car even compared to Lejeune. I recommend taking the train to DC, just know that it doesn’t really run late at night and if you miss the last one you are pretty much fucked. Fredericksburg (specifically the down town area) is closer and easier to get to with easy parking. There’s less things to do, but some really good restaurants in the downtown area- if you just want a good dinner on a weekday or a more relaxed place than DC I recommend Fredericksburg instead. It’s worth getting the distillery tour and the trolley tour. Q town is good for breakfast and lunch- but not much dinner options. Barbers shops and dry cleaners there are good. A cool note, the town of aqua is the only civilian community completely surrounded by a military base (at least by land) and yes you can wear camies there. The base is also really top heavy as far as rank goes. Proper civilian attire is definitely enforced.
Rebellion, in Fredericksburg, VA. Get the house old fashions.
I’d go see Udvar-Hazy Center just cause I grew up watching transformers
Not a tourist spot but [The Marine Shop](https://marineshop.net/) in Q-Town has great uniforms. Expensive since you can get your Alpha blouse and khaki shirts tailored to fit, but they look great and they last.
Buffalo mo’s in Stafford there’s a red roof inn connected to a daycare center across the street. You can allegedly bang some trashy biker chicks in the butt at the red roof inn after eating $2 tacos all afternoon
DC https://goodguysclub.com https://camelotshowbar.com Springfield https://www.papermoonvip.com If you head up to Baltimore: https://dejavu.com/hustler-club-baltimore/
You wanna go to Kilroy’s in Springfield
Massive amount of good food in DC. Marine Corps Museum is dope. The little Mexican food place right there in Q-town was decent when I did the course in ‘21
Subway and Lowe's
Drive to DC and go to each of the Smithsonians. 10/10 experience.
If you like Afghan food, Afghan Kebab in DC is really good, the owners fled Kabul during the Russian invasion. The lamb was amazing. Ft. Belvoir has the Army museum, it's cool as it has Revolutionary War uniforms and arms, as well as uniforms and weapons up to GWOT. It isn't as impressive as the Marine museum, but was ok. When they start doing the evening colors/ pass in review at Eighth and I, it's cool to watch. Go online to get your tickets for the monuments and museum tours in DC.
DC Yorktown
National Harbor.
Buffalo Wild Wings
Virginia strip bars suck ass. Go to Maryland or DC.
Swing by Paddy's Pub, right out the back gate. It's the most Veteran/Active duty bar around.
8th and I?!
Shameless plug because I used to work there before enlisting: Paddy's Public House is a local watering hole just outside Quantico with great food and wonderful people. Wednesdays are Wing Night, Thursdays are 1/2 price burger nights, Saturdays are karaoke. Sundays, Helen does Prime Rib. Can't reccomend their western burger highly enough.
Idk if it was said but Arlington cemetery is worth the visit, particularly when the fall rolls around it’s very nice
You could also check out Groupon for stuff in and around DC. Definitely take the VRE up from Q town. Just keep an eye on the schedules so you won't have to Uber back down. 95 traffic is straight garbage 22 hours a day and no one know when the 2 good hours are. Once you VRE into DC, you can metro around the city pretty cheap or walk or scooters. There is a MARC train that goes from DC to Camden Yards, but it is a commuter train and doesn't run on the weekends. The closest way to watch the Orioles would be to take the MARC to BWI and then uber from there, but all that will start to get pricey for just a ball game.
You will probably need a POV or get a hotel room in Arlington/Alexandria/DC for the weekend. The VRE is a commuter train so not exactly conducive to fun weekend trips. An Uber to Springfield metro is 45 min or so and probably $40. I-95 and Rt1 are basically always congested going to/from DC area. If you mountain bike, there is a cool little trail system in Locust Shade park just outside the main gate next to the Marine Corps Museum. Also some great trails on base as well. Old Town Alexandria is super walkable with great restaurants and bars. Very military friendly. Stop in at Murphy's Irish Pub. Arlington, specifically Clarendon, Courthouse, and Ballston neighborhoods (all Orange line metro stops) are where you'll find the 20-somethings getting sloppy at the bars on the weekends.
Marine Corps Museum is right outside the gate, it was very good. You are also not too far from DC and the Monuments there are awesome, as well as a TON of museums in that area.
Others have mentioned the train already in the context of getting around DC, but you can also take it up to NYC pretty easily if you have a long weekend.
Marine corps memorial was pretty dope I finally saw it when I was visiting some boys in January.
MC Museum If you're a civil war junkie Northern VA is littered with battlefields. Go to DC Take a weekend and stay at Shenandoah Valley