Marine Corps Recruit Depot - Yearbook (San Diego, CA)

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DEPOT PANORAMA. The Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, California, as seen from the air. The large structure in the foreground is the Administration Building; the Quonsct huts on the right are recruit barracks. Center is the gigantic parade ground. The Depot's 482 acres comprise one of the show places of the Marine Corps.

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MAJOR GENERAL BRUNO A. HOCHMUTH COMMANDING GENERAL, MARINE CORPS RECRUIT DEPOT MAJOR GENERAL BRUNO A. HOCHMUTH, a combat veteran, with over 28 years’ service, became Commanding General of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, on 15 November 1963. Born in Houston, Texas, he was graduated from Texas A M College, and was commissioned a Marine second lieutenant in July 1935. The general joined the Sixth Marines in San Diego, December 1936, and in August the following year sailed for Shanghai, China. He served briefly with the Sixth Marines, then joined the famed Fourth China’’ Marines for a period of over two years. Returning to the United States in September 1940, he was attached to the 7th Defense Battalion. The following February he embarked with the battalion for American and British Samoa. During World War II he saw action in the campaigns in Saipan and Tinian as Assistant Operations Officer with the 3rd Amphibious Corps. Later he served as Commanding Officer of the 3rd Battalion, Fourth Marines, 6th Marine Division during some of the most bitter fighting in the Okinawa campaign. As Executive Officer of the Fourth Marines, General Hochmuth made the initial landing on Japan, August 29, 1945, following the end of World War II. In 1957 he served as Chief of Staff at the Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego, and in 1959, while still serving there, was promoted to Brigadier General. Briefly thereafter the General served as Commanding General of the Marine Corps Recruit Depot and later as Commanding General of the Recruit Training Command. Prior to his assumption of the current command of the San Diego Marine Corps Recruit Depot, Major General Hochmuth served as Deputy Chief of Staff (Research and Development) at Headquarters Marine Corps in Washington, D. C.