Photo By Cpl. Thomas Mudd | Rosalinda Trevino has been working for Marine Corps Community Services for 40 years...... read more read more
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MARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER TWENTYNINE PALMS, Calif. - Purchasing agent, Marine Corps Community Services
Hometown: San Antonio, Texas
Rosalinda Trevino has been working for Marine Corps Community Services for 40 years and is retiring on Dec. 26, 2015. She has worked in different positions within MCCS in several locations such as Marine Corps Recruit Depot, San Diego; Washington D.C.; Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan and the Combat Center.
>I met my husband in junior high and we got married in high school. We were taking night school and summer school and he was also working full time.
>After high school he joined the Marine Corps and I stayed in San Antonio. While he was gone I worked and after all of his training he was shipped out to Okinawa, Japan. He was going to go to Vietnam but they modified his orders and he stayed in Okinawa, which was a blessing.
>After Okinawa he got stationed at Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego. That was our first tour together and we were there for six years.
>When he was away, I would stay with the children. I took care of them while going to school and working.
>I started working for Marine Corps Community Services in 1974. I was a ticket booth clerk for the base theater at MCRD.
>I enjoyed San Diego. We were young and it was nice there. We had a good time even though he did not have much rank at that time so there was a little struggle, but we made it through just fine.
>Some of my most memorable times working at San Diego were the times that the recruits would come to the theater. They would be on liberty and they would get brought to the theater by the hundreds and be able to enjoy one day off from training.
>After that, we were moved to Washington D.C. I worked at the Henderson Hall Exchange. I started as a clerk and moved up to the supervisor of the military clothing section. At the time the embassy guard training school was there so I would sell a lot of equipment to the people training for embassy duty.
>I had to learn all the ribbons and ranks for the Marine Corps and the Navy. My area was down in the basement so I had no windows but it was nice and I enjoyed working there.
>We went to Iwakuni, Japan next. They did not have any openings in the higher positions so I was a clerk once again. I worked my way up to becoming a buyer and we would purchase things from Korea and the states to make sure the people living there had what they needed.
>That was a difficult position. I had several departments under me. At that time there was not a main MCCS point that shipped out everything the different places needed like now. I had to make sure everything we needed was shipped out to us.
>We had to get things that were different than other exchanges at the time. We needed to get clothes and shoes for all the families living there. When school started, we needed to get supplies for the children and making sure the shelves were stocked.
>We came to Twentynine Palms after Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni. When I first came here it was a shock. This place grows on you though. I don’t see myself living anywhere else now.
>Here I started as a jewelry sales clerk. From there I moved to customer services, to accounting to becoming the purchasing agent here.
>I have been here since 1983. Things have changed significantly throughout my time here. The town was so small when I got here, now it has grown so much. The systems we use are always being innovated and becoming better every year.
>It is nice to be able to give back to the people who sacrifice to protect us. Even now as a purchasing agent we work with the Family Readiness Officers by helping them purchase things for the Marines. It is always military first.
>The reason I enjoyed working at MCCS was because I had the opportunity to serve the Marines and sailors and that has been the best part of all of my years working.
| Date Taken: | 12.15.2015 |
| Date Posted: | 12.16.2015 18:35 |
| Story ID: | 184722 |
| Location: | MARINE CORPS AIR GROUND COMBAT CENTER TWENTYNINE PALMS, CA, US |
| Hometown: | SAN ANTONIO, TX, US |
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