Chief of Staff retires after forty years 

Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego and Western Recruiting Region Chief of Staff Col. Carl F. Huenefeld, stands before the depot and WRR’s commanding general, Maj. Gen. Ronald L. Bailey, and depot sergeant major, Sgt. Maj. Sylvester D. Daniels, during his formal retirement ceremony. The ceremony was held on the depot’s Shepherd Memorial Field March 25. Huenefeld has honorably served in the Marine Corps since June 1971 and will officially retire July 31.