MCCS, Camp Lejeune

There are 6 Recreations Centers to serve you.

Click the names below for information about each one.

• Central Area Recreation Center

• Camp Geiger Recreation Center

• The Sand Bar Recreation Center (Courthouse Bay)

• Camp Johnson Recreation Center

• French Creek Recreation Center

• Maggie's Drawers Recreation Center (Stone Bay)
  

Calendar of Events

• SMP and Recreation Centers Monthly Calendar (except Camp Geiger)

• SMP and Camp Geiger Recreation Center Monthly Calendar

Benjamin Franklin, in his article
"The Morals of Chess" (1750), wrote:

"The Game of Chess is not merely an idle amusement; several very valuable qualities of the mind, useful in the course of human life, are to be acquired and strengthened by it, so as to become habits ready on all occasions; for life is a kind of Chess, in which we have often points to gain, and competitors or adversaries to contend with, and in which there is a vast variety of good and ill events, that are, in some degree, the effect of prudence, or the want of it. By playing at Chess then, we may learn:
I. Foresight, which looks a little into futurity, and considers the consequences that may attend an action [...] II. Circumspection, which surveys the whole Chess-board, or scene of action: - the relation of the several Pieces, and their situations [...] III. Caution, not to make our moves too hastily [...]"

• Check out our Chess webpage
  
  

Camp Lejeune Single Marine Program offers club nights at each of the recreation centers where you can play just as an idle amusement or strive toward strengthening the qualities mentioned above in yourself.

French Creek Recreation Center
2nd and 4th Tuesdays at 1800

Central Area Recreation Center
2nd and 4th Mondays at 1800

Camp Johnson Recreation Center
1st and 3rd Fridays at 1800

Courthouse Bay Recreation Center
1st and 3rd Wednesdays at 1800

Camp Geiger Recreation Center
2nd and 4th Sundays at 1200

Stone Bay Recreation Center
1st and 3rd Wednesdays at 1800

http://www.usmc-mccs.org/chess