page_title: Marine Corps Base Quantico
section_title: Tenant activities
hierarchical_section_title: Marine Corps Base Quantico / Tenant activities
context_page_description: Marine Corps Base Quantico is a United States Marine Corps installation located near Triangle, Virginia, covering nearly 55,148 acres of southern Prince William County, Virginia, northern Stafford County, and southeastern Fauquier County. Used primarily for training purposes, MCB Quantico is known as the "Crossroads of the Marine Corps".
  Quantico Station is a census-designated place in Prince William and Stafford counties in the U.S. state of Virginia, used by the Census Bureau to describe base housing. The population was 4,452 at the 2010 census.
  The U.S. Marine Corps' Combat Development Command, which develops strategies for U.S. Marine combat and makes up most of the community of over 12,000 military and civilian personnel, is based here. It has a budget of around $300 million and is the home of the Marine Corps Officer Candidates School. The Marine Corps Research Center at Quantico pursues equipment research and development, especially telecommunications, for the Marine Corps. The Marine Corps Brig, a military prison, was also located at Quantico, until its closure on 31 December 2011 and its subsequent demolition.
context_section_description: The base is the home of major training institutions for both the Marine Corps and federal law enforcement agencies, including:
  Defense Intelligence Agency
  Defense Counterintelligence and Security Agency (Headquarters)
  Drug Enforcement Administration training academy
  FBI Academy, the principal research and training facility of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
  FBI Hostage Rescue Team (HRT)
  FBI Laboratory
  Marine Raider Museum
  Naval Criminal Investigative Service Headquarters, Army Criminal Investigation Division Headquarters, Air Force Office of Special Investigations Headquarters
  A replica of the United States Marine Corps War Memorial, depicting the 2nd U.S. flag-raising on Iwo Jima, stands at the entrance to the base. (The original memorial stands at the north end of Arlington National Cemetery.)
  Marine Corps Base Quantico and the Potomac River surround the town of Quantico. Access to the town is possible only through the base, the Amtrak train station, or from the river.
caption: Marine Corps Memorial at the front gate of MCB Quantico
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