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Marine Corps says $3.6B for storm repairs at Camp Lejeune
AP via CBS17 ^ | 12/15/18 | AP

Posted on 12/14/2018 8:40:27 AM PST by Rebelbase

WASHINGTON (AP) — When Marines from Camp Lejeune, N.C., were preparing for their upcoming deployment to the Middle East, they faced an unusual challenge: the beach they needed to train on had been washed away by Hurricane Florence.

Using bulldozers and other equipment, they moved enough sand to rebuild a portion of Onslow Beach so Marines could practice moving on and off landing craft and get certified for their deployment. But almost immediately afterward, the ocean swept away the sand.

Marine leaders are saying it will cost around $3.6 billion to repair the extensive damage to Camp Lejeune caused by the September hurricane that destroyed hundreds of buildings and facilities on the major East Coast base and spawned massive flooding and coastal erosion. That damage, they said, has made it harder to train forces for overseas deployments.

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TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; US: North Carolina
KEYWORDS: camplejeune; defensespending; fraud; govtabuse; hurricaneflorence; spebding; spending; trump; usmc
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"But he said it's only a temporary solution. "We pushed a lot of sand around, and a lot of that sand went back into the ocean. So we're only going to be able to repeat that a couple times, if that, before we just don't have the sand available to create that kind of capability," said Brilakis, commander of U.S. Marine Corps Forces Command.

Marines conduct exercises twice a year in order to get certified prior to deployment. Part of that training involved bringing ships -- such as landing craft -- down to Lejeune from Norfolk, so that troops can rehearse combat landings and other mission drills. The beach must be wide enough to accommodate the ships, but the storm washed too much of it away."

There is a lot of the world where there are no sand beaches. How do the Marines handle that?

1 posted on 12/14/2018 8:40:27 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

I’m skeptical of 3.6 billion in damage at Camp Lejune from Hurricane Florence.


2 posted on 12/14/2018 8:41:19 AM PST by Rebelbase
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To: Rebelbase

Love the Corps, but 3.6BN to fix a beach? Nuts!


3 posted on 12/14/2018 8:41:38 AM PST by JewishRighter
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Move them to the border. Plenty of sand to practice on and second benefit is to scare Mexico into submission. They could practice landing in that lake.


4 posted on 12/14/2018 8:44:26 AM PST by oldasrocks
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To: Rebelbase

Use the money to build a base and wall on the border with Mexico.


5 posted on 12/14/2018 8:44:53 AM PST by plain talk
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To: Rebelbase

I am curious as to when is the last time Marines actually made a beach landing.


6 posted on 12/14/2018 9:01:01 AM PST by NEMDF
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To: JewishRighter

3.6 million, maybe.


7 posted on 12/14/2018 9:05:14 AM PST by The_Media_never_lie ("The MSM is the enemy of the American people"...Democrat Pat Caddell)
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To: NEMDF

Opposed or unopposed?


8 posted on 12/14/2018 9:07:14 AM PST by Reily
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To: Rebelbase

Want to see a lemon face or faces? This effort will inevitably involve the Army Corps of Engineers. Gee, with the time frame required to do these kind of things, they might still be at it for the next Army-Navy Game!

Just having fun, still feeling warm over USMA’s win in a very well fought game against a USNA team that fought for every inch!! Congrats to all the participants and thanks for the best football game of the YEAR!


9 posted on 12/14/2018 9:07:37 AM PST by SES1066 (Happiness is a depressed Washington, DC housing market!)
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To: Rebelbase

Baja would be good but the amphibious ships are already split between the two coasts and I doubt they’d want to change that so something on the East Coast is needed.


10 posted on 12/14/2018 9:07:45 AM PST by Rashputin (Jesus Christ doesn't evacuate His troops, He leads them to victory !!)
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To: Rebelbase

Camp Pendleton has plenty of beach last I checked.


11 posted on 12/14/2018 9:09:13 AM PST by lodi90
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To: NEMDF

Desert Storm.


12 posted on 12/14/2018 9:10:27 AM PST by mad_as_he$$
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To: Rashputin

They can have some of our Delaware beaches. All the summer traffic needs to be thinned out,anyway.


13 posted on 12/14/2018 9:12:59 AM PST by Hartlyboy
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To: Rebelbase

Trees down, landscaping bent - that was pretty much what I saw in the video.

Stayed out at Onslow Beach and used the 2nd Recon Battalions facilities years and years back.

It’s a sand beach just like the rest of the Carolina beaches. Get that dregger critter, drop the intake a mile or so offshore and shoot a bunch of that sand back up on the beach,


14 posted on 12/14/2018 9:13:52 AM PST by PeteB570 ( Islam is the sea in which the Terrorist Shark swims. The deeper the sea the larger the shark.)
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To: JewishRighter

Could that buy all of DETROIT ??


15 posted on 12/14/2018 9:21:46 AM PST by litehaus (A memory toooo long.............)
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border wall


16 posted on 12/14/2018 9:23:09 AM PST by morphing libertarian (Use Comey's Report; Indict Hillary now. --- Proud Smelly Walmart Deplorable)
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To: The_Media_never_lie

Depends on how many airplanes in the repair hangars got more damage.


17 posted on 12/14/2018 9:33:26 AM PST by ridesthemiles
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To: Rebelbase

The guy who operates the bull dozer gets $1 billion. Sounds logical.


18 posted on 12/14/2018 9:42:45 AM PST by conservative98
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barge—but obviously limited rate of transfer from Marine Prepositioned Ships (if the Obammy defense collapse did not eliminate the program)

Otherwise just have to locate the nearest port that can handle shipping.


19 posted on 12/14/2018 10:10:14 AM PST by whistleduck ("....the calm confidence of a Christian with 4 aces".....S.)
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How do the Marines handle that?

Really?

They don't land there!

20 posted on 12/14/2018 10:16:10 AM PST by Elsie (Heck is where people, who don't believe in Gosh, think they are not going...)
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