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Better barracks under construction at Lejeune
CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C. ― Today, hard-hatted workmen are busy hammering nails, and the rumble of heavy construction equipment shakes the earth.
But come August, [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]when the first members of 8th Marines move into the Wallace Creek regimental complex here,
construction will be complete and Marines will experience a new side of barracks life.
Absent are the motel-style exterior doorways, low ceilings, steel beds, empty lounges and cramped laundry rooms that characterize
Camp Lejeune’s existing, decades-old barracks. Instead, Marines will find a hotel-like environment with swipe-lock doors, 12-foot ceilings,
wooden furniture, warm colors,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych], interior corridors, lounges with area rugs, g
“We don’t want these infantrymen to come home from the field and have to drag all their equipment up several flights of stairs,”
said Nina McBroom, director of Lejeune’s Bachelor Housing Division, who is overseeing construction at Wallace Creek and the renovation of 24
bachelor enlisted quarters in various stages of completion.
There are more than 16,000 Marines and sailors currently billeted in BEQs across the base, with bed space for a total of 24,000. And leadership
at Lejeune, considered a “deficit location” due to a shortage of available space, is working to meet the Corps’ 2-by-0 standard for barracks
housing for lance corporals and below ― meaning [link widoczny dla zalogowanych]
In 2009, then-Assistant Commandant Gen. Jim Amos established a Bachelor Enlisted Quarters Facilities Board to evaluate and recommend new design
specifications for barracks construction and renovation projects, McBroom said. The goal was to make Marines’ quality of life feel more like home.
The result is a “best of breed” list of features for military construction that can be applied anywhere across the Corps.
“Marines have expressed that they don’t want to come home from the field or a deployment and see desert sand and olive green colors,”
McBroom said. “They said they wanted places that don’t look like where they work.”
BIG BEDROOMS, SOFT COLORS
After this phase of construction is complete, Wallace Creek is scheduled to add another set of barracks. When that facility opens in two years,
Wallace Creek will be a 570,000-square-foot, multibuilding complex comprising headquarters buildings, a motor pool, chow hall, supply facility,
armory and barracks for 3,000 plus Marines and sailors.
The shades of paint on the walls and the choice of patterns on the industrial-grade flooring give Wallace Creek a designer feel ―
the corridors are a little wider, the lighting tones a little softer.
Sleeping areas in the bedrooms are 180 square feet, which is larger than an entire room at one of the older barracks buildings. Floors are vinyl
planks that look like wood, and there are two lockable walk-in closets. The pattern on the terrazzo floors in the common areas ― all no-buff
materials ― are designed to look a little like the mud tracks Marines might drag in.
Common areas are larger than in the old barracks, and the duty desk is no longer a recessed cubby at the entrance. It is more reception-like,
protruding out from the wall to give the Marine on duty better peripheral views,[link widoczny dla zalogowanych] including into the wood-and-glass-walled lounge, and gaming
room adjacent to a glass-walled lau
Before they opt to ride the elevator, Marines will be able to clean their muddy gear outdoors at a concrete wash station equipped with dozens
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