Pendleton's smallest camp sees big changes

With billions being poured into improvements across the base, plans to completely level and rebuild Pendleton’s most northern camp emerge.

More than $220 million is the anticipated amount needed to rebuild the 40 acres that make Camp Talega in the coming years. Expected construction will provide the area with its own mess hall, armory and barracks.

“It’s almost as if we are wiping a Monopoly board clean of all the hotels and houses,” said Cmdr. Rafael A. Lim, public works officer, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton. “We are literally wiping the camp clean and working from a blank slate.”

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