Pendleton makes room to grow

In January 2007, former President George W. Bush announced an initiative, referred to as Grow the Force, to increase the strength in the Marine Corps to 202,000 personnel by 2011.

To meet the demands of the president and the commandant of the Marine Corps, Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton’s Public Works Department, along with its resident officer in charge of construction, stepped up to the challenge by implementing an aggressive military construction program, projected to be done in 2012.

More than $3 billion in construction is either underway or planned through 2012, to include training and...