New barracks ‘just like home’

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The 170-room barracks is the newest home for infantrymen with 1st Marine Regiment at Camp Pendleton's Camp Horno, Calif. Rooms in the BEQ, the first of 29 new barracks planned at the base, features private baths, ceiling fans, mini-refrigerators and microwaves, wooden furnishings and extra storage.


New barracks ‘just like home’
By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer
Posted : Sunday May 25, 2008 10:04:01 EDT

CAMP PENDLETON, Calif. — Life for the infantrymen here is a routine of days spent in the field and a return to the barracks, to clean away the dirt and grime of training and to rest with a few days of liberty.

For the men of 1st Marine Regiment in Camp Horno, home is a nondescript barracks built when their parents were born. It’s not exactly home sweet home. But that’s about to change.

Officials at Camp Pendleton marked the grand opening May 13 of the newest addition to the landscape: a four-story, 170-room, bachelor enlisted quarters at Horno for up to 340 single junior Marines and noncommissioned officers.

The red-roofed building rises above the trees from a former football field and makes a notable presence at Horno. The $21.4 million barracks — built with energy and water efficiency in mind — was completed two months early and is the first of 29 new BEQs coming to the base in the next two years, in what’s called the “Best of Breed” design.

While a handful of barracks have been built here in recent years, the surge of new buildings at the base and at others around the Corps are designed with the single Marine in mind.


Rest of article at: http://www.marinecorpstimes.com/news/2008/05/marine_CPbarracks_052408w/



uhc comment: A "surge of new buildings"????? These guys kill me with the language. :rofl: