{"id":138512,"date":"2019-03-31T16:21:04","date_gmt":"2019-03-31T22:21:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/?p=138512"},"modified":"2019-03-31T16:21:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-31T22:21:04","slug":"puerto-rico-isnt-the-only-place-being-neglected-post-hurricane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2019\/03\/31\/puerto-rico-isnt-the-only-place-being-neglected-post-hurricane.html","title":{"rendered":"Puerto Rico isn’t the only place being neglected post-hurricane"},"content":{"rendered":"

Camp Lejeune in North Carolina, home of a third of the Marine Corps’ combat power, is still unrepaired after Hurricane Florence hit last year. And the next hurricane season is only months away.<\/p>\n

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Hurricane damage at Camp Lejeune<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The Marines say they need $3.6 billion to repair the damage to more than 900 buildings at Camp Lejeune, Marine Corps Air Station New River, and Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point caused by the storm and catastrophic flooding in its aftermath. And while they have torn down soggy, moldy walls, put tarps on roofs and moved Marines into trailers, so far they have not received a penny from the federal government to fix the damage.<\/p>\n

Now the Marine Corps’ top officer is warning that readiness at Camp Lejeune \u2014 home to one third of the Corps’ total combat power \u2014 is degraded and “will continue to degrade given current conditions.” In a recent memo to Navy Secretary Richard Spencer, Commandant Gen. Robert Neller cited, among other “negative factors,” the diversion of resources to the border, where the Trump administration has sent active-duty troops to patrol and plans to use military funding to pay for a wall<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Well, as long as the money is going to something important<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Do you want to know more?<\/em>\u00a0Camp Lejeune is still a mess 6 months after Hurricane Florence. Where’s the money for repairs?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Maybe the Commander-in-Chief can ship the Marines at Camp Lejeune some paper towels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":138513,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[748,349,376,1071],"tags":[1818],"class_list":["post-138512","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-weather-and-climate-change","category-military","category-taxing-spending","category-trump","tag-usmc"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/03\/camp-lejeune-hurricane-damage.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":130960,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2016\/06\/29\/the-manly-men-of-the-marines-feel-unmanned.html","url_meta":{"origin":138512,"position":0},"title":"The Manly Men of the Marines Feel Unmanned!","author":"***Dave","date":"Wed 29-Jun-16 6:47pm","format":false,"excerpt":"Apparently some US Marines (present and past) have their khakis in a wad by the \"pussification\" of their branch of the service by Political Correctness Gone Mad, as the Marine Corps (which now technically allows both men and women to serve in all roles) pursues more gender-neutral language for job\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "~PlusPosts"","block_context":{"text":"~PlusPosts","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/blogging\/plusposts"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":8676,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2005\/09\/08\/the_pork_corps.html","url_meta":{"origin":138512,"position":1},"title":"The Pork Corps","author":"***Dave","date":"Thu 8-Sep-05 6:48pm","format":false,"excerpt":"The Army Corps of Engineers is a curious beast. 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