page_title: Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Marine motor detachment, New River, N.C. Palmer, Alfred T.,, photographer. 1942 May 1 transparency&#160;: color. Notes: Title from FSA or OWI agency caption. Transfer from U.S. Office of War Information, 1944. https://www.flickr.com/photos/library_of_congress/2179841446/in/set-72157603671370361/
context_page_description: Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune is a 246-square-mile United States military training facility in Jacksonville, North Carolina. The base's 14 miles of beaches make it a major area for amphibious assault training, and its location between two deep-water ports allows for fast deployments.
  The main base is supplemented by six satellite facilities: Marine Corps Air Station New River, Camp Geiger, Stone Bay, Courthouse Bay, Camp Johnson, and the latest addition to the facility, the Greater Sandy Run Training Area. The Marine Corps port facility at Radio Island, is located between Beaufort and Morehead City, next to Duke Marine Lab and adjacent to the NC State Port in Morehead City NC. It is military property, but is only manned during military port operations.
context_section_description: In April 1941, construction was approved on an 11,000-acre (45 km²) tract in Onslow County, North Carolina. On May 1 of that year, Lt. Col. William P. T. Hill began construction on Marine Barracks New River. The first base headquarters was in a summer cottage on Montford Point, and then moved to Hadnot Point in 1942. Later that year it was renamed in honor of the 13th Commandant of the Marine Corps, John A. Lejeune.
  One of the satellite facilities of Camp Lejeune served for a while as a third boot camp for the Marines, in addition to Parris Island and San Diego. That facility, Montford Point, was established after Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 8802. Between 1942 and 1949, a brief era of segregated training for black Marines, the camp at Montford Point trained 20,000 African-Americans. After the military was ordered to fully integrate, Montford Point was renamed Camp Gilbert H. Johnson and became the home of the Marine Corps Combat Service Support Schools.
  MCB Camp Lejeune can help to prepare warfighters for combat and humanitarian missions abroad. Camp Lejeune takes advantage of 156,000 acres, 11 miles of beach capable of supporting amphibious operations, 32 gun positions, 48 tactical landing zones, three state-of-the-art training facilities for Military Operations in Urban Terrain and 80 live fire ranges to include the Greater Sandy Run Training Area.  Military forces from around the world come to Camp Lejeune on a regular basis for bilateral and NATO-sponsored exercises.
  Camp Lejeune was featured in the hit CW network drama One Tree Hill in late 2006.
caption: Marine motor detachment, New River Barracks, 1942
exif: {"Image SubfileType": "Full-resolution Image", "Image ImageWidth": "9114", "Image ImageLength": "7417", "Image BitsPerSample": "[8, 8, 8]", "Image Compression": "Uncompressed", "Image PhotometricInterpretation": "2", "Image DocumentName": "hidemand/1a35184u.tif", "Image StripOffsets": "8", "Image SamplesPerPixel": "3", "Image RowsPerStrip": "7417", "Image StripByteCounts": "202795614", "Image XResolution": "1800", "Image YResolution": "1800", "Image PlanarConfiguration": "1", "Image ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Image DateTime": "2004:02:27 09:18:53", "Image Artist": "Library of Congress", "Image ExifOffset": "2398", "Image XPAuthor": "Library of Congress", "Image Padding": "[]", "EXIF Padding": "[]"}