Coordinates	41°52′55″N87°37′40″N
Name	Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune
Location	Onslow County, near Jacksonville, North Carolina 34°35'34.08"N 77°20'32.60"W
Type	Military base
Built	1941
Used	1941–present
Controlledby	USMC
Garrison	II Marine Expeditionary ForceMarine Special Operations Command
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Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune ( ) is a United States military training facility in North Carolina. The base's of beaches make it a major area for amphibious assault training, and its location between two deep-water ports (Wilmington and Morehead City) allows for fast deployments.

The main base is supplemented by five 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.

Resident commands

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II Marine Expeditionary Force

Marine Corps Forces Special Operations Command

2nd Marine Division

2nd Marine Logistics Group

2nd Marine Expeditionary Brigade

22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit

24th Marine Expeditionary Unit

26th Marine Expeditionary Unit

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Marine Corps Installations East

Marine Corps Engineer School

United States Marine Corps School of Infantry

Marine Corps Combat Service Support Schools

Reserve Support Unit

Naval Hospital Camp Lejeune

Field Medical Training Battalion (FMTB)

Joint Maritime Training Center (USCG)

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History

In April 1941, construction was approved on an 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. Today MCB Camp Lejeune boasts of beach capable of supporting amphibious operations. There are 78 live-fire ranges, 98 maneuver areas, 34 gun positions, 50 tactical landing zones and a state-of-the-art Military Operations in Urban Terrain training facility. Military forces from around the world come to MCB Camp Lejeune on a regular basis for bilateral and NATO-sponsored exercises.

Pollution

From at least 1957 through 1987, Marines and their families at Lejeune drank and bathed in water contaminated with toxins at concentrations up to 240-3400 times permitted by safety standards, and at least 850 former residents filed claims for nearly $4 billion from the military. The main chemicals involved were trichloroethylene (TCE), a degreaser, perchloroethylene (PCE), a dry cleaning solvent, and benzene; however, more than 70 chemicals have been identified as contaminants at Lejeune.

A 1974 base order required safe disposal of solvents and warned that improper handling could cause drinking water contamination. Yet solvents were dumped or buried near base wells for years.

The base's wells were shut off in the mid-1980s, but were placed back online in violation of the law. In 1982, Volatile organic compounds (VOCs) were found to be in Camp Lejeune's drinking water supply. VOC contamination of groundwater can cause birth defects and other ill health effects in pregnant and nursing mothers. This information was not made public for nearly two decades when the government attempted to identify those who may have been exposed.

An advocacy group called The Few, The Proud, The Forgotten was created to inform possible victims of the contamination at Lejeune. The group's website includes an introduction with some basic information about the contamination at Lejeune, including that many health problems various types of cancer, leukemia, miscarriages and birth defects, have been noted in people who drank the contaminated water. According to the site, numerous base housing areas were affected by the contamination, including Tarawa Terrace, Midway Park, Berkeley Manor, Paradise Point, Hadnot Point, Hospital Point, and Watkins Village.

On March 8, 2010, Paul Buckley of Hanover, Massachusetts, received a 100%, service connected disability from the Veterans Administration for cancer (Multiple Myeloma), which was linked to toxic water exposure on Camp Lejeune. This is believed to be the first time the government has admitted the link between the contamination and illnesses.

In 2007, Jerry Ensminger, a retired Marine master sergeant, found a document dated 1981 that described a radioactive dump site near a rifle range at the camp. According to the report, the waste was laced with strontium-90, an isotope known to cause cancer and leukemia. According to Camp Lejeune's installation restoration program manager, base officials learned in 2004 about the 1981 document. Ensminger served in the Marine Corps for 24 and a half years, and lived for part of that time at Camp Lejeune. In 1985 his 9-year-old daughter, Janey, died of cancer.

On July 6, 2009, Laura Jones filed suit against the US government over the contaminated water at the base. Jones previously lived at the base where her husband, a Marine, was stationed. Jones has lymphoma and now lives in Iowa.

Twenty former residents of Camp Lejeune—all men who lived there during the 1960s and the 1980s—have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Due to the relatively low rate of male breast cancer in the United States, pollution at Camp Lejeune is presumed to be a major contributor to these illnesses.

In April 2009, the United States Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry withdrew a 1997 public health assessment at Camp Lejeune that denied any connection between the toxins and illness.

As many as 500,000 people may have been exposed to contaminated water at Camp Lejeune over a period of 30 years. Although no official studies have definitively connected the contamination with illness, former residents of Camp Lejeune suffer from a high rate of cancer and other diseases. Children from the Marines have also shown signs of brain cancer and leukemia.

Marine Corps Brig

The military prison at Camp Lejeune has been in operation since 1968 and currently has a maximum capacity of 280 inmates who are incarcerated between 30 and 90 days.

The Base Realignment and Closure Commission (BRAC) recommended in 2005 that the brig be closed and the Secretary of Defense has to implement the commission's recommendations by a date still unknown. A new brig was built at Camp Allen in Norfolk, Virginia with a small detention facility built at Camp Lejeune to hold detainees awaiting court martial.

See also

Museum of the Marine

Camp Lejeune Incident

Marine Corps Air Station New River

List of United States Marine Corps installations

Lejeune High School, located on base, serving military dependents

Murder of Maria Lauterbach, a Lance Corporal stationed at Camp Lejeune who was murdered in December 2007.

References

:''This article incorporates text in the public domain from the United States Marine Corps.''

External links

Video summary of findings at Camp Lejeune Study

The Few, The Proud, The Forgotten

Camp Lejeune Vets/Personnel - search through Camp Lejeune vets and personnel at GIsearch

Camp Lejeune official website, including a history of Camp Lejeune

Camp Lejeune Globe, military-authorized newspaper

Montford Point Marines Honored at DoD Observance, a February 2006 AFIS press release

Onslow Beach - an introduction - article with image gallery of military training exercises, at ''Citizendium''

Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - Camp Lejeune, North Carolina: Water Modeling

An inside look at the base brig at www.lejeune.usmc.mil

USMC Camp Lejeune Base Overview & PCS Information (MarineCorpsUSA.org)

How to pronounce Lejeune

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Coordinates	41°52′55″N87°37′40″N
playername	Josh Emery
fullname	Joshua Stephen Emery
dateofbirth	September 30, 1990
cityofbirth	Ledbury
countryofbirth	England
height
position	Midfielder
youthyears1	200?–2009
youthclubs1	Cheltenham Town
years1	2009–
years2	2009
years3	2009–2010
clubs1	Cheltenham Town
clubs2	→ Oxford City (loan)
clubs3	→ Worcester City (loan)
caps1	1
goals1	0
caps2	?
goals2	?
caps3	15
goals3	1
club-update	17:05, 17 November 2010 (UTC) }}

Joshua Stephen "Josh" Emery (born 30 September 1990) is an English footballer, who most recently played for Cheltenham Town.

Career

Emery started his career as a youth player at for Cheltenham Town since the age of 13. He made his first team debut in a League One match against Southend United in the 2–0 away defeat on 2 May 2009, replacing Jake Lee as a substitute in the 55th minute.

Personal life

Emery was born in Ledbury, where he grew up. He represented Herefordshire Schools at both football and cricket.

References

External links

Josh Emery profile at ctfc.com

Category:1990 births Category:Living people Category:People from Ledbury Category:English footballers Category:Cheltenham Town F.C. players Category:Worcester City F.C. players Category:The Football League players

Dennis Anderson (born October 24, 1960) is a professional monster truck driver. He is the creator and driver of "Grave Digger" on the USHRA Monster Jam circuit. Originally from Norfolk, Virginia, he now resides in Poplar Branch, North Carolina. In Poplar Branch he has his own shop where he signs autographs and shoots videos for MTV, SPEED, TNT, and other TV channels. He also has a wide display of monster trucks including many Grave Diggers, one Taz, and one Fanta monster truck. He is always favored among a Monster Jam crowd.

Career

Dennis started out as a mud bogger with his original Grave Digger in 1981. This truck was a 1952 Ford pickup truck, later converted to a silver and blue 1951 Ford Panel Truck. At one local show, a scheduled monster truck failed to show up and Anderson, who already had large tractor tires on the truck, offered to crush cars in the absence of the full-size monster. The success of the vehicle led Anderson to pursue monster trucks as a career.

In 1986 Grave Digger underwent a transformation to complete monster truck and first received its distinctive black graveyard paint scheme. In 1987 and 1988 Anderson drove the truck primarily at TNT Motor sports races. In 1988 Anderson beat Bigfoot in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on a show taped for ESPN.

Anderson moved to Grave Digger 2 in 1989, with a new 1950 Chevrolet panel van body. TNT began promoting Grave Digger heavily, especially for races on the Tuff Trax syndicated television series and ESPN's Powertrax. This was helped by Bigfoot running a limited schedule in the 1989 championship. He was currently sixth in the standings in the 1990 TNT series when he decided to build Grave Digger 3 due to a wreck.

When TNT became a part of the USHRA in 1991, Anderson began running on the USHRA tour and debuted his first four-link truck, Grave Digger 3.

In late 1998, Anderson sold the Grave Digger team to Clear Channel Communications, leading to controversy and accusations of rigged races due to Anderson driving for the same company that runs the events. In 1999 he won his first championship in the USHRA series. In 2001, he drove Mr. Destruction into a wall of cars as a special stunt for the Louisiana Superdome show. Anderson won the inaugural Monster Jam World Finals freestyle championship in 2000, and scored a racing championship win at the 2004 World Finals. Anderson currently drives Grave Digger 20, which debuted in Minneapolis in December 2005, and in which he won another racing championship at the 2006 World Finals. Anderson has also won the 2010 World Finals Racing Championship driving Grave Digger 20.

Injuries

Anderson has had several injuries over his career. In late 1991 he broke his kneecap when he hit a wall at the Rosemont Horizon in Chicago, forcing him to sit out the 1992 winter season. He recovered and beat Jack Willman Jr. in Taurus at Carter Finley Stadium in Raleigh, North Carolina. Later in 1992, a hard side hit on the wall of Louisville Motor Speedway in Louisville, Kentucky broke several ribs near his backbone and caused recurring problems throughout his career. A nose-dive, AKA the lawn dart, at the Louisiana Superdome in New Orleans in 1999 aggravated the injury and caused Anderson to miss several shows over the next couple of years. He reinjured himself at a Special Events show in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania. A broken hand from a non-driving accident in Philadelphia in 2003 sat him out for half of that year. Another was an injury that was less known about was an injury to his right wrist during the summer of 2006 in a non monster truck accident. Anderson's most recent injury is an arm injury at the Metrodome in late 2006, meaning his son Adam Anderson drove Grave Digger at shows in early 2007.

Hallmarks

Anderson has often crashed or damaged his truck early in racing rounds due to his driving style. For this reason, he had a nickname of "One Run Anderson".

Back in his early mud bogging days, he was known for running full throttle, flinging mud everywhere. He would either make a mess going through, or break the truck from heavy strain during most events.

Awards

USHRA Racing Champion - 1999

USHRA World Finals Freestyle Champion - 2000

USHRA World Finals Racing Champion - 2004, 2006, 2010

Places Where He is Featured

Monster Jam Video Game

Monster Jam: Urban Assault Video Game

Monster Jam website

Grave Digger Website

Digger's Dungeon Shop

SPEED

TNT

Monster Jam

References

External links

Grave Digger official site

USHRA Driver Bio

Dennis Anderson Motor Sports Park

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