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KPBS and U-T plug Jacobs airport-moving scheme
As the largest coastal base for the Marine Corps and the only location on the West Coast to conduct amphibious landing operations and training, Camp Pendleton is a unique and irreplaceable asset important to the defense of the nation and its interests around the world. The primary value of Camp Pendleton is in its ranges - integrated land, sea, and air space, with committed live-fire opportunities unmatched anywhere in the world. These training ranges cannot be replaced or duplicated. Marines aboard Camp Pendleton conduct artillery, mortar, and air-to-ground munitions training, which is incompatible with housing a large international airport on the base. Plus, the impacts to the environment and surrounding communities will require expensive and extensive mitigation efforts destroying years of carefully planned and executed environmental stewardship of both Camp Pendleton and its neighbors. Simply put, building an international airport anywhere on Camp Pendleton renders the rest of the installation effectively unusable for Marine Corps training evolutions like Exercise Steel Knight that is currently being conducted and places into jeopardy the mission of the Marine Corps on the base.— December 9, 2015 8:46 p.m.