Marine Corps completes ‘wall-to-wall’ barracks inspection. Here’s what’s next

Federal Drive with Tom Temin

For decades, the Marine Corps prioritized buying weapon systems over quality of life issues, which allowed the service to have enough data to justify its funding requests to purchase new weapon platforms when needed.

It was only recently that the service recognized it didn’t track any information on the state of its barracks.

“We didn’t have the data to say how we are tracking the facility’s condition in detail to defend more than $200 million a year for that. But we did have the data to say we need this force design weapon system or this modernized vehicle or this modernized weapon platform,” Lt. Gen. James Adams, the deputy Marine commandant for programs and resources, told reporters at the Modern Day Marine conference Wednesday.

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