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The full Joint Land Use Study is available for download using the icon below.
Question: What is JLUS?
Answer: JLUS is an acronym for Joint Land Use Study.
Question: Where did the idea originate?
Answer: JLUS is a DOD initiative started in the mid 1990s as a process to facilitate military installation/community **discussions to stop incompatible community encroachment on the military installations borders.
Question: Camp Lejeune is the largest Base in the MC, why do they need more land?
Answer: The JLUS is not about acquiring more land. It is about negotiating community development agreements that permit the Base to continue performing its mission on existing land size.
Question: How could training be affected if this isn't approved?
Answer: If agreements cannot be made to hedge encroachment, more and more training capabilities will be adversely affected and units will have to travel to other military installations to satisfy training requirements. As Camp Lejeune's capability to train Marines diminishes, the possibility of a Base closure becomes a reality.
Question: Doesn't the Base already have enough land?
Answer: Yes. The JLUS is not about acquiring additional land; it is about protecting our future capability to use land we already have for its intended purpose.
Question: Why can't we move training inward one mile rather than taking land from local homeowners?
Answer: The Base uses every bit of land it currently has to provide adequate training facilities/training areas to satisfy training needs of the Base's operating forces. Training today is based on providing every Marine gunner a capability to engage target systems at the maximum effective range of the weapon and with deadly accuracy, both vital to success in today's potential battlegrounds. Moving the Base borders in one mile would dramatically decrease the number of weapons systems our Marines could become proficient with before they deploy.
Question: Are we able and willing to buy the property from the owners at reasonable prices?
Answer: Again, the JLUS is not about acquiring property by whatever means possible. On the other hand, if a homeowner is a willing seller and is in an area of the JLUS Study, we would be willing to discuss it.
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