Pentagon considers leasing part of Camp Pendleton to help fund Golden Dome missile defense system

[highplainsdem]

Source: NBC

The Defense Department is considering leasing parts of Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California, for commercial use, with profits potentially helping fund President Donald Trump’s Golden Dome missile defense project, a current defense official and a former defense official told NBC News.

The base sprawls across more than 125,000 acres of Southern California, less than one-quarter of which is build out, including what the Marine Corps says is the “largest undeveloped portion of coastline in Southern California.”

Marines use some of the undeveloped land’s variety of terrain for training. The beaches are critical to amphibious landing training, for instance, while mountains, desert and rangeland are used in combat readiness drills.

The base, which is about 40 miles from San Diego, is home to the 1 Marine Expeditionary Force and a number of other Marine units and schools. Roughly 70,000 people are on the base most days.

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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/national-security/pentagon-considers-leasing-part-camp-pendleton-help-fund-golden-dome-m-rcna228813

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I was alerted to this by a Ron Filipkowski post on Bluesky:

Follow the money on this scam. Miles and miles of prime oceanfront real estate between SD and LA. I’m surprised it took him this long to cook up something on it.

— Ron Filipkowski (@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social) 2025-09-04T01:47:10.959Z

[Bluejeans]

1. If Trump REALLY believed we need "Golden Dome", he should ask Congress to pass a surtax to pay for it

I don't think he's serious about Golden Dome due to the huge cost, most likely on the scale of the current cost to modernize the ground-based ICBMs.

[DBoon]

2. Hotels and casinos along the Camp Pendelton shore?

With Trump's name on them no doubt

[highplainsdem]

3. Sounds like the plan. Damn him.

[popsdenver]

4. Isn't he also clearing out government building and properties?????

He has already committed to moving the FBI building I think......and he has mentioned the Denver Federal Center.........all prime real estate.......

What other prime real estate can he liquidate? But only if he gets a cut under the table of course.....a "developer" consulting fee!

With all the Federal government workers he is getting rid of, their buildings are soon to be bare and sell able......EPA, Dept of Interior, CDC, what else???????

With all his improvements to the White House, maybe he is planning on liquidating Mar-a-gago and making his new headquarters the WH....
In his mind, he doesn't plan on ever having to leave there, now that the voting is totally rigged.......

[chia]

5. Native Californian here. Camp Pendleton has always been the buffer between Los Angeles and San Diego

It is pristine country, a reminder of what California was, once upon a time. The state needs to keep it tied up in litigation until the asshole is out of office.

[Karasu]

6. An unserious idea being pushed by incompetent fascists who have no fucking idea how to pull it off, let alone fund it.

If the Pentagon wasn't now completely in the hands of his lackeys, they'd tell Krasnov to fucking pound sand.

[Ford_Prefect]

7. One more inappropriate appropriation of public property to prop up the outrageous plots of their felonious minds.

Illegal to do, an insupportable process, an inappropriate use of public lands and public funds.

As the mighty Gump has said: "Stupid is as Stupid does".

[msongs]

8. was at the pendleton beach near trestles day of the moon landing. whatta day. spent

many happy days at the beach frolicking with the closet marines lol

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

9. Developers have always slobbered over getting their grubby mitts on Pendleton.

"We're only going to lease some of it" is equivalent to "I'm just going to put it in a little."

They'll only want the beachfront property -- for now.

Dementia Don wants to turn Gaza into a resort. He probably got designs on Pendleton for a similar reason. Leasing (with option to buy) this beautiful land in SoCal would be slap in the face to Californians -- and Governor Newsom in particular.

I would like to thank the SCOTUS, AG Garland, Congressional Repukes and all the voters who thought giving a convicted felon, racist sociopath with a history of cruelty and a ruthless need for revenge against his enemies -- real and imagined -- a second bite of the apple was a great idea.

[BidenRocks]

10. It starts with leasing pieces.

Then the pieces grow and start complaining about the noise.

They will expect any munitions be blanks or training loads. No explosions!

Those helicopters at night? No.

More expansions, more residential.

They get political power and force the base to close.

Rest in Peace MCAS El Toro! (Now, The Great Park)

[Nigrum Cattus]

11. Bullshit dome will never work

Reagan's "star wars" joke was the same wet dream.
Hitting a missile with a missile doesn't work
https://thebulletin.org/2017/10/ballistic-missiles-limit-them-first-then-ban-them/#post-heading

[Karasu]

18. Exactly why I called it an unserious idea, because it is. It's Reaganesque pie in the sky bullshit that sounds "cool"

in the minds of Republicans and simpletons, but isn't remotely practical in its execution. This bunch of incompetents clearly hadn't put any thought into how to even fund it, let alone do anything more than that.

[quaint]

12. Camp Pendleton on Superfund list

Contaminant List

EPA has identified the chemical substances (i.e., hazardous substances, pollutants or contaminants) listed below as contaminants of concern (COCs) for the site. COCs are the chemical substances found at the site that EPA has determined pose an unacceptable risk to human health or the environment. These are the substances evaluated by EPA to be addressed by cleanup actions at the site.

[kimbutgar]

13. And the nuclear power plant San Onofre is nearby

No thank you. If you want to live there prepare for nuclear poisoning.

It’s not going to happen he is just throwing shit against the wall to see what sticks. And a lot of retired repuke marines won’t be happy either about this!

[quaint]

15. There are so many negatives with SONGS I'm just linking to Wikipedia.

San Onofre Nuclear Generating Station

[kimbutgar]

16. I'm in San Diego now in vacation and we passed by there and I remember reading the state wants to shut it

Down but has no place to move the radioactive material.

[quaint]

17. I think it has been decommissioned.

The plant was shut down in 2013 after a small leak of radioactive steam. Its owner, Southern California Edison, has been dismantling it for the last few years. More than 3.5 million pounds of nuclear waste is still stored there in steel canisters surrounded by concrete. Jul 25, 2024

AI (sorry) - getting tough to find accurate information.

[Mysterian]

14. Golden Dome Scam will funnel billions to the wealthy just like Reagan's Star Wars

and the American people will get nothing but the debt.