Col. Gregory B. Pace now leads the second-largest employer in the city
Victorville Daily Press
A new leader is in charge at the U.S. Marine Corps Logistics Base, which transitions from a commander whose three-year term saw the base’s reach and purpose expand while nearly $3 billion worth of equipment rolled in and out on Barstow’s rail lines.
During a ceremony Thursday morning, Col. Gregory B. Pace became commanding officer at a base that is Barstow s second-largest employer behind only the Army s Fort Irwin National Training Center, according to data the city provided the Daily Press.
The base’s strategic positioning in the High Desert is valuable to the military supply chain, too; it is a neighbor to BNSF Railway’s Intermodal Facility, and almost a midway point between Fort Irwin and the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center in Twentynine Palms.
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A tattoo artist works on Dalton native and Marine Corps veteran Johnny Joey Jones in this scene from USA Ink, a show hosted by Jones. The show debuts Friday on the Fox Nation streaming service.
Dalton native Johnny Joey Jones got his first tattoo in 2005. I was in Twentynine Palms, California (home of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center), just out of boot camp, he recalled. I had earned a title, achieved a goal. I had earned the title of Marine and got an eagle, globe and anchor (the symbol of the Marine Corps) tattooed on my left shoulder. I think before you go and mark your body up, you should earn it.
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