The Marine Corps will be forced to reduce its force structure to 174,000 Marines by fiscal year 2017 if sequestration continues, and that move will result in closing a three-star command headquarters at Camp Lejeune, NC, a Marine Corps official said today. Last spring, Maj. Gen. Kenneth McKenzie, the service's representative to the Quadrennial Defense Review, led an internal force-structure review that took into account the drawdown from Iraq and Afghanistan. The review led to a new force-structure goal of...
