Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Camp Barrett, VA

Camp Barrett is not a town or village but a named training camp within Marine Corps Base Quantico in Stafford County, Virginia, listed in the dataset with the Quantico ZIP code 22134.

Camp Barrett is the home of The Basic School (TBS), where every newly commissioned and appointed United States Marine Corps officer is taught the basics of being an Officer of Marines.

The camp is named for Major General Charles Dodson Barrett, the first commanding general of the 3rd Marine Division and a former instructor at the Marine Corps schools at Quantico.

General Barrett was killed while on duty in the South Pacific on October 8, 1943, and was posthumously awarded the Distinguished Service Medal for his World War II service.

The camp began as Camp Onyule during Quantico's World War II expansion west of Interstate 95 and was later renamed Camp Barrett; The Basic School has been established at Camp Barrett since 1952.

Lunga Reservoir was constructed during World War II as a water source for Camp Barrett, and the surrounding Lunga Park area is now a recreation area on the base.

Camp Barrett lies along the southern boundary of the Marine Corps Base Quantico installation, with its own water system historically serving The Basic School, the Department of Justice complex and the Weapons Training Battalion.

Marine Corps Base Quantico as a whole covers nearly 55,148 acres across Prince William, Stafford and Fauquier counties and has been in use since 1917, earning the nickname 'Crossroads of the Marine Corps.'

Camp Barrett has no civilian census population of its own; the Census Bureau instead counts base housing in the separate Quantico Base CDP, which had 5,221 residents at the 2020 census.