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Construction Equipment

Construction Equipment includes power shovels, mobile cranes, bull-dozers, concrete mixers, ditching machines, road and airfield construction and maintenance machinery, earthmoving trailers and similar construction equipment. It excludes dump trucks.

The Marine Corps Family of Construction Equipment encompasses a wide variety of apparatus, ranging from heavy earth-moving machinery to small excavation vehicles. It includes the D7G bulldozer (with ripper and winch), Scraper 621B wheeled hydraulic excavator, small 1155 bucket loader, 1150 angle-blade bulldozer, road grader 130G, runway sweepers, backhoe loaders, engineer equipment trailers, and 260 CFM compressors.

The Family of Construction Equipment provides the Marine Air-Ground Task Force (MAGTF) with the ability to conduct mobility, survivability, and general and civil engineering tasks in support of operating forces. Examples include building airfields, emplacing pads for vertical/short take-off and landing (V/STOL) aircraft, clearing landing zones, creating fuel berms, and general construction.

The Family of Construction Equipment program maintains the Marine Corps' construction capability. As such, various items are replaced as determined appropriate by the life cycle manager, Program Manager Engineer Systems. Specific items may be managed as acquisition or abbreviated- acquisition programs. However, there are several acquisition programs in progress at any point in time.

All personnel who are or may be assigned to duties involving the operation of government furnished construction and railroad equipment shall be tested and licensed in accordance with the provisions of NAVFAC P-300 before being permitted to operate such equipment. Equipment listed above requires licensing under this program. Operators of weight handling equipment must be licensed in accordance with NAVFAC P-307. DOD contract personnel will not be issued a government license.

NAVFAC P-300 requires persons licensed to operate construction or weight handling equipment to carry a Construction Equipment Operators License, NAVFAC Form 11260/2, as official evidence that the person named therein has been officially accepted as qualified to operate the types of equipment specified on the license. Such license is required to be on one's person when operating specified equipment. The NAVFAC licensing requirement specifically applies to persons operating equipment with a gross vehicle weight greater than 10,000 pounds. Persons operating vehicles with a gross vehicle weight under 10,000 pounds must hold a valid state drivers license.