CAMP KINSER, Okinawa — Marines here are the best administrative team in the Pacific.

The Camp Kinser Installation Personnel Administration Center snagged the top score during a biannual inspection by the Marine Corps Administration Analysis Team in October. It scored 96.11, well above the passing score of 90 and the Marine Corps IPAC average of 94, according to Chief Warrant Officer Terry D. Herron, Kinser IPAC director.

And it did it while preparing to merge with other Okinawa camp IPACs into two centralized IPACs on camps Foster and Hansen.

Inspectors graded the IPAC’s quality of service and day-to-day operations, covering everything from internal procedures to how personnel are paid, according to a Marine Corps press release.

The inspection team’s report recognized two Marines for their exceptional job performance — Lance Cpl. Sadat Lwanga, noncommissioned officer in charge of deployments and exercise readiness, and Lance Cpl. Richard C. Cabaya, a promotions clerk.

The consolidation of Okinawa’s IPACs began Nov. 14 as part of a massive restructuring of the Marine Corps’ personnel and administration field.

Okinawa is one of the first and largest installations to implement the Corpswide effort to eliminate smaller personnel administration centers at lower-level commands by consolidating them into 14 IPACs throughout the Marine Corps, according to Col. Ted Devlin, assistant chief of staff for Manpower and Administration with III Marine Expeditionary Force.

All southern IPACs are being consolidated at IPAC Okinawa South on Camp Foster, and all camps north of Camp Courtney will be consolidated at IPAC Okinawa North on Camp Hansen. The changes are scheduled for completion by the end of the month.

Under the consolidation plan, support centers composed of six to seven administration Marines will remain in the other camps in place of unit IPACs. The support centers will handle day-to-day administrative needs and funnel everything to the consolidated IPACs.

The consolidation is the first step in a process that will end in one centralized IPAC office on Camp Foster by January 2007 and support centers at the other camps. A new building on Camp Foster is planned for the consolidated IPAC, to be completed by 2013, according to Curtis Kozlesky, deputy assistant chief of staff for Manpower and Administration for Marine Corps Base Camp Butler.

The facility also will house the Disbursing, Housing and Traffic Management Offices.