Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point News

PUTNAM VALLEY: Marine 1st Lt. Troy Battaglia was decorated Oct. 9 with the Bronze Star with Valor in recognition of heroic actions during his 10-month deployment as a Marine Embedded Training Team adviser for the Afghanistan National Army.

CAMP LEJEUNE, N.C.: The largest exercise designed to examine advanced combat identification technologies that can reduce the risk of fratricide on future battlefields wrapped up recently.

The Army's top officer is concerned about a backlash against Muslims in the US military following the shootings at Fort Hood.

In 1985, Anthony Sowell left the Marine Corps as a corporal after a seven-year career as an electrician that took him to Marine bases across the world.

Heisman Trophy winner Herschel Walker will visit North Carolina-based Marines to promote a treatment program for mental health and chemical dependency.

Two Hampton Roads military bases are in the running to house the consolidation of several Marine Corps anti-terrorism units.

Melina Nolte and her 8-year-old daughter Alanna call this quaint Carolina town home, but not because of its close proximity to the beach or its southern hospitality.

The US Naval Facilities Engineering Command Mid-Atlantic awarded indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity multiple award construction contracts to 8 contractors for paving and civil-type projects at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point and all outlying fields, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune , and other military and government installations/sites ...

Marine Corps fighter jets are preparing for an upcoming deployment with a series of practice landings at a South Carolina base.

Although he took command of Marine Corps Air Station Yuma just over a year ago, Col.

There's new leadership at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point. A change of command ceremony was held Thursday where Colonel Douglas Denn assumed control of the base in Craven County.

A new Corpswide proposal calls for banning specific dogs and mixes of those breeds from all Marine bases as soon as September.

Enlisted Marines at a South Carolina base are welcoming a new senior enlisted advisor as they bid farewell to the installation's 27th sergeant major.

Seven North Carolina counties surrounding three Marine bases need improved roads, new schools, and more emergency responders to handle a troop expansion already under way, according a new report.

Construction of a proposed new entrance to Camp Lejeune will be done in phases and is targeted to begin in fall 2010, according to a base official.

The Coast Guard has suspended the search for a boater who has been missing for three days.

The Coast Guard, Marine Corps and Pamlico County Sheriff are searching for a missing teen Sunday morning in the Neuse River near Oriental .

The Navy isn't a politician, and it shouldn't make critical decisions based on parochial preferences.

Diane Henson of Self-Help Housing witnessed the signatures of the LeFlore County Commissioners Freddie Cox, Carroll Rogers and Lance Smith, as they signed the proclamation declaring June as National Homeownership Month in LeFlore County.

When he thinks back to the boy he used to be, Wally Simmons smiles in a flash. His eyes dance as he remembers the 17-year-old kid who had just graduated high school and joined the Marine Corps.