ATLANTIC OCEAN – A bipartisan Senate Staff Delegation witnessed the critical importance of amphibious readiness and naval integration firsthand during the Amphibious Squadron 8 (PHIBRON 8) and 22nd Marine Expeditionary Unit's (MEU) Integration (PMINT) exercise, held off the coast of Virginia and North Carolina from April 4-5, 2025. The delegation, comprised of Senate Military Legislative Assistants, Military, Defense and National Security Advisors, observed the complex coordination required to unite the air, ground and logistics elements of the 22nd MEU with the Iwo Jima Amphibious Ready Group (IWO ARG). The IWO ARG consists of its flagship, the Wasp-class amphibious assault ship USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) and the two San Antonio-class amphibious
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Gates on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and Marine Corps Air Station New River will be individually closed or altered to both inbound/outbound traffic for three-hour periods to undergo preventative maintenance from April 28 to 30, 2025.Dates and times of each closure are listed below, beginning with the Midway Park Gate on Monday afternoon. Base and air station patrons are encouraged to plan accordingly, and use suggested alternate routes listed below during these periods.Monday, April 28, 2025 Midway Park Gate from 3 to 6 p.m. (closed, use the Butler gate located on Holcomb Blvd., leading to NC-24 West) Piney Green Gate, closed at 5 p.m. (will resume normal hours April 29)Tuesday, April 29, 2025 Holcomb Gate from 8:30 to 11:30 a.m.
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Service members across II Marine Expeditionary Force Information Group (II MIG) attended a town hall conducted by the Deputy Commandant for Information (DCI), Lt. Gen. Melvin “Jerry” Carter, and hosted by II MIG at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, March 27, 2025.Carter and Master Gunnery Sgt. Samuel W. Castro Jr., the Senior Enlisted Advisor of the Office of DCI, spoke directly to participants concerning the impact and future of information warfighting and its capabilities.“The ones who are in a perpetual state of competition is II MEF, the global crisis response force,” said Carter. “You are the service-maintained capability. Our job is to make sure you have the capabilities.”Before opening the floor for questions, Castro
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Cortney Pierce, an emergency dispatch telecommunicator with the Provost Marshal’s Office, Marine Corps Installations East, Marine Corps Base (MCB) Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, was recently recognized as the MCICOM Emergency Dispatch Services Award for Public Safety Telecommunicator (PST) of the Year.Pierce began working as an emergency dispatch telecommunicator in 2007 at a local county agency. In 2015, she brought her experience and passion for helping others to MCB Camp Lejeune.Pierce’s commitment to public service began shortly after high school when she became an emergency medical technician (EMT). She served as both a volunteer EMT and a non-emergency transport EMT. Her drive to help others eventually led her to a career behind the
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A ribbon cutting and dedication ceremony for Military Construction (MILCON) Project P1312, now named “Rogers Hall”, took place on Friday, April 4, 2025, for the new United States Marine Corps Engineer School (MCES) at Courthouse Bay on Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune. In attendance were the wife, parents, siblings and other family, friends and fellow Marines of the late U.S. Marine Corps Staff Sergeant Jason A. Rogers. Rogers joined the Marine Corps and attended MCES in 2003. On April 7, 2011, he was killed in action while assigned to the 2nd Combat Engineer Battalion, 2nd Marine Division, conducting combat operations in support of Operation Enduring Freedom in Helmand province, Afghanistan. While undergoing heavy enemy fire, Rogers was
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