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Congress authorized Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point on 9 July 1941, with an initial appropriation of $14,990,000 for construction and clearing of an 8,000 acre (32 km 2) tract of swamps, farms and timberland. Actual clearing of the site began on 6 August 1941, with extensive drainage and malaria control work.
The 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW) is the major east coast aviation unit of the United States Marine Corps and is headquartered in Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. The Wing provides the aviation combat element for the II Marine Expeditionary Force .
Following the 2005 Base Realignment and Closure, the facility was realigned and its name changed to Fleet Readiness Center East in October 2006. [1] FRC East in 2017 received its first F35C Lightning II and successfully modified and upgraded it, showcasing its work as a depot-level aviation maintenance site for the F35.
Marine Corps Outlying Field Atlantic is a military airport of the United States Marine Corps in Atlantic, North Carolina, operated as a training field by Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point. External links
The Marine Corps Installations East (MCIEAST) is the regional authority tasked with providing support and oversight of seven United States Marine Corps installations on the East Coast. Mission [ edit ]
Marine Wing Support Group 27 (MWSG-27) is a United States Marine Corps aviation combat service support unit based at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point.It was composed of four squadrons, which provide the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing and II Marine Expeditionary Force with complete airfield operation services (less air traffic control), engineer and transportation support, medical assistance ...
The facility was formally commissioned as Naval Hospital Cherry Point on July 1, 1968, with oversight held by the Navy's Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. [1] Twenty-nine years later, construction began on a state-of-the-art facility with a total of 201,806 sq. feet at a cost of approximately $34 million designed by Rogers, Lovelock, and Fitz, Inc.