News Tags: aviation
HMLA-467 rolls out big guns for family day
Story by Cpl. Scott L. Tomaszycki | 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing & Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point | Date: 10.24.2012It’s not every day families see the end result of their Marine’s efforts at work. For Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 467 families, that opportunity meant spending a day at the bombing range watching... Read More
Cherry Point pilots remember role in apocalyptic close-call
Story by Cpl. Scott L. Tomaszycki | 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing & Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point | Date: 10.24.2012Fifty years ago this month, RF-8A Crusaders sped hundreds of miles per hour only 50 feet above the surface of the Caribbean Sea. Their mission: to enter hostile airspace above Cuba and capture photographs.... Read More
Cross-training makes for well-rounded soldier
Story by Sgt. Shanika Futrell | 159th Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs | Date: 10.23.2012When Spc. Angelica Natalie Antiporda, now a quartermaster and chemical equipment repairer with Company E, 4th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, first deployed to Afganistan, she did not have an noncommissioned... Read More
ALD Marine, family receives Family of the Quarter
Story by Lance Cpl. Paul Wyatt | 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing & Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point | Date: 10.23.2012On top of meeting career and continuing education demands, one Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 2 Marine volunteers more than 200 hours of his time each year helping young athletes grow. His wife has collected... Read More
March for Cancer supports survivors, honors victims
Story by Jennifer Andersson | 159th Combat Aviation Brigade Public Affairs | Date: 10.20.2012"For my bestie," "for my mother," "for my sister," "for my friend's dad," "for my daughter," "for my grandmother I never met." The reasons friends, families and neighbors participated in the three-mile March... Read More