DOD grant benefits Onslow County schools
Onslow County Schools receives a $906,000 grant from the Department of Defense, which will provide training and resources for teachers and students.
View Article5 Onslow teens semifinalists for Military Child of the Year
Out of the 96 semifinalists for the Operation Homefront 2019 Military Child of the Year, five reside in Onslow County.The local semifinalists are:Jaxson Jordan, 13, Tarawa Terrace, Marine CorpsElvine...
View ArticleNMCCL celebrates Trauma Level III designation
Officials gathered around an oversized blue pair of scissors to cut a ribbon, which represented the culmination of a lot of hard work.Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune (NMCCL) is designated as Trauma...
View ArticleHigh court lets military implement transgender restrictions
WASHINGTON (AP) | The Trump administration can go ahead with its plan to restrict military service by transgender men and women while court challenges continue, the Supreme Court said Tuesday.The high...
View ArticleNavy denies claims linked to contaminated water
Editor's note: This article was updated at 7:45 p.m. to include the most recent version.WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Navy is denying thousands of claims from service members and their families who were...
View ArticleThousands of base houses still await repairs
Editor's note: Due to a reporter's error two statistics in this story have been updated.Thousands of homes remain damaged more than five months after Hurricane Florence hit Eastern North Carolina...
View ArticleMarines conduct simulated casualty exercise
Of the many steps needed to bring injured troops to safety, one of them is considering the environment.Marines with 8th Engineer Support Battalion, 2nd Marine Logistics Group, put those steps into...
View ArticleSurvey on privatized base housing underway
An effort is now underway to gather information from military families about their experience in living in privatized base housing.Shannon Razsadin, executive director of the Military Family Advisory...
View ArticleState of the Community address focuses on Florence
Members of Jacksonville, Onslow County, Camp Lejeune and the surrounding community reflected on the past year in the annual State of the Community address Friday morning.It became apparent fairly...
View ArticleNew base security system effective April 1
A new base security system will take effect April 1.Contractors, vendors and other non-affiliated personnel will need the new Defense Biometric Identification System (DBIDS) credential before April 1...
View ArticleCouple married 64 years dies four days apart
“They did everything together in life. It wasn’t surprising to anybody that they went together in death.”
View ArticleTimeline for base housing repairs accelerated
“We initially projected 18 months for storm recovery ... Now that we have been able to bring in more people, we’ve been able to shorten that and be able to complete roof repairs by May of this year and...
View ArticleMarines 'make it work' post-Florence
Following 2018’s destructive hurricane season, Marine Corps bases along the east coast are facing damages totaling $3.6 billion.Of this, $1.2 billion will go towards repairing or renovating 245...
View ArticleVietnam film stars Onslow County resident
An longtime Onslow County resident starred in a Vietnam war film that released this week.“Point Man,” which went on sale Tuesday, depicts the story of African-American soldiers in the war and how one...
View ArticleCorpsman memorial making progress
After the Corpsmen Memorial Foundation, Inc. started the push for a memorial in 2008, there is an end in sight for the future corpsmen memorial statue at Lejeune Memorial Gardens.
View ArticleHonoring African American history in Onslow County
During Black History Month the Montford Point Marines often come to mind.A presidential directive in 1942 gave African Americans an opportunity to join the U.S. Marine Corps, but instead of joining...
View ArticleMilitary families report negative base housing experiences
More than half of the nearly 17,000 survey respondents said they are dissatisfied with privatized base housing.
View ArticleMarine’s innovative idea is changing how the Corps operates
Gunnery Sgt. Christopher List tore apart a motor as a four-year-old, constructed a go-kart at age six and rebuilt a car engine from scratch at 15.Now he is rebuilding the way systems operate in the...
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