Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune

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.

Installation housing areas have been a desirable place for red fox to raise their young (pups) in the past and it’s that time of year again! Red foxes have one litter per year in late February through April. Pups are weaned at eight to ten weeks and learn to hunt at three months. As they grow older, pups explore farther from the den, and disperse to establish their own home range in September or October.Be a good fox neighbor by following these tips:1. Don't try to approach a fox, its young, or denIt is very common for red foxes to make their dens near human activity to protect themselves from larger predators. Young animals are often left alone while the parents gather food and are not necessarily abandoned. While raising young, fox may be

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

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