Tropical Storm Colin formed early this morning off of the South Carolina coast and is expected to pass across eastern North Carolina and Marine Corps Air Station New River overnight Saturday into Sunday morning.

Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River will partner with local emergency services to conduct Exercise Vigilant Response, June 29, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. on MCAS New River.The local community can expect the following significant events: Increased emergency services radio and communication traffic. On-base exercise announcements. First responder vehicle movement, including fire trucks, ambulances, police cars and medical helicopters, traveling between MCAS New River and Naval Medical Center Camp Lejeune.The annual, full-scale exercise provides realistic training opportunities to increase air station and community first responder readiness and recovery efforts during a mass casualty event. Community participants include Novant Health New

Very few individuals can say that they’ve won Marine Corps Air Station New River Civilian of the Quarter, MCAS New River Civilian of the Year 2020, and now, the Marine Corps Civilian Administrator of the Year 2021.Each year out of every civilian administrator in the U.S. Marine Corps lies one individual chosen to receive the award, “Marine Corps Civilian Administrator of the Year,” presented on behalf of the Marine Corps Association by the individual’s commanding officer and sergeant major. This year, Ms. Megan P. Perkins, administrative assistant with Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron (H&HS), MCAS New River, received the 2021 Marine Corps Administrator of the Year Award, making it her third award for achievement in the civilian sector

U.S. Marine Corps Cpl. Nathan Eubank, a meteorology and oceanography (METOC) analyst forecaster with Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron (H&HS), is the Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) New River Go-Getter of the Month. Eubank, a Deer Park, Texas native, enlisted as an Aviation Operations Specialist in July 2018.“I joined so that I could travel,” Eubank said. “College wasn’t really an option for me yet, so I was looking for a challenge.”Eubank graduated from Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego in October 2018, later arriving at his schoolhouse in Biloxi, Mississippi, where he was designated to train as a METOC analyst forecaster, not expecting the pace of his career.“I ended up being at the school house for approximately 54 weeks,” said