The Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point community came together on Friday, Oct. 4, 2024, to celebrate the U.S. Navy’s 249th birthday.
Sailors and civilians serving at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point celebrated the occasion with a Navy Ball hosted by Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point staff at the Havelock Convention Center in Havelock, North Carolina.
“Our mission to keep warfighters engaged in combat is to ensure that service members assigned to Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, ‘America’s Air Station,’ maintain the highest possible medical readiness. “This is extremely important,” said Navy Capt. Sean Barbabella. Commander, Naval Health Clinic Cherry Point.
“When the red phone rings on the 2nd Marine Wing Commander’s desk and orders are sent to deploy troops, your commitment to outstanding patient care will ensure that your Marines and Sailors receive the best medical care possible.” You will find that you are ready,” Barbabella told the clinic staff in attendance. ball.
The event’s keynote speaker, nationally renowned historian Wilbur D. Jones Jr., whose father served in the Marine Corps in World War I and the clinic’s namesake, is a Medal of Honor recipient. told the audience about the pharmacist, Second Mate William. D. Harry Burton Jr. Harry Burton is a native of Wilmington, North Carolina, where Jones grew up and still lives.
“Progress and time have erased and ravaged the battlefield. Yet, by reading Marine Corps records, we are able to partially reconstruct what happened and uncover the character of Hospitalman Halliburton.” “We can do that,” Jones said.
Mr. Jones continued his remarks by telling the audience about the fierce battle that took place on May 10, 1945 in Shima, Okinawa, between Japanese forces and Marines from the 2nd and 5th Marines of the 1st Marine Division. . Halliburton would sacrifice his life to save a wounded Marine who was furthest from his position that day.
The evening’s formal event program concluded with the official birthday cake cutting and singing of the Marine Corps Hymn and Anchors Away.
Photographed: October 4, 2024 Posted: October 7, 2024 10:16 Story ID: 482654 Location: Havelock, North Carolina, USA Web Views: 5 Downloads: 0 Public Domain
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