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MARINE CORPS AIR STATION (MCAS) CHERRY POINT is the world's largest Marine Corps Air Station. The Air Station is home to the 2D Marine Aircraft Wing and to the Marine Corps' only Naval Aviation Depot which performs work on aircraft and aircraft components used by the Marine Corps, Navy, and other services. Other major tenants are the Naval Hospital and Combat Service Support Group-21 (CSSD-21).

The MCAS's major task is supporting 2dMAW to train to go anywhere, at anytime, to fight and to win and to have an enhanced quality of life. Along with readiness and quality of life issues are the challenges to protect the environment in the surrounding communities and to be good neighbors to our friends in the Crystal Coast area.

MCAS CHERRY POINT'S mission is to provide the highest quality operating environment for all using activities; operate and maintain facilities and assigned aircraft; furnish a full range of vital support services; nurture the quality of life; protect the natural environment; conduct proactive community relations; and to provide America with the best trained, best led, best supported armed forces capable of operating anytime, anywhere - to fight, win and survive.

The Constitution of the United States of America calls upon our government to provide for the common defense of its citizens. Like so many other functions of government, this requires those in uniform and in the civilian work force to make sacrifices in their personal lives....to train hard and long, to deploy often, to move their families around the country and the world, and give up potential earning power.

Preparedness requires effort from the surrounding community...government and non-government affiliated...as well. Nowhere does this team function more effectively than at Cherry Point.

Major Tenants are 2D MARINE AIRCRAFT WING; NAVAL AVIATION DEPOT; NAVAL HOSPITAL; CSSD-21.

Population served: 46,258

Active Duty: 7,874

Family Members: 27,132

Retirees: 5,613

Civilian Employees: 5,639

The Air Station has enjoyed a history steeped in a successful relationship with the surrounding eastern North Carolina communities since 1942, with its tenant aircraft wings - first the 3dMAW, then the 9thMAW, and finally the 2dMAW - and with the Naval Aviation Deport from 1946 to the present. Units and personnel training at Cherry Point have performed with distinction in every major world event that Marine Corps aviation has participated in during the last 50 years: World War II, Korean War, Lebanon, the Cuban Missile Crisis, the Dominican Republic, the Vietnam War, Grenada, Panama, and Desert Storm as well as numerous humanitarian relief operations.

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