I was wondering if there are any other Active or Former Marines out there that served some time at Cherry Point. That was my permanent station from 93-95 for MALS-14 Ordninance (6541). I remember kickin some *** at Atlantic Beach some weekends and others spent at ECU turning the college girls into Marine Corps Groupies...lol. If anyone has any great Stories to share about their Cherry Point time...lets get some replies.
1969: S.A.T.S.School 1969: Conventional & Special Weapons Loading School 1974-75: VMA(aw)-224, MAG-14. Ordnance Shop and Squadron Career Planner. Lived off post between Havelock and New Bern on Hwy 70...close to the Township 6 Volunteer Fire Department building site.
Hey, im stationed here right now and atalntic beach is terrible now. i was just on leave and the new recruiter was stationed here and he said atlantic beach was the best like 5 years ago. a lot has changed since then from marines gettin in trouble and so forth. we still go there and hang out but from older marines it sounds like were missin out. oorah
Yeah I remember Cherry Point really well. My friends and I worked Greenville over pretty good every weekend we could. Groupies wasn't the word for it. It's kinda funny, after I got out there at Cherry Point, I enrolled there at ECU, lol.I saw Marines there all the time, I got more by warning the ladies about us...lol, great days.. Semper Fi---------------
It's been a while, but the last time I tried to hit ECU areas (bar hopping, of course) most clubs didn't let in my date. Lucky for me, as a WM w/ hair down to my *** I would waltz right in w/o a cover charge and my date would find something else to do. That's way I always drove.
I was there from June 96 to October 96...for school. I was in VMGRT-253 training to be a Flight Mech. I enjoyed it but I used to take the bus in New Burn to Wilmington and Oak Island.
Cherry Point, NC...what memories! I was stationed there from Jan 75-Jan 76, as a 7234 in MACS-6. (I received orders to MSG School after that.) Best times that I had was traveling the "small" towns esp. those with Military bases. I would say check out the Air Force clubs. Almost like partying off-base. The civies on AFBs love Marines!
Can't remember, but was an HMS squadron. They shipped all females 16 and older off somewhere. Never saw any. Remember the frogmore lights. Most boring place in the world back then. Movies were a quarter, beer cheap, but you can't get it now. But we had the 96 hour swoop which would take me home to the women of my dreams who wrote me a Dear John while in Nam. Go figure. \Gary
Was there in 78-79. The WM barracks had a chain link fence and flood lights around it. Every time we had a bad storm the station would lose electricity. I lived in one of those little trailer courts between New Bern and Havelock too. I worked in the Joint Education Center which was located behind the chow hall. I still hate seagulls to this day. They would screech and fight over whatever they could get out of the dumpsters back there and if you were wise you carried an umbrella at all times.
I was stationed there from 1999-2003, VMA-223. Remember all the unending days of FOD walking the runway and taxiways. Wide strips of blacktop so long they just curved over the horizon...sure glad I don't have to do that anymore.
Ah "The PIT" I was @ Cherry Point from Dec 84- Jan 88 on Marine Baracks Duty @ the NADEP or NARF for the old timers, Havelock, New Bern I could do with out. on a long weekend due to our schedule It was "SWOOP" time and we got the heck outta Dodge!!!!! Opels Den and the Driftwood were the hot spots. Greenville has ALWAYS been loaded with promiscuous College Co-eds. "The Attic" was the hot spot there. and Atlantic beach had a place up the road from Chevy's that did Nickle raft all night with a $5 cover
