Hagan to attend opening of new hangar at Cherry Point
WASHINGTON, D.C.
U.S. Sen. Kay R. Hagan (D-North Carolina) will attend the opening of a new multi-million dollar hangar at the Cherry Point Marine Corps Air Station in Havelock, where the Fleet Readiness Center East will perform maintenance on V-22 Osprey aircraft.
Col. David Smith, commanding officer of FRC East, invited Hagan to attend the ribbon cutting and view the new facility.
The senator is also set to meet with the base commander and the commander of the Repair Group to discuss the 100 new joint strike fighters that have been allocated to the Cherry Point Base and what that means for North Carolina.
Hagan comes from a military family. Her father-in-law is a retired two-star Marine Corps general, and her husband, Chip, served in the Vietnam War.
She has been appointed to the Senate Armed Services Committee.
The ribbon-cutting at Cherry Point is at 10 a.m. Friday.
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