Friday, October 5, 2012
Project to cost $10.5 million and will create a center with 300 Navy personnel assigned there, according to Rep. Tim Murphy.
Military and elected officials will break ground at 10 a.m. Saturday on a $10.5 million Navy Operational Support Center on the grounds of Moon Township's 911th Air Reserve Station. The center will include space for administration, recruiting, instruction, a drill hall, exercise and fitness, and medical examinations. It is scheduled to open in February 2014, according to U.S. Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Upper St.Clair and will replace the current NOSC facility in North Versailles. Murphy said about 300 Navy personnel will be assigned to the base once it is completed. "We are very excited to have this in our region," he told Patch in a telephone interview. "It is a huge benefit to our region for multiple reasons. It provides easy access to training…
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Thursday, October 4, 2012
The Naval operations center will open on the grounds of Moon Township's 911th Airlift Wing in February 2014.
Officials will break ground Saturday on a Naval Operations Support Center located on the grounds of Moon Township's 911th Airlift Wing. The two-story facility will include space for Navy recruiting, administration and medical services, as well as a drill hall. The building is expected to open in February 2014, according to a statement from Rep. Tim Murphy, R-Upper St. Clair. Murphy and Vice Admiral Robin Braun, Chief of the Navy Reserve and Commander of the Navy Reserve Force, will be on hand at 10 a.m. Saturday at the airlift wing for the ground-breaking ceremony and reception. The new Naval facility will replace an existing one in North Versailles. Cost estimates for the project and the number of Navy personnel assigned to the new …
Friday, August 17, 2012
Construction will soon be under way on a University Boulevard military commissary, marking the end of a six-year battle to bring the facility to Moon.
Sen. Bob Casey, D-Scranton, said it was a testament to perseverance. Members of Pennsylvania's Congressional delegation and military officials from across the region earlier today attended the ground-breaking ceremony for the long-awaited Moon Township military commissary. The 43,000 square-foot facility, set to open in the fall of 2013, will house a grocery story for more than 170,000 military members and their families in Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia. The regional hub will be located at the corner of University Boulevard and the Interstate 376 Business Route in Moon and will more than double the size of Oakdale's Charles E. Kelly Commissary, which is slated to close. The effort to bring the new commissary to Moon has been in…
Monday, May 28, 2012
An official with the Veterans of Foreign Wars Keith-Homes Post 402 says new members have been hard to come by in recent years.
Ken Ochman, quartermaster for the Veterans of Foreign War Post 402, knows the number by heart: 390. It's the number of members now enrolled in the Coraopolis-based VFW, and it's a number that Ochman said gets smaller by the year. "We loose probably 25 to 30 members a year," Ochman said. "And I think last year we signed up only four new members. Maybe five." Membership has declined steadily at VFW posts throughout the country since national membership peaked in the 1990s at 2.2 million. Today, 1.45 veterans are members of the organization—more than 30 percent of them are older than 70, according to VFW statistics. Ochman said deaths among the Post 402 ranks are the reason for its dwindling numbers. He said most of the veterans …
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jack wise
9:20 am on Saturday, August 18, 2012
to mikeyiscool: i stand corrected. you are right. the organizations you identified deserve credit. god bless you, too, sir (or madam--which ever the case may be.) respectfully, jack wise p.s. mikeyiscool--my email address is jackwise@comcast.net. please contact me directly. i would welcome the opportunity to speak to you personally. more ›