Dan Barkin
Retired managing editor, The News&Observer, Raleigh NC B.S. Business Administration, Old Dominion University. M.A. Journalism, UMD
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Point Taken: Runway Success
A community college, a military repair depot and state leaders join forces to build an aviation workforce in eastern North Carolina. I was in Kinston in mid-August to see Rusty Hunt, president of Lenoir Community College, and visit the new $25 million Sen. Jim Perry Aviation Center for Excellence at the North Carolina Global TransPark. It had been three months since the ribbon-cutting.
FRC East gets new leader
Marine Corps Col. Christopher McDonald II assumed command of Fleet Readiness Center East from Navy Capt. Randy Berti last week. FRC East is on Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point in Havelock. It is the largest industrial employer in eastern North Carolina, with more than 3,900 employees, and it overhauls aircraft, mostly Navy and Marine aircraft.
Hendrix to lead NC Military Business Center
Martin J. “Jimmy” Hendrix III, a retired Army colonel, will become executive director of the North Carolina Military Business Center Oct. 1, succeeding Scott Dorney, the NCMBC’s founder and leader for more than two decades. Dorney is retiring at the end of the year. Hendrix A Fayetteville native, Hendrix was appointed by Fayetteville Tech President Mark Sorrells.
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