NASM provides shelter for weather-stranded GIs

Naval Air Station Meridian, Miss., provided winter-weather sheltering for a stranded group of Army paratroopers of the 1st Brigade Combat Team overnight Jan. 29. The 703 personnel had been stranded on Interstate 20 on the way to Fort Bragg, N.C. The group had just completed training at Fort Polk, La., in preparation of an upcoming deployment. The team left Louisiana early Jan. 28 and was thwarted by a 5-hour traffic standstill on I-20. The Soldiers took refuge at NASM’s Regional Counterdrug Training Academy and Navy Gateway Inns. NAS Meridian’s commander, Capt. Charles C. Moore II, said the training base was proud to have had this opportunity to support forward-deployed war-fighters. Source: Naval Air Station Meridian, Jan. 30, 2014.