Quantico’s Welcome Aboard Brief and Fair provides insight, information about the base

By Jeremy Beale/Staff Writer | Marine Corps Base Quantico | June 5, 2017

Katelyn, a library technician at Marine Corps Base Quantico library speaks with an airmen about their summer reading program, Reading by Design, expected to take place June 19-July 28. The event inspired by the creativity of artists and architects will feature programs for all aboard base, both child and adult, to encourage and support a continued love for reading. Registration begins June 1 at QuanticoBase.beanstack.org.

Marine Corps Base Quantico, VA -- As a fresh new crop of Marines, sailors, airmen and civilians travel through the gates of Marine Corps Base Quantico, Col. Joseph Murray, Marine Corps Installations National Capital Region - Marine Corps Base Quantico (MCI-NCR MCBQ) commander and Sgt. Maj. Charles Williams, MCINCR-MCBQ sergeant major, welcomed newcomers to the base May 15 at The Clubs at Quantico (TCAQ).

The bi-monthly Welcome Aboard Brief and Fair is held to inform newcomers to the base about services offered and to familiarize them with the surrounding community.

Representatives from programs supporting the base participated including education, family services, recreation, law enforcement, medical services and more. They set up displays and talked to newcomers at TCAQ to help new service members and their families become acclimated to their new duty station.

Anyone is invited to the Welcome Aboard Brief, including those that just want more information on what the base has to offer. Future briefs will be held at TCAQ, 3017 Russell Rd. from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on:

July 17

Sept. 11

Nov. 20

For more information call 703-784-2659. Free child care is available for the brief by calling in advance at 703-784-0674.