Getting more military contract dollars for North Carolina has been a major state priority. For 20 years, state agencies and private groups have worked to build up its ability to do that.
The military is important to North Carolina. We have more than 147,000 military and civilian Department of Defense personnel, up 9% in the past dozen years. That is the fourth-largest military footprint among the states.
Fort Bragg is home to 10% of the U.S. Army and sprawls over four counties in the Sandhills. Camp Lejeune in Jacksonville is the largest Marine Corps base on the East Coast. The Marines also have air stations at Cherry Point in Havelock and New River, next to Camp Lejeune.
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FORT BRAGG Kevin Griess spent more than 20 years in the Air Force but was never assigned to an installation in North Carolina during those two decades.
Now, he’s spending his first time in North Carolina helping oversee the nation’s most populated Army post as Fort Bragg’s newest deputy garrison commander.
He replaced Justin Mitchell, who retired in December after serving in the position since 2014.
The deputy garrison commander is similar to a city manager.
He or she is a civilian who works with the garrison commander and command sergeant major to develop policies and procedures for the day-to-day operations of the installation.
By May, Nia Raines will have earned two.
The 18-year-old will soon graduate from Cumberland Polytechnic High School. She already has one degree under her belt in December she completed work for her associate’s degree from Fayetteville Technical Community College. Graduation ceremonies for both schools are scheduled for next month.
Nia’s high school is located on the FTCC campus, and students there earn credits toward college. But she went the extra mile, taking summer courses, to earn her degree in a two-year program. She was just 17 at the time.
“I took a lot of summer classes to help me with that, to get me on the fast track,” says Nia, who has maintained a 3.8 GPA in high school. “It just accumulated. I worked very hard.”