2nd LAR celebrates heritage with renovated room

Photo By Sgt. Michelle Reif | Gunnery Sgt. Christopher Hall, the 2nd Light Armored Reconnaissance Battalion training chief and native of Jacksonville, N.C., poses for a picture holding a photograph of what the room used to look like before being renovated into the 2nd LAR heritage room. Hall personally did most of the labor to renovate the old warehouse into a room which houses the battalion’s collection of memorabilia and will be used as a place for the battalion’s staff noncommissioned officers and officers to receive classes, bond and build camaraderie.  

CAMP LEJEUNE, NC, UNITED STATES

03.13.2015

Story by Cpl. Michelle Reif 

II Marine Expeditionary Force   

“A heritage room is an assembly of all of the memorabilia that 2nd LAR has accumulated since its inception in 1983,” said Gunnery Sgt. Christopher Hall, the training chief for 2nd LAR and native of Jacksonville, North Carolina.

Items displayed in the room include awards and trophies the battalion has won, photographs, and donated items from Operations Desert Storm and Desert Shield.

The building used to be a warehouse, Hall explained. Hall, with the help of a few fellow Marines, did all of the labor to renovate the room himself, using his own tools and materials, over the course of about six months.

The room will be used as a place for the staff noncommissioned officers and officers of the battalion to receive classes, bond and build camaraderie.

• Date Taken: 03.13.2015
• Date Posted: 03.13.2015 15:14
• Story ID: 156977
• Location: CAMP LEJEUNE, NC, US
• Hometown: JACKSONVILLE, NC, US