Boots and Booties baby shower

Photo By Lance Cpl. Cory D. Polom | Food set up for the Boots and Booties Baby Shower hosted by Operation Homefront was served to the expecting and new mothers who attended the shower at Hancock Lodge aboard Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, Oct. 18. The shower hosted 28 mothers who had or was expecting to give birth to a child between the dates of April 17 to April 17, 2012. In addition to mothers from Cherry Point, others came from surrounding Marine Corps installations such as Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and MCAS New River.  

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, NC, UNITED STATES

10.18.2011

Story by Pfc. Cory D. Polom 

II Marine Expeditionary Force   

MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, N.C. - Mothers from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune and MCAS New River were treated to a “Boots and Booties Baby Shower” presented by Operation Homefront at Hancock Lodge aboard Cherry Point, Oct. 18.

“This event is for the families of the E-1 through E-6 community of all branches of government,” said Laura L. Kline, the Navy and Marine liaison with Operation Homefront. “We have been giving this group of military families help with finances and morale workshops since Sept. 11, 2001.” The families received gifts consisting of strollers, highchairs, baby bags and diapers said
Kline.

“These gifts are great ways to help out our junior Marines and their families,” said Carol E. Davis, the wife of Maj. Gen. Jon M. Davis, the commanding general of 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing. “It is a wonderful event that helps support our uptempo schedules.”

All applicants had or will have a baby between April 17, 2011
and April 17, 2012.

• Date Taken: 10.18.2011
• Date Posted: 10.28.2011 11:03
• Story ID: 79188
• Location: MARINE CORPS AIR STATION CHERRY POINT, NC, US