Officials with Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point said Friday that residents near the air station and its outlying airfields can expect multiple military training operations throughout May.
Ground training will be conducted at Marine Outlying Field Atlantic, May 12-16 and will include improvised explosive device simulator that produce sounds mimicking explosives detonations, officials said.
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While the operations will go as late as midnight, the repetitions of IED sounds are only planned to occur between 8:30 a.m. and 4 p.m., daily.
Neighbors can also expect an increase in military vehicular and aviation activity in and around the outlying field during these periods.
Special boat operations will be conducted in the waterways in and around MCAS Cherry Point, proper, coupled with surface and direct live-fire training at bombing targets BT-9 and BT-11, Brandt Island and Piney Island, respectively, through May 15.
These operations will also go as late as midnight.
The Explosive Ordnance Disposal units may be conducting explosive ordnance training at the MCAS Cherry Point range at varying times throughout the month. Residents who live on and around the installation can expect to hear the occasional loud explosion.
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