Astronaut to Visit Fort Bragg Elementary School Monday
The visit is in conjunction with a multimedia exhibit, "Destination: Station", opening to the public from April 28 through May 20 at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences in Raleigh, N.C.
NASA astronaut and Laurinburg, N.C. native Bill McArthur Jr., will visit Fort Bragg Soldiers and talk with students at Shughart Elementary and Middle schools Monday, April 30. McArthur, who is no stranger to Fort Bragg, he graduated from West Point in June 1973 and was commissioned as a second lieutenant. Following a tour with the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg, he entered the U.S. Army Aviation School in 1975. He was the top graduate of his flight class and was designated an Army aviator in June 1976. McArthur subsequently served as an aeroscout team leader and brigade aviation section commander with the 2nd Infantry Division in the Republic of Korea. In 1978, he was assigned to the 24th Combat Aviation Battalion in Savannah, Ga…
