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Married Colonels to assume command of Marine units

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Col. Amy Ebitz will assume command of Headquarters and Support Battalion, Marine Corps Installations East at Camp LeJeune at Friday, July 19 at 10:00 am. Her husband will be there. Then at 2:00 pm Col. Curtis Ebitz will assume command of Marine Corps Air Station New River. His wife will be there. It will be a busy day for Colonels Curtis and Amy Ebitz who have been married since 2003. They have two children ages 12 and 8 who will also have busy days as they’ll attend both command ceremonies.  The Colonels Ebitz come to the region after recent assignments in Washington D.C. Their new commands will be familiar ground… Col. Curtis Ebitz was assigned to New River previously in 1997 and 2004 while Col. Amy Ebitz was assigned to Camp LeJeune in 1999 and 2004.

George Olsen is a 1977 Havelock High School graduate. He received his B.A. in Broadcast Journalism from the University of South Carolina in 1982 where he got his first taste of non-commercial radio working for their student station WUSC. After graduation he worked about five years in commercial radio before coming to work at Public Radio East where he has remained since outside of a nearly 3-year stint as jazz and operations coordinator at WUAL in Tuscaloosa, Alabama in the early 1990s. On his return to eastern North Carolina he hosted classical music for Public Radio East before moving into the Morning Edition host position and now can be heard on All Things Considered. He also hosts and produces The Sound, five hours of Americana, Roots Rock and Contemporary Folk weekday evenings on PRE Public Radio East News & Ideas, and is a news and feature producer for Public Radio East.