Cones line the center of runway 32L as the contractors put the finishing touches on the newly resurfaced runway on Cherry Point Oct. 26. This was the first runway to be worked on since the start of largest paving project aboard the air station since the last repaving project in 1998. The cost of this project when finished will be $10.39 million dollars, which is less than half the cost of an AV-8B Harrier. "People may think spending this amount of money on a runway is absurd and useless," said Mike D. Morgan, the construction manager for Cherry Point's facilities maintenance department. "Think of it from this perspective, if we don't spend this money and we lose even a single Harrier we are losing more than $20 million dollars to buy a new one. With just one successful month of have a foreign object damage free landing space, this project pays for itself."