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On 13 March 1985, MCAF Pendleton was re-designated as Marine Corps Air Station effective 1 April 1985. Today, the Air Station supports over 180 helicopters assigned to MAG-39, Marine Aircraft Group 46 Detachment A, and a wide variety of other Marine Corps units and visiting aircraft from other branches of the Armed Forces.
Air Warning Squadron 1 was commissioned on 1 September 1943 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina. [4] It was the first early warning squadron organized under the newly established 1st Marine Air Warning Group [ 5 ] [ 4 ] The squadron's initial Table of organization and equipment had 14 officers and 192 enlisted Marines ...
Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort: Swamp Foxes: Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point: Rams: Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, Marine Corps Air Station New River: Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton: Stampede
The squadron is a Marine Corps test and development unit. Its mission is to conduct operational testing and evaluation of Marine Corps fixed, tiltrotor, and rotary-wing aircraft. The unit was re-designated to VMX-1 (from VMX-22) on 13 May 2016. [88]
The lineage of 1st MLG dates back to 1 July 1947 when it was activated as the 1st Combat Service Group [7] (1st CSG), Service Command, Fleet Marine Force at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii. In the same month, 1st CSG was relocated to Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California.
Marine Aircraft Group 39 (MAG-39) is a United States Marine Corps aviation unit based at Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California that is currently composed of four AH-1Z "Viper" Cobra and UH-1Y "Venom" Huey light attack squadrons, two MV-22 Osprey squadrons, an aviation logistics squadron, a Headquarters Squadron, a Marine Wing Support Squadron and the H-1 Fleet Replacement Squadron.
The damaged battleship USS California, listing to port after being hit by Japanese aerial torpedoes and bombs, is seen off Ford Island during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, U.S. December 7, 1941.
He was survived by his wife, Virginia Katherine Bayler, daughter Virginia Marie who was married to Marine Corps MajGen Hal W. Vincent and three grandchildren. [26] The headquarters for Marine Air Control Squadron 1 (MACS-1) at the 32 Area on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California was named in honor of BGen Bayler on 9 July 1990. [27]