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North Carolina 34°54′03″N 076°52′51″W / 34.90083°N 76.88083°W / 34.90083; -76.88083 ( Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune
Specialty military air operations are located at this facility, as the installation has two usable landing fields, and plans for a third. The FAA Charlotte Sectional Aeronautical Chart identifies this area as Special Use Airspace R-5301, which is continuously restricted from general aviation traffic from the surface to an altitude of 14,000 feet above Mean Sea Level.
The ground combat element (GCE) consists of those combat and combat support units whose primary mission is to, (1) engage with and destroy the enemy by fire and/or maneuver, and/or shock effect, performed by infantry, field artillery, and tank units, (2) provide close battlefield support to other GCE units by assault amphibian, combat assault, light armored reconnaissance, reconnaissance, and ...
The camp is situated in the town of Kin, near the northern shore of Kin Bay, and is the second-northernmost major installation on Okinawa, with Camp Schwab to the north. The camp houses approximately 6,000 Marines nowadays, [ 1 ] and is part of Marine Corps Base Camp Butler , which itself is not a physical base and comprises all Marine Corps ...
The 31st MEU is based at Camp Hansen, Marine Corps Base Camp Smedley D. Butler, Okinawa, Japan. The 31st MEU is the only permanently forward-deployed MEU, and provides a flexible and lethal force ready to perform a wide range of military, humanitarian, and diplomatic operations as the premier crisis response force in the Indo-Pacific region.
As part of the Force Design 2030 modernization, the battalion redesignated and reorganized as Combat Logistics Battalion 12 on 30 August 2030 and relocated back to Camp Hansen in June 2024. [4] On 3 October 2024, the battalion redesignated as 12th Littoral Logistics Battalion and assigned to 12th Marine Littoral Regiment , 3d Marine Division.
The Marine Corps Installations Command (MCICOM) was created on October 1, 2011 to oversee U.S. Marine Corps installations (including the installations' regional commanders) through direct oversight, policy creation and coordination, and resource prioritization.
The 12th Littoral Anti-Air Battalion was reactivated on October 1, 2024, and held its activation ceremony on December 5, 2024, at Camp Hansen, Okinawa, Japan. This new battalion is tasked with providing air defense, air surveillance and early warning and air control [2]