FReeper Canteen ~ Road Trip: Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona ~ 30 JAN 2024

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[laurenmarlowe]

 

 

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Road Trip: Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona

Marine Corps Air Station Yuma or MCAS Yuma is a United States Marine Corps air station. It is the home of multiple squadrons of F-35B Lightning IIs of the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1 (MAWTS-1), Marine Operational Test and Evaluation Squadron 1 (VMX-1) and Marine Fighter Training Squadron 401 (VMFT-401), an air combat adversary squadron of the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing of the Marine Corps Reserve.

MCAS Yuma is currently the busiest air station in the Marine Corps, offering excellent year-round flying conditions and thousands of acres of open terrain for air-to-ground weapons ranges (including the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range and the Barry M. Goldwater Air Force Range- West), and associated restricted airspace for military flight operations.

Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1 (MAWTS-1) is a major aviation command at MCAS Yuma, conducting training for all Marine Corps tactical aviation units, most notably the Weapons and Tactics Instructor (WTI) course. Marine Fighter Training Squadron 401 (VMFT-401) is a Marine Air Reserve squadron also based at MCAS Yuma, containing both active duty and Selected Marine Corps Reservists, providing aerial adversary/aggressor services and dissimilar air combat training (DACT) for all U.S. military services, and selected NATO, Allied, and Coalition partners.

The WTI Course is recognized as the most comprehensive graduate level aviation course of instruction in the world today. It is through the dedication and untiring efforts of its personnel that MAWTS-1 has earned its reputation as the vanguard of Marine aviation.

Learn More About Marine Corps Air Station Yuma HERE!

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[PROCON]

WOO-HOO, let's go on another Road Trip, thanks Lauren!

[radu]

Greetings to all at the Canteen!

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THANK YOU
for your service!

[radu]

Gaaahhhh! Snuck in and beat me by 5 seconds. LOL

[radu]

Howdy, lauren. *HUGZ*

How are things down your way these days? Calming down after all the rounds of crummy weather?

[left that other site]

Hi Everybody!
(((HUGS)))

[null and void]

VMFA 122!

[laurenmarlowe]

WOO HOO PROCON!

FIRST!

[laurenmarlowe]

Howdy radu!

SECOND!

[marktwain]

View of Omni Air International and some Ospreys from Yuma County Fairground looking at MCAS.

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening left that other site!

THIRD!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening to you null and void!

[laurenmarlowe]

Hi there radu!

*HUGS*

Very pleasant here this week, early spring, and just lovin’ it!

Hope you have a great week!

[laurenmarlowe]

Good evening and thanks for the pic marktwain!

[doorgunner69]

“VMFA 122!”

You were part of the squadron?

When?

[Kathy in Alaska]

Thanks, unique, for the road trippers!

~ Road Trip: Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona ~

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[MoochPooch]

Evening, Lauren, Kathy.

[radu]

Ooooo! Lucky you! Some early would be most welcome here! LOL Not in the cards at this point but we’re out of the arctic weather at least.

[radu]

Howdy, Kathy.

Ya reckon the snow is ever gonna stop? Crazy up there last night and today!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Good evening, lauren, and thank you for today's Road Trip: Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona.