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The National Museum of the Marine Corps is the historical museum of the United States Marine Corps. Located in Triangle, Virginia near Marine Corps Base Quantico, the museum opened on November 10, 2006, and is now one of the top tourist attractions in the state, drawing over 500,000 people annually. [1]
The Marine Corps Air-Ground Museum was located at Brown Field, Marine Corps Base Quantico, Quantico, Virginia.It housed a wide variety of historic Marine Corps vehicles/tanks (both wheeled and tracked), equipment, artillery pieces and aircraft (both fixed wing (airplanes) and rotary wing (helicopters)) to trace the evolution and significance of the Marine Air-Ground Team. [1]
In the early 20th century, the Marine Corps displayed historical items such as captured weapons and flags in war trophy rooms at the Headquarters Marine Corps and the Marine Corps Barracks in Washington, D.C. [2] In 1940, the Marine Corps established a proto-museum on the second deck of Little Hall at Marine Corps Base Quantico. [3]
Marine Observation Squadron 1 (VMO-1) was commissioned on 1 July 1937 at Marine Corps Base Quantico. [1] They were redesignated Marine Observation Squadron 151 ( VMO-151 ) on 1 July 1941. The squadron left for San Diego , California in December 1941 with the rest of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing , but returned to MCB Quantico in January 1942.
Beginning in the early 1950s the Marine Corps aligned itself with the Navy and their development of surface-to-air missiles (SAMs). The Marine Corps retained both flak weapons and SAMs throughout the 1950s until the fielding of the MIM-23 Hawk Missile System in 1960. The HAWK Missile was employed by Light Antiaircraft Missile (LAAM) battalions ...
Richard Treat Spooner (born 10 September 1926) is a former officer in the United States Marine Corps and founder and former proprietor of The Globe and Laurel Restaurant in Stafford, Virginia, just a few miles south of the main gate of Marine Corps Base Quantico. He served in the Marine Corps for over 29 years. [1]
Austin Kroll's criminal record will be cleared once he serves probation under the Holmes Youthful Trainee Act
Marine Corps Base Quantico (commonly abbreviated MCB Quantico) is a United States Marine Corps installation located near Triangle, Virginia, covering nearly 55,148 acres (86.169 sq mi; 22,318 ha; 223.18 km 2) of southern Prince William County, Virginia, northern Stafford County, and southeastern Fauquier County. Used primarily for training ...