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Marine Corps Air Station Futenma or MCAS Futenma (Japanese: 海兵隊普天間航空基地, Hepburn: Kaiheitai Futenma Kōkū Kichi) A [2] (ICAO: ROTM) is a United States Marine Corps base located in Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan, 5 NM (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) northeast [1] B of Naha, on the island of Okinawa.
Aerial view of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in 2010. Over the last five decades there have been various plans for the relocation of Marine Corps Air Station Futenma (海兵隊普天間航空基地, Kaiheitai Futenma Kōkū Kichi), a United States Marine Corps base located within the urban area of Ginowan City (pop. 93,661) in Okinawa, Japan.
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Naval Base Okinawa, now Naval Facility Okinawa, is a number of bases built after the Battle of Okinawa by United States Navy on Okinawa Island, Japan.The naval bases were built to support the landings on Okinawa on April 1, 1945, and the troops fighting on Okinawa.
The Squadron's primary mission at that time was to provide all essential AGS requirements to a designated rotary-wing component of a Marine Aviation Combat Element. Additionally, an implied mission was to supplement air base facilities and services aboard Marine Corps Air Station (MCAS) Futenma.
[citation needed] The Group moved from Vietnam to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan in 1971, and then to the Marine Corps Air Station Futenma, Okinawa, Japan, in 1975. Since the end of the war in Vietnam, MACG-18 has assumed a major role in joint, combined and Marine air-ground training and contingency operation in the Western Pacific.
MTACS-18 was formally decommissioned on 9 June 2021 in a ceremony at MCAS Futenma. MTACS-18 is the first of four Marine Tactical Air Control Squadrons that will be decommissioned as part of the Marine Corps Force Design 2030 plan. Going forward, MACG-18 is responsible for maintaining the TACC capability for 1st MAW. [2]
Travis Air Force Base Aviation Museum, Fairfield; USS Hornet Sea, Air & Space Museum, Alameda; USS Midway Museum, San Diego; Warbirds West Air Museum, El Cajon – closed [44] Western Museum of Flight, Torrance; Wings of History Museum, San Martin; Yanks Air Museum, Chino; Yanks Air Museum Annex, Greenfield [45]