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Beginning on 15 April 1962, Marine helicopter squadrons, associated maintenance units and air traffic control detachments deployed to Sóc Trăng Airfield in the Mekong Delta and later to Da Nang Air Base rotating every four months in order to provide assault support and CASEVAC assistance during combat operations.
The unit was commissioned on 1 January 1952 as Marine Air Traffic Control Unit 7 (MATCU-7) under MGCIS-7. Redesignated as MATCU-31 under MAG-31 on 1 April 1952. The unit was again redesignated as MATCU-11 under MAG-11 on 2 August 1953. On 8 February 1954 the unit received its final designation as Marine Air Traffic Control Unit 60 (MATCU-60).
Marine Air Control Squadron 4 was the first unit to utilize a TAOC in combat when it was established at the Monkey Mountain Facility on Monkey Mountain east of Danang. The squadron began operations on July 6, 1967. [6] MACS-4 provided positive radar control for the Marine Corps' area of operations in the I Corps Tactical Zone. On January 13 ...
Air Warning Squadron 13 was commissioned 5 May 1944 at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina and assigned to 1st Marine Air Warning Group, 9th Marine Aircraft Wing. [2] On 12 August 1944 the squadron moved to Naval Air Station Vero Beach , Florida to assist in the air control program and give squadron personnel experience in ...
The Marine Air Traffic Control Squadrons (MATCS) were formed through the consolidation of regionally aligned Marine Air Traffic Control Units, underneath each Marine Air Wing. The first MATCS was commissioned in 1976 with the last one commissioning in the reserves in 1980.
[14]: 25 On 16 April Marine Air Support Squadron 2 (MASS-2) was deployed to Da Nang AB to provide tactical air control for Marine aviation units and the following day VMCJ-1 equipped with EF-10Bs deployed to the base. The USMC fixed wing units were designated Marine Aircraft Group 11 (MAG-11). [14]: 27
The TAOC performs real-time direction and control of all anti-air warfare operations, to include manned interceptors and surface-to-air weapons. The TAOC's parent unit is the Marine Air Control Squadron (MACS). [8] Ground Based Air Defense - The LAAD Battalions provide close-in, low altitude, surface-to-air weapons fires in defense of Marine ...
On 28 July 1965, President Lyndon B. Johnson announced that the U.S. would increase the number of its forces in South Vietnam from 75,000 to 125,000. The arrival of additional USMC and United States Air Force squadrons at Da Nang AB led to severe overcrowding at the base and the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing (I MAW) began looking for an alternative site for the helicopter squadrons of MAG-16.