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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]
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]
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]
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.
The National Museum of the Marine Corps in Quantico, Virginia has completed the restoration of an M50A1 Ontos. The Museum of The Marine in Jacksonville, North Carolina has an operational M50A1 Ontos which is not on public display. [citation needed] There is an M50A1 Ontos on outside display at the Navy Facility at China Lake, California ...
MTAC is located at NCIS headquarters in Quantico, Virginia. The MTAC is an outgrowth of the Navy Anti-Terrorist Alert Center (ATAC). The ATAC was established in December 1983 to address the terrorist threat after the bombing of the Marine Corps barracks in Beirut , Lebanon , and the murders of Navy officers in Greece by the Revolutionary ...
The whistleblower, Marine Corps. Lt. Col. Joseph Murphy — who now runs the military branch’s Warfighting Lab based at Quantico, Va. — discovered in July 2021 that the unclassified grant ...
A U.S. Marine fires a Mk 19 40 mm grenade launcher in Quantico, Virginia in September 2000. The Mk 19 is a belt-fed, blowback-operated, air-cooled, crew-served, fully-automatic weapon that is designed not to cook off .