Story by Sky Laron | Marine Corps Systems Command | 09.13.2018
Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity welcomed Vietnam veterans from Marine Air Support Squadron 3 to MCTSSA’s headquarters aboard Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton this summer. MCTSSA hosted the veterans and their family members, who hail from all over the country, as part of a 50th reunion tour that took them to various units across base....
Story by Sky Laron | Marine Corps Systems Command | 07.12.2018
Technical experts from Marine Corps Tactical Systems Support Activity tested various communications systems in support of Marine Corps operating forces during ongoing exercises in May and June. MCTSSA engineers and Marines with 5th Battalion, 11th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division, evaluated pathways for passing digital targeting information from joint systems to the M142 High-Mobility......
Story by Lance Cpl. Ethan Pumphret | Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron-1 | 10.13.2017
MARINE CORPS AIR STATION YUMA, Ariz. – Marines from Marine Aviation Weapons and Tactics Squadron 1 conducted a MACCS (Marine Air Command and Control System) Integrated Simulated Training Exercise and Offensive Anti-Air Warfare Exercise for Weapons and Tactics Instructors course 1-18 at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Az. MISTEX was conducted Sept. 30. OAAW was conducted on Oct. 13....
Story by Cpl. Kimberlyn Patterson | Marine Corps Air Station Miramar | 03.17.2017
Marine Air Control Group (MACG) 38 conducted a Marine Air Command and Control System (MACCS) integrated training exercise, named Lightning Sword, at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, California; MCAS Camp Pendleton, California; and MCAS Yuma, Arizona, March 6 to 17....
Story by Cpl. Travis Gershaneck | Marine Corps Air Station Yuma | 10.09.2014
Camouflaged against the barren Arizona desert of Range 50, a small cluster of tents sit inconspicuously as generators hum around them. Inside the main Lightweight Multipurpose Shelter, it resembled something from a science fiction movie: Real-time topographical digital maps on two giant screens displaying every allied aircraft in the battle space with laptops and consoles lining the room,......
Story by Lance Cpl. Daniel Valle | III Marine Expeditionary Force | 08.17.2012
At first glance, one may think calling for air support, aerial refueling, landing clearance, medical evacuation and air delivery is something they would see only in a video game. However, this is no game....
