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    Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 311 (VMFA-311) is a United States Marine Corps fighter attack squadron consisting of F-35C Lightning II. Known as the "Tomcats"...
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    Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314 (VMFA-314) is a United States Marine Corps F-35C Lightning II squadron. The squadron, known as the "Black Knights",...
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  • Attack Squadron 242". United States Marine Corps. Retrieved 23 April 2008. "VMFA-311 REACTIVATION". United States Marine Corps. Retrieved 17 April 2023. "Marine...
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    Japan VMFA-121 VMFA-242 MCAS Yuma, Arizona VMFA-122 VMFA-211 VMFA-214 VMFA-225 MCAS Beaufort, South Carolina VMFAT-501 VMFA-533 MCAS Cherry Point VMFA-542...
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    Squadron 232 (VMFA-232) – F/A-18C/D Hornet Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 311 (VMFA-311) – F-35C Lightning II Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314 (VMFA-314) –...
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    Gabriele (21 October 2020). "VMA-311 Deactivated as USMC Retires Iconic Harrier jump jet. Tomcats Will Reactivate as VMFA-311 Operating The F-35C Lightning...
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    squadrons: VMFAT-502 "Flying Nightmares" F-35C Lightning II squadrons: VMFA-311 "Tomcats" VMFA-314 "Black Knights" Support squadrons: Marine Aviation Logistics...
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    operation as of 2023 VMFA-112 1992–present (Marine Air Reserve) VMFA-232 1989–present VMFA-312 1987–present VMFA-323 1982–present VMFA(AW)-224 1993–present...
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    A-4 Skyhawk pilots were attached to the U.S. Marine Corps VMFA-311 (Marine Attack Squadron 311), Marine Aircraft Group 12, at Chi Lang in 1970. RNZAF personnel...
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  • and October 2009 VMFA(AW)-242 (F/A-18D) between August 2004 and January 2005 VMFA(AW)-224 (F/A-18D) between January and August 2005 VMFA-142 (F/A-18A+)...
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    began close air support missions (CAS) and VMFA-314, VMFA-232 Red Devils, VMFA-323 Death Rattlers and VMFA-542 Bengals soon arrived at the primitive airfield...
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    Marine Aircraft Group 13 from Chu Lai Air Base saw the relocation of VMFA-115 and VMA-311 to Da Nang AB as part of MAG-11.: 271  During 1970 Marine engineers...
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  • the Museum". VMFA website. October 24, 2013. Retrieved March 18, 2019. The Largest Expansion in the Museum's History ... On May 1, 2010, VMFA completed a...
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    the AV-8 Harrier II; while Marine Fighter-Attack (VMFA) and Marine (All Weather) Fighter-Attack (VMFA(AW)) squadrons, respectively fly both the single-seat...
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    flown from Chu Lai by aircraft from Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314 (VMFA-314) on 11 September 1970. From 1967 the 54th Medical Detachment (Helicopter...
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    An F/A-18D Hornet from VMFA(AW)-225....
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    (LCE) and the Aviation Combat Element (ACE) October 2013 – April 2014 (14.1) VMFA(AW)-225 "CE" – F/A-18D between October 2013 and April 2014. April 2014 –...
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    Attack Squadron 121. When McGrath and fellow Marine pilot Jaden Kim joined VMFA-121, they became the first female aviators to join the squadron. During this...
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    mission they were supported by the “Sumos” and F/A-18s from the “Bats” of VMFA-242. During Fish Hook 2001, the squadron also supported Landing Force Cooperation...
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    (Now flying AV-8B Harrier II) VMA-225 Vagabonds (Now VMFA-225 operating the F/A-18 Hornet) VMA-311 Tomcats (Now flying F-35C Lightning II) VMA-322 Fighting...
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    November 2020, the Dambusters hosted United States Marine Corps F-35Bs from VMFA-211 who deployed to RAF Marham to work up on HMS Queen Elizabeth ahead of...
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  • head-on with F-4B BuNo 151001 of VMFA-542, MAG-13, from Chu Lai (both crew killed), while refuelling two F-4Bs of VMFA-314 over South Vietnam near Phu...
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  • 13 July A United States Marine Corps F-4S Phantom II, BuNo. 153819, of VMFA-251, upgraded from an F-4J-30-MC, crashed into the Atlantic Ocean off South...
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    24 March 1973 Air Wing Squadron Aircraft Type CVW-8 VF-74 F-4J Phantom II VMFA-333 F-4J Phantom II VA-82 A-7C Corsair II VA-86 A-7C Corsair II VA-35 A-6A...
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    Negesebus VMFA-124 and 213 U.S. Marine Corps 16 Feb-11 May 1943 and 3–22 January 1945 USS Essex, Philippines, Formosa, South China Sea VMFA 211 and VMFA 451...
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  • Presumptive finding of death January 5 Burnes, Robert W 1st Lieutenant USMC VMFA-542 Operation Steel Tiger Laos, Savannakhet Province Radar intercept officer...
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  • Presumptive finding of death January 24 Booze, Delmar G 2nd Lieutenant USMC VMFA-314 South Vietnam, Thừa Thiên Province Bombardier/navigator on an F-4B that...
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    squadrons and 230 aircraft. The oldest squadron in the Corps, known today as VMFA-232, was commissioned on 1 September 1925, as VF-3M. In World War II, the...
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  • Maine. 2 January USMC McDonnell-Douglas F-4J Phantom II, BuNo 155506, of VMFA-333, crashes on approach to NAS Oceana, Virginia. Both crew eject safely...
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    as Executive Officer for Marine Aircraft Group 14, Commanding Officer of VMFA(AW)-224 and Commanding Officer again for VMAT(AW)-202. He attended the Industrial...
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