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In use by the military since 1917, Miramar served briefly as a Marine Corpsair station from 1945 to 1947 before transitioning to the Navy. Following aBase Realignment and Closure Committee recommendation in 1993, theinstallation was transferred back to the Corps and on Oct. 1, 1997, became aMarine Corps air station once again. Today, MCAS Miramar is the West Coasthome of Marine aviation.MCAS Miramar is home to the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, whose roughly 17,000Marines operate the F/A-18 Hornet, KC-130J Hercules, CH-53 Super Stallionand MV-22 Osprey from the air station.MCAS Miramar is home to a number of the military's most state-of-the-arttraining facilities. Importantly, many of these facilities are not only usedto train military personnel, but are also shared with local law enforcementpersonnel and personnel from other federal, county and city agencies fortraining.The majority of MCAS Miramar's training facilities are located aboard EastMiramar, a 15,000 acre spread of hilly, chaparral desert that contains fivesmall-arms ranges, a nuclear, biological, and chemical training facility,and an aircraft fire rescue training site. The land itself supports trainingin land navigation, convoy operations, and related ground trainingexercises.MCAS Miramar Community:MCAS Miramar hosts and supports a variety of community outreach events, fromfun-runs and charity events to base tours. These events give San Diegans anopportunity to interact face-to-face with the Marines who share theircommunity.As an award-winning, world-class air show, the Miramar Air Show is thehighlight of the air station's annual schedule of activities. The thrilling,three-day event draws hundreds of thousands from around the world to witnessthe finest in civilian and military aviation. The show is free for allattendees, but funds raised though premium seating and corporate sponsors goto quality of life projects and programs to further morale and welfare ofservice members and families assigned to the air station.
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