3rd Marine Aircraft Wing

The Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW) Headquarters (HQ), as the senior Marine aviation command and control agency for the Marine Expeditionary Force (MEF), develops, directs and assesses air operations in the execution of the six functions of Marine aviation. The MAW HQ conducts force generation activities to provide aviation and aviation ground support units.

3rd Marine Aircraft Wing News

Non-Commissioned Officers Initiate Aviation Ground Support Leadership Course

2/21/2023 | 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing

Pacific Marines Conduct Command and Control Exercise

2/07/2023 | U.S. Marine Corps Forces, Pacific

Marine Aircraft Group 16 Thunders Across the Skies During Steel Knight

1/09/2023 | 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing

Marine Air Control Group 38 refines warfighting capabilities

12/29/2022 | 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing

STEEL KNIGHT 23: MAG-39 CAME TO PLAY

12/15/2022 | 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing

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U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Matthew Pleitez, a UH-1Y Venom crew chief with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 367, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Group, surveys the area during a close air support exercise over San Clemente Island, California

U.S. Marine Corps Sgt. Matthew Pleitez, a UH-1Y Venom crew chief with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 367, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd...

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U.S. Marines guide an MV-22B Osprey with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 163, Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 16, 3rd MAW, as it lands on the Military Sealift Command Wright-class aviation logistics support ship SS Curtiss

U.S. Marines guide an MV-22B Osprey with Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron (VMM) 163, Marine Aircraft Group (MAG) 16, 3rd MAW, as it lands on the...

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U.S. Marine aviation ordnance technicians with Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron (VMFAT) 101, Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, transport two training AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missiles to be loaded onto an F/A-18D Hornet at Naval Air Station Key West

U.S. Marine aviation ordnance technicians with Marine Fighter Attack Training Squadron (VMFAT) 101, Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft...

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U.S. Marines with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 367, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Group, participate in a close air support exercise over San Clemente Island, California

U.S. Marines with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 367, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Group, participate in a close air...

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3rd Low Altitude Air Defense (LAAD) Battalion Marines use a Stinger Field Handling Trainer to practice tracking targets during exercise Steel Knight 23.

U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Alonso Guillen (Left) and U.S. Marine Corps Lance Cpl. Spencer Kirkwood, Low Altitude Air Defense gunners with 3rd Low...

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