Marine Corps activates new base on Guam

| December 5, 2020


 Marine Aircraft Wing and Marine Aircraft Group exercises and training on Guam and within the Mariana Island Range Complex demonstrate the Aviation Combat Element capabilities of the Marine Air-Ground Task Force. (Lance Cpl. Antonio Rubio/Marine Corps)

Marine Corps Base Camp Blaz*, Guam, became the Corps’ first new base in nearly 70 years.

Camp Blaz will soon be home to nearly 5,000 Marines of III Marine Expeditionary Force, currently based on Okinawa.

Odd note, in early 2019 part of the base’s construction was halted when prehistoric tools and pottery fragments were found on the site.

Our own Boomer of Sunday fame sends.

The new base will certainly cause China to to take note, exactly as intended.
Thanks, Boomer.

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Category: "Your Tax Dollars At Work", China, Guest Link, Marine Corps

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Pecos Phil

When will it tip over? 3..2..1..

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KoB

Damn Pecos, ya beat me to it. I was over in the linky reading up on the Genr’l. Noticed that in addition to his other duties, that Devil Dog was an Army (Ft Sill) School Trained Gun Bunny. All God’s Chill’ren wants to snatch a lanyard.

Rep Hank Johnson musta approved some extry Base Construction monies to keep Guam from flipping them Marines into the Ocean.

Does this new Base on Guam mean that some of the Marines will be leaving Okinawa? That is something that the Japanese Grubmint has been pushing for awhile now.

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Hack Stone

Not the government, just a few left leaning local politicians and the Japanese Communist Party. The people saying to kick out the Marines think they can make it up in tourism dollars. All the tourists visiting Okinawa come to the island to stand at the end of the Kadena flightline to take photos.

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Cameron

From what I can see on the island of Honshu, not many people seem to pay attention to the Japanese Communist Party. My mom and I saw them once doing a small political rally in Yokosuka where we live and no one seemed to care about what they had to say. Possibly because there’s a lot of business owners in Yokosuka, never mind the rest of the island of Honshu, many of which receive business from Fleet Activities Yokosuka.

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rgr1480

Nah, …. just a bunch of noise about the Ospreys. Is the whole wing leaving from Oki?

Tested and improved by NASA! I had a tech-area lead who worked on it back in the 70s.

…Bell built two prototypes of the XV-15, which were again extensively tested and refined by the engineers of NASA Ames and the U.S. Army, Air Mobility Research and Development Laboratory, at Moffett Field, California. The Government XV-15 Tiltrotor Research Aircraft Project Team was located at Ames. Some ground and flight testing also took place at Dryden (now Armstrong) Flight Research Center, Edwards, California. NASA engineers were involved in every aspect of the design and testing of the XV-15, from the computational fluid dynamics behind the initial design to studies of the best way to present cockpit data to the pilots. The XV-15 was unveiled to the world at the 1981 Paris Air Show, and its success there paved the way for the V-22 Osprey, which is in service today with the U.S. Navy, Marines and Air Force. …

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/ames/us-army-and-nasa-celebrating-50-years-of-tiltrotor-innovation

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USMC Steve

All Marine artillerymen are trained at Ft Sill. That is to my knowledge the only school of artillery in existence in America.

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26Limabeans

Didn’t we just pull the Betty’s outta there?
Marines recaptured it for us in WW2 so let them have it.
And a fitting place for “Tilt” rotor aircraft.

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Bill

Why does the film narrator say “corpse”?

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Poetrooper

He’s an Obama Cult follower…

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