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Arizona
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Marine Corps Air Station Yuma
MCAS Yuma is one of the Marine Corps' premier aviation training bases. With access to 2.8 million acres of bombing and aviation training ranges and superb flying weather, MCAS Yuma supports 80 percent of the Corps' air-to-ground aviation training
California
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Marine Corps Base Camp Camp Pendleton
MCB Pendleton is one of the Department of Defense's busiest installations and offers a broad spectrum of training facilities for many active and reserve Marine, Army and Navy units, as well as national, state and local agencies.
Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center29 Palms
29 Palms, Twentynine Stumps, or simply the Stumps, is the United States Marine Corps' largest base. A futuristic version of the Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center is featured at the start of the movie Doom.
Marine Corps Air Station Miramar
MCAS Miramar is best known as the former location of the United States Navy Fighter Weapons School (NFWS), its TOPGUN training program, and the movie of the same name. It is located about 10 miles north of downtown San Diego, California.
Marine Corps Logistics Base Barstow
MCLB Barstow was established as the Marine Corps Depot of Supplies in 1942. The base is within 150 miles of the two major seaports of Los Angeles and San Diego.
Marine Corps Recruit Depot San Diego
MCRD San Diego is a military installation in San Diego, California. MCRD San Diego's main mission is the initial training of enlisted male recruits living west of the Mississippi River. Over 21,000 recruits are trained each year.
Georgia
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Marine Corps Logistics Base Albany
MCLB Albany is located in Albany, Georgia. The primary mission of the units on the base is to rebuild and repair ground-combat and combat-support equipment and to support installations on the East Coast of the United States.
Hawaii
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Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay
Originally Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay, MCBH Kaneohe Bay was attacked approximately 9 minutes prior to the attack on Pearl Harbor. The base is sited on the Mokapu Peninsula which connects to the mainland near the cities of Kaneohe and Kailua.
North Carolina
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Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune
Since September 1941, Camp Lejeune has been the home of "Expeditionary Forces in Readiness."Today, as in the past, Camp Lejeune's mission remains the same - to maintain combat-ready units for expeditionary deployment.
Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point
MCAS Cherry Point is an airfield located in Havelock, North Carolina, in the eastern part of the state. It was built in 1941, and was commissioned in 1942 and is currently home to the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing.
Marine Corps Air Station New River
MCAS New River is a helicopter base in Jacksonville, North Carolina. The base was originally 29 parcels of land, a simple stretch of tobacco farm that was purchased for $64,502 in 1941. It is the only Marine Corps base with the new MV-22 Osprey.
South Carolina
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Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort
MCAS Beaufort hosts all active duty USMC F/A-18 air operations on the East Coast, assigned to MAG-31. The mission of the Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort is to provide support as an operational base for MAG-31, and the support units.
MCRD Parris Island
Parris Island , South Carolina, consists of 8,095 acres, of which only 3,262 are habitable. The remaining acres are primarily salt marsh. Enlisted male training began there in November 1915. Enlisted female training began in February 1949.
Virginia
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Henderson Hall
Henderson Hall is a military installation of the United States Marine Corps located in Arlington, Virginia near the Pentagon, on the southern edge of the Arlington National Cemetery and next to Fort Myer.
Quantico
The Corps's Combat Development Command, which develops strategies for Marine combat and makes up most of the community of over 12,000 military and civilian personnel (including families) is based there. It has a budget of around $300 million and is the home of the Marine Corps Officer Candidates School.
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