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3 unusual facts about United States Marine Corps Aviation


Sea Control Ship

In 1974 she was deployed to the Atlantic Ocean as part of the US Marine Corps.

Solomon Lee Van Meter, Jr.

He, and two other students in his class, were commissioned to First Lieutenant of the Marine Corps Aviation.

Ted Williams Tunnel

The tunnel is named after the former Boston Red Sox baseball player and U.S. Marine air corps veteran Ted Williams.


2008 San Diego F/A-18 crash

Despite criticism, Neubauer was returned to a probationary flight status and allowed to resume training in late April 2009, in a decision made by Lieutenant General George J. Trautman, III, the Deputy Commandant for Aviation.


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