In February 1990, VMR-1 became the first Marine aviation unit to fly to the former Soviet Union when the squadron transported the United States Marine Corps Band to Moscow.
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Station Operations and Engineering Squadron (SOES), Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina was conceived on July 16, 1941 when the United States Congress approved the purchase of a tract of land in the vicinity of the Neuse River in Craven County, North Carolina.