Marine Corps aircraft from Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 267, and HMLA-369, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), receive fuel and sonobuoys at a forward arming and refueling point during sonobuoy operations during the Advanced Naval Basing Operations of Summer Fury 21 on San Clemente Island, California, on July 20, 2021. 3rd MAW focuses on rapidly establishing forward operating bases across a broad area from which they can conduct various missions and then disestablishing them just as quickly, relocating and repeating the process elsewhere; to include
Marine Corps aircraft from Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron (HMLA) 267, and HMLA-369, Marine Aircraft Group 39, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), receive fuel and sonobuoys at a forward arming and refueling point during sonobuoy operations during the Advanced Naval Basing Operations of Summer Fury 21 on San Clemente Island, California, on July 20, 2021. 3rd MAW focuses on rapidly establishing forward operating bases across a broad area from which they can conduct various missions and then disestablishing them just as quickly, relocating and repeating the process elsewhere; to include anti-submarine warfare. Summer Fury is an exercise conducted by 3rd MAW in order to maintain and build capability, strength and trust within its units to generate the readiness and lethality needed to deter and defeat adversaries during combat operations as the Marine Corps refines tactics and equipment in accordance with Force Design 2030.
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