F/A-18C Hornets, with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron (VMFA) 314, takeoff from a Strategic Expeditionary Landing Field (SELF) during Integrated Training Exercise (ITX) 3-17, on Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, Calif., May 4. ITX is a combined-arms exercise enabling units across 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing to operate as an aviation combat element integrated with ground and logistics combat elements as a Marine air-ground task force. More than 650 Marines and 27 aircraft with 3rd MAW are supporting ITX 3-17.

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