Marine Air Support Squadron 3 (MASS-3), is a United States Marine Corps aviation command and control unit that provides the Direct Air Support Center (DASC) for the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force. They are based out of the 32 Area on Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, California and fall under the command of Marine Air Control Group 38 and the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.
Sergeant Howard J. Johnson, with MASS-3 Det A, strolls along with what’s left of an enemy flag he captured when an estimated 40 enemy attacked his unit’s position four miles west of Da Nang.
IRAQ – Lance Cpl. John A. Marcogliese of MASS-3 stands guard at one of several Olympic stadiums in Baghdad during the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
MASS-3 logo from Iraq 2006
Marines from MASS-3, Air Support Liaison Team, deployed to MOB Lashkar Gah in support of the UK's Operation Herrick XVI
Marine Aircraft Group 43
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Marine Aircraft Group 43 (MAG-43) was a fixed wing aviation group in the United States Marine Corps Reserve based at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Willow Grove, Pennsylvania.
MAG-43 Marines manage the vertical plotting board inside the Air Defense Control Center during the Battle of Okinawa.
MACG-2 re-enlistment sign on K-3 Air Base during the Korean War.