Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton

Established in 1942, MCAS Camp Pendleton is located north of and parallel to Vandegrift Road in Area 23. The air station currently maintains and operates facilities designed to support flight operations of a Marine aircraft wing, a Marine reserve aircraft wing, a Marine expeditionary force, as well as commanding training in the Camp Pendleton air-ground training complex. It provides air traffic control services and facilities, aircraft fire fighting and rescue services, weather service support to Camp Pendleton, and hot and cold refueling and defueling. It encompasses 410 acres, including a 6,000-foot runway, taxiways, and parking aprons. MCAS Camp Pendleton is also known as Munn Field, named after Lt. Gen. John C. (Toby) Munn, a distinguished Marine aviator who served from 1927 to 1964. The airfield was initially used to train Marine aviators during World War II. It functioned as a secondary runway for the much larger MCAS El Toro, and as a dispersal field in the case of attack....