Marine Corps Units

1st
  Separate Marine Battalion
Deployed: Cavite, P.I. 1941
Deployed: Wawa Beach near Nasugbu in Batangas Province, about 100 miles south of Cavite, P.I., 4 December 1941
Equipment: Two (2) SCR-268's (1941), SCR-270B (1941)
History: Link
  Air Warning Group
1 July 1943
  Air Warning Squadron
Engebi, Island, Marshall Islands
20 February 1944
Okinawa
Commander: Captain W.D. Felders
Notes: Combined with 11th AWS to become MGCIS-2
  Marine Group Contro Intercept
Deployed: Korea 1950 - April 1955
Equipement: CPS-5; MPS-4
Redesignated: MACS April 1954
 

Tactical Air Control Squadron One
Korea (early 1950 - ?)
Pohang
Inchon
Wonsan
Hamhung
Hungnam
Commander:
1950 - ? Commander Ralph W. Arndt

  Marine Air Support Radar Team
Korea
Equipment: MPQ-14
Marine Air Control Squadron
Yuma , Arizona
Deployed: Iraq
Equipment: TPS-15, TPS-17, TPS-22, TPS-34, TPS-37, UPS-1
Subordiante to: MACG 38, 1st Marine Division ~ No Regiment
Notes: (detachments at Miramar and Camp Pendleton and 29 Palms)
2nd
  Defense Battalion
Deployed: the Gilberts
  Detachment, Marine Air Warning Squadron-2
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Battle of Guam, 1944
  Marine Ground Contol Intercept Squadron
August 1946
Formed: from the 1st and 11th AWS's
Equipment: CPS-5; MPS-4
Redesignated: MACS April 1954
  Tactical Air Control Squadron
Korea (August 1950)
Commander:
Cdr F.C. Duttweiler
  Marine Air Control Group
Korea (1952)
Commander:
Capt. I.J. Schwartz
Marine Air Control Squadron
Equipment: TPS-15, TPS-17, TPS-22, TPS-34, TPS-37, UPS-1
Subordinate to: MACG 28, 2st Marine Aircraft Wing
3rd
  Defense Battalion
Deployed: Guatalcanal, August 1942
Deployed: Bougainville
  Marine Ground Contol Intercept Squadron
Deployed: Korea 5 March 1951
Equipment: CPS-5; MPS-4
Redesignated: MACS April 1954
  Marine Air Control Squadron
Equipment: TPS-15, TPS-17, TPS-22, TPS-34, TPS-37, UPS-1, TPS-32 (1968)
4th
  Defense Battalion
Activated: 5 May 1944
Cherry Point, North Carolina as Air Warning Squadron 13
Deployed: Vella Lavella Island
  Battery B
Midway
 

Detachment
Bataan

Subordinate to: 1st Marine Air Warning Group, 9th Marine Aircraft Wing
Redesignated: Marine Ground Control Intercept Squadron 4 1 August 1946
Subordinate to: Marine Air Control Group 2, Marine Air, West Coast
Deactivated: 30 April 1947
Reactivated: 30 June 1951 Santa Ana, California
Subordinate to: Marine Air Control Group 3, Air Fleet Marine Force, Pacific

  Marine Ground Contol Intercept Squadron
Equipment: CPS-5; MPS-4
  Tactical Air Control Squadron
Korea
Commander:
Cdr. R.M. Deavitt
Marine Air Control Squadron
Redesignated: 4 15 February 1954
Relocated: July 1959 Iwakuni, Japan
Subordinate to: Marine Wing Headquarters Group, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing.
Relocated: October 1960 Santa Ana, California
Subordinate to: 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.
Relocated: September 1961 Iwakuni, Japan
Subordinate to: 1st Marine Aircraft Wing.
Deployed: Thailand May-July 1962
Relocated: October 1962 Santa Ana, California
Subordinate to: 3rd Marine Aircraft wing.
Relocated: October 1963 Iwakuni, Japan
Subordinate to: 1st Marine Aircraft wing.
Relocated: October 1964 Santa Ana, California
Subordinate to: 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing.
Relocated: October 1965 to Camp Pendleton, California
Deployed: 1965 Da Nang, Vietnam
Replaced: MAC-7
Subordinate to: 1st Marine Aircraft Wing.
Reassigned: August 1967 Marine Air Control Group 18, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing.
Relocated: January 1971 Santa Ana, California.
Deactivated: 31 January 1971
Reactivated: 15 June 1971 MCAS Futenma, Okinawa, Japan
Equipment: TPS-15, TPS-17, MPS-11, TPS-22, TPS-34, TPS-37, UPS-1
5th
  Defense Battalion
Funafuti
  Detachment A
Deployed: Tulagi 8 September 1942
6th
  Air Warning Squadron
Okinawa
  Tactical Air Control Squadron
Korea
Commander:
Cdr. J.L. McRobertson
7th
  Air Warning Squadron
Okinawa
Deployed: Peiping, China October 1945 to January 1949
Redesignated: MGCI-7 August 1946
  Marine Ground Contol Intercept Squadron
Redesignated: MACS April 1954
Equipment: CPS-5; MPS-4
  Marine Air Control Squadron
Deployed: Viet Nam September 1965
Phu Bai, Viet Nam & 2nd radars at
Chu Lai, Viet Nam (as a CRP)
Replaced: MACS-9
Redeployed: Camp Pendleton, California, June 1967
Equipment: TPS-15, TPS-17, TPS-22, TPS-34, TPS-37, UPS-1
8th
  Defense Battalion
Wallace Islands
  Air Warning Squadron
Okinawa
9th
  Defense Battalion (latter the 9th AAA Bn)
Koli Point, Guadalcanal
3 December 1942
Solomons
Rendova
  D Battery
  E Battery
  Marine Air Control Squadron
Atsugi, Japan (?) - May 1965
Deployed: Viet Nam May 1965 - September 1965
Phu Bai, Viet Nam & 2nd radar at
Chu Lai, Viet Nam (as a CRP)
Replaced: by MACS-7
10th
  Defense Battalion
Russell Island, The Solomons
11th
  Defense Battalion
Purvis Bay, Florida Island
  Air Warning Squadron
Okinawa
Deployed: Peiping, China, October 1945 to (?)
12th
  Defense Battalion
Deployed: Woodlark Island, off the coast of New Guinea 30 June 1943
Deployed: Gloucester 1943
Equipment: SCR-268; SCR-270
13th
  Air Warning Squadron
Redesignated: MGCIS August 46
  Marine Ground Contol Intercept Squadron
Redesignated: MACS April 1954
  Marine Air Control Squadron
Equipment: TPS-15, TPS-17, TPS-22, TPS-34, TPS-37, UPS-1
15th
  Marine Ground Control Intercept Squadron 15
Naval Air Station Chamblee, Georgia
Activated: During Korean War
17th
  Detachment, Argus 17
Campaigns & Foreign Service Awards:
Battle of Guam, 1944
Garrison Force: Guam, under Island Commander, Major General Henry C. Larsen, USMC 
Notes: Shore-based Fighter Director Unit
18th
  Tactical Air Control Squadron
Marine Corps Air Station Futenma
Subordinate to: 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, Marine Air Control Group 18
23rd
Marine Air Control Squadron
Buckley Air Force Base, Aurora, Colorado
Marine Forces Reserve
Subordinate to: Marine Air Control Group 48 and the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing
Equipment: TPS-15, TPS-17, TPS-22, TPS-34, TPS-37, UPS-1
24th
Marine Air Control Squadron
Virginia Beach, Virginia
Marine Forces Reserve
28th
Marine Tactical Air Control Squadron
Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point
Subordinate to: 2nd Marine Aircraft Wings, Marine Air Control Group 28
Equipment: TPS-15, TPS-17, TPS-22, TPS-34, TPS-37, UPS-1


 
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