{"id":18053,"date":"2021-08-09T05:42:19","date_gmt":"2021-08-09T05:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/uncategorized\/2021\/08\/09\/marine-helicopters-flex-on-1200-mile-maritime-trip\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T20:23:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T20:23:53","slug":"marine-helicopters-flex-on-1200-mile-maritime-trip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/08\/09\/marine-helicopters-flex-on-1200-mile-maritime-trip\/","title":{"rendered":"Marine Corps helicopters flex on 1,200-mile trip across Japan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While most Marines are no strangers to hard field training, for Marines in one <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/06\/18\/marine-couple-saves-over-a-dozen-hikers-after-okinawa-flash-flood\/\" target=\"_blank\">Okinawa, Japan<\/a>, based squadron, simply getting to the training may have been the hardest part.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">On July 15, six UH-1Y Venoms assigned to Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 169, currently attached the 1st Marine Air Wing, took off from Okinawa and conducted a 1,200-mile trip to Naval Air Facility Misawa, Japan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The trip was the longest maritime trip made by the squadron that anyone involved in the planning or execution process can remember, Maj. Kenneth Kunze, a spokesman for the 1st Marine Air Wing, told Marine Corps Times in an email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Lt. Col. Eric Fleming, the squadron\u2019s commander, said in a press release, \u201cIt proves that we can range any adversary in the Pacific theater and conduct missions such as command &amp; control, close air support, deep air support, and aerial reconnaissance with expeditionary and distributed sustainment support.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\t<aside class=\"smg-interstitial-link wp-block-smg-interstitial-link\">\n\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/marinecorpstimes\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/03\/15\/marines-move-super-stallion-helicopters-off-hawaii-starting-major-aviation-overhaul\/\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__inner\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"smg-interstitial-link__media\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" src=\"https:\/\/one.sightlinemg.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/CH-53E-Super-Stallion.jpg.jpg?w=300\" class=\"smg-interstitial-link__image wp-post-image\" alt=\"\" \/>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<div 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units of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/06\/05\/marines-out-of-new-infantry-school-are-more-competent-but-more-tests-await\/\" target=\"_blank\">highly skilled<\/a> and<a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2020\/11\/03\/will-the-marine-corps-take-on-submarine-hunting\/\" target=\"_blank\"> heavily armed<\/a> Marines deployed to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marinecorpstimes.com\/news\/your-marine-corps\/2021\/04\/16\/top-marine-wants-to-see-marines-fighting-in-a-new-way-by-2023\/\" target=\"_blank\">expeditionary advanced bases<\/a> spread across islands in the Pacific.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While the plan makes the Marines a significantly harder target for any enemy to knock out, it also makes it significantly more difficult for the Corps to supply and provide air support to these spread-out Marines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Training exercises like this recent one are being used to work out how the Corps will provide the necessary support.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe significance of self-deploying HMLA-169 over 1,200 miles demonstrates our ability to execute Distributed Maritime Operations under the Expeditionary Advanced Base Operations (EABO) construct,\u201d Fleming said in the release.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The helicopters were loaded with auxiliary fuel tanks and accompanied by three AH-1Z Vipers, four MV-22 Ospreys and three additional Venoms from supporting squadrons for the trip, Fleming told Marine Corps Times in an email.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">While on the flight the aircraft made multiple refueling stops at various U.S. and Japanese air bases on the route, he added.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The longest continuous stretch over water was 300 miles from the northern edged of Okinawa to Kyushu, on the southernmost of Japan\u2019s five main islands, 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