Current/Last Primary MOS
7202-Air Command and Control Officer
Current/Last MOSGroup
Air Control/Air Support/Anti-Air Warfare
Previously Held MOS 2500-Basic Operational Communicator
2531-Field Radio Operator
6722-Ground Controlled Approach Controller
6712-Air Traffic Controller-Tower
6708-Air Support Control Officer
6720-Air Traffic Control Officer, Automated Systems
6702-Air Control/Anti-Air Warfare Officer
Managing Partner/Owner (12 years). We manufacture paper wheels for use on bench grinders or buffers for sharpening.
We served as church planting missionaries in Japan for 21 years after retiring from the Corps in 1979. Then for 14 years was the Director of Calif. Church Extension for Northern Calif. Regional, IFCA International.
1963-1963, 6712, MCAS Futenma, Japan, ComCabs West
Marine Corps Air Station Futenma or MCAS Futenma Hepburn: Kaiheitai Futenma KÅ?kÅ« Kichi? is a United States Marine Corps base located in Ginowan, Okinawa Prefecture, 5 (9.3 km; 5.8 mi) northeast of Naha, on the island of Okinawa. It is home to approximately 3,000 Marines of the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing and other units, and has been a U.S. military airbase since the defeat of the Japanese Imperial Army in the Battle of Okinawa in 1945. Marine Corps pilots and aircrew are assigned to the base for training and providing air support to other land and sea-based Marines in Okinawa and throughout the Asia-Pacific region. MCAS Futenma is part of the Marine Corps Installations Pacific command.
MCAS Futenma is situated in Ginowan City (pop. 93,661). The base includes a 2,740 by 45 m (8,990 by 148 ft) runway at 75 meters elevation, as well as extensive barracks, administrative and logistical facilities. The air station is tasked with operating a variety of fixed wing, rotary wing and tilt rotor aircraft in support of the III Marine Expeditionary Force, the Japan U.S. defense alliance and many allies and treaty partners in the region. The base is also used as a United Nations air distribution hub facility for response to disaster or other crisis requiring air supplies due to the length of the runway and elevation.
For years, the relocation of the base has been a major political issue for Okinawa, Japan and the US military and diplomacy in Asia.