USMC starts 3-year effort to reset 147 CH-53Es

Over the next three years, the U.S. Marine Corps will rotate 147 of its CH-53Es to MCAS Miramar; New River; and Kaneohe Bay for technicians to strip down the rotor-craft, rebuild them and swap out high time components.

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All non-deployed USMC squadrons to take “operational pause” within 7 working days

In the wake of another F/A-18 crash this week, the U.S. Marine Corps has ordered all its non-deployed squadrons to take an “operational pause” within seven working days.

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