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08-18-07, 07:00 AM
Ospreys to arrive for training at Miramar
By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Aug 17, 2007 19:53:30 EDT
OCEANSIDE, Calif. — A squadron of MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft will be plying the skies over Southern California for three weeks, Marine Corps officials said.
Members of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 162, a North Carolina-based Osprey squadron, will be hosted at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in San Diego for the training, scheduled to run from Aug. 17 to Sept. 8, Miramar officials said. The aircraft are expected to arrive over the weekend, 1st Lt. Jill Leyden, a Miramar spokeswoman, said Friday.
The arrival of the “Golden Eagles” of VMM-162 will mark the first large footprint of Ospreys at the California air station. In mid-July, Miramar hosted a detachment of several “Golden Knights” Ospreys who arrived to familiarize the squadron with local flight patterns. The squadron will be training at various military ranges in California and the Southwest.
“We will be there for about three weeks conducting specific training that is difficult for us to get done in North Carolina. This will be our first really large muscle movement and the Marines are chomping at the bit to get going!” the squadron commander, Lt. Col. Karsten Heck, wrote in the Aug. 16 squadron newsletter. “With the long legs of an MV-22, we can reach a wide variety of military ranges throughout California and Arizona. We will be doing a lot of great flying and training and getting tighter and tighter as a squadron.”
VMM-162, established on Aug. 31, 2006, will be gearing up for an Iraq deployment sometime next year.
Ellie
By Gidget Fuentes - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Aug 17, 2007 19:53:30 EDT
OCEANSIDE, Calif. — A squadron of MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft will be plying the skies over Southern California for three weeks, Marine Corps officials said.
Members of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 162, a North Carolina-based Osprey squadron, will be hosted at Miramar Marine Corps Air Station in San Diego for the training, scheduled to run from Aug. 17 to Sept. 8, Miramar officials said. The aircraft are expected to arrive over the weekend, 1st Lt. Jill Leyden, a Miramar spokeswoman, said Friday.
The arrival of the “Golden Eagles” of VMM-162 will mark the first large footprint of Ospreys at the California air station. In mid-July, Miramar hosted a detachment of several “Golden Knights” Ospreys who arrived to familiarize the squadron with local flight patterns. The squadron will be training at various military ranges in California and the Southwest.
“We will be there for about three weeks conducting specific training that is difficult for us to get done in North Carolina. This will be our first really large muscle movement and the Marines are chomping at the bit to get going!” the squadron commander, Lt. Col. Karsten Heck, wrote in the Aug. 16 squadron newsletter. “With the long legs of an MV-22, we can reach a wide variety of military ranges throughout California and Arizona. We will be doing a lot of great flying and training and getting tighter and tighter as a squadron.”
VMM-162, established on Aug. 31, 2006, will be gearing up for an Iraq deployment sometime next year.
Ellie