The 733d Air Mobility Squadron, of Kadena Air Base, Japan, is part of the 515th Air Mobility Operations Wing (Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam, HI) and 515th Air Mobility Operations Group (Yokota Air Base, Japan), and executes the USAF Rapid Global Mobility function in the Western Pacific – safely, by the book, then on time. When directed, the “Enroute Pacesetters” generate, launch, and recover air mobility missions in order to deploy, receive, and sustain combat forces.

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Shepherd Field Air National Guard Base is the home base of the West Virginia Air National Guard 167th Airlift Wing located at the Eastern West Virginia Regional Airport, 4 miles south of Martinsburg, West Virginia. During peak surges, the installation population is approximately military 1500 personnel, consisting of both full-time Air Reserve Technicians (ART) and Active Guard and Reserve (AGR) and part-time Traditional Guardsmen (TG). The 167th Airlift Group was redesignated the 167th Airlift Wing (167 AW) on 1 October 1995 and as it became operationally capable in the C-130H-3 aircraft to perform its airlift mission. BRAC 2005 converted the wing's aircraft from the C-130 Hercules to the C-5 Galaxy. In February 2012, the Force Structure Overview was released by the Secretary of the Air Force. The document detailed numerous aircraft changes throughout the active, Guard and Reserve forces, including the replacement of the unit's C-5 aircraft with C-17's. On September 25, 2014, the 167th Airlift Wing flew its final C-5 mission, a local training sortie. That same day the wing received its first C-17 Globemaster III aircraft, one of eight C-17s the unit is slated to receive.

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Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 268 (VMM-268) is a part of Marine Aircraft Group, 1st Marine Aircraft Wing stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Kaneohe Bay, Oahu, Hawaii. VMM-268 operates the MV-22 Osprey tiltrotor aircraft executing the assault support mission in the MAGTF. MCAS Kaneohe Bay is located in the northeastern shore of Oahu close to some of the world’s most famous beaches such as Kailua Beach, Lanikai Beach, North Shore, and Diamond Head. The squadron is known as the “Red Dragons” with Trixxie the Dragon as the beloved mascot. VMM-268 is responsible for completing the first Trans-Pacific Flight of 4 MV-22s from Hawaii to Australia in 2017.

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Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 3 (VMU-3) was founded on September 12, 2008 as the United States Marine Corps’ third Unmanned Aircraft squadron.  VMU-3 participated in the Global War on Terror with multiple deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. Originally stationed in Marine Air Ground Combat Center 29 Palms, California, VMU-3 moved to MCBH Kaneohe Bay in June 2014. The squadron currently flies the RQ-7B v2 Shadow and will add on the MQ-21 Blackjack in 2017. Nickname: "Phantoms".

The AAI RQ-7 Shadow is an American unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) used by the United States Army, Marine Corps, Australian Army and Swedish Army for reconnaissance, surveillance, target acquisition and battle damage assessment. Launched from a trailer-mounted pneumatic catapult, it is recovered with the aid of arresting gear similar to jets on an aircraft carrier. Its gimbal-mounted, digitally stabilized, liquid nitrogen-cooled electro-optical/infrared (EO/IR) camera relays video in real time via a C-band line-of-sight data link to the ground control station (GCS).

Marine Corps Base Hawaii (MCBH), formerly Marine Corps Air Station, Kaneohe Bay and originally Naval Air Station Kaneohe Bay, is a U.S. Marine Corps base facility and air station located on the Mokapu Peninsula of windward O'ahu in the City & County of Honolulu. Marine Corps Base Hawaii, Kaneohe Bay (fondly referred to as K-Bay) is home to Marines, sailors, their family members, and civilian employees.

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