Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue
Airport in Bogue Sound / Emerald Isle, North Carolina / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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MCALF Bogue | |||||||||||
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Airport type | Military | ||||||||||
Owner | United States Department of the Navy | ||||||||||
Operator | United States Marine Corps | ||||||||||
Location | Bogue Sound / Emerald Isle, North Carolina | ||||||||||
Built | 1942 | ||||||||||
In use | 1942–Present (Intermittently) | ||||||||||
Occupants | 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing/MWSS-271 | ||||||||||
Elevation AMSL | 21 ft / 6 m | ||||||||||
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Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue (ICAO: KNJM, FAA LID: NJM), also known as Bogue Field, is an 875-acre (3.54 km2) landing field located on Bogue Sound (North Carolina) that serves as a Marine Corps’ East Coast site for Field Carrier Landing Practice (FCLP). It is a sub facility of MCAS Cherry Point in Havelock in Craven County and one of three USMC facilities in Carteret County. The others include Atlantic Airfield, a Cherry Point sub installation which is sparsely manned and Radio Island shipping terminal, between Morehead City and Beaufort, which falls under control of Camp Lejeune, though it is only manned during active military operations. Another USMC facility, Oak Grove Airfield, near Pollocksville in Jones County, in also controlled by Cherry Point and in rarely manned unless training is conducted there. By Bogue Field being available for performing many of these landings at night, pilots simulate landing on an aircraft carrier or an amphibious assault ship, which provides the force with the means to forward deploy its aviation assets in order to have a more readily accessible aviation punch for the Marine Air Ground Task Force (MAGTF) commander on the battlefield.