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Video by Lance Cpl. Daniel Childs

Steel Knight 23: MACG-38 loads an AN/TPS-80 G/ATOR on Landing Craft, Air Cushion

3rd Marine Aircraft Wing

Dec. 6, 2022 | 4:15

U.S. Marines with Marine Air Support Squadron 3, Marine Air Control Group (MCAG) 38, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing (MAW), and U.S. Navy Sailors with Assault Craft Unit (ACU) 5, Naval Beach Group 1, load a AN/TPS-80 Ground/Air Task-Oriented Radar onto a landing craft, air cushion during exercise Steel Knight 23, at White Beach, Camp Pendleton, California, Dec. 6, 2022. ACU-5 and MACG-38 demonstrated the ability to use amphibious connectors to quickly reposition aviation command and control Marines and equipment in a littoral environment. Exercise Steel Knight 23 provides 3rd MAW an opportunity to refine Wing-level warfighting in support of I Marine Expeditionary Force and fleet maneuver. (U.S. Marine Corps video by Lance Cpl. Daniel Childs)