Marine Air Control Squadron 6 (MACS-6) was a United States Marine Corps aviation command and control squadron. The squadron provided aerial surveillance and early warning while operational from 1944 through 1998. They were last based at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina and fell under the command of Marine Air Control Group 28 (MACG-28) and the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW). History Air Warning Squadron 17 was commissioned August 10, 1944 at MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina. On September 11, 1944 a majority of the squadron moved to Marine Corps Outlying Field Oak Grove, North Carolina to begin training on air defense equipment while a smaller detachment was sent to Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue. The squadron was still located in North Carolina when the Second World War ended. On August 1,1946 the squadron was re-designated as Marine Ground Control Intercept Squadron 6 (MGCIS-6). Throughout the postwar period and the Korean War the squadron remained at MCAS Cherry Point, except for recurrent exercises along the east coast of the United States. On February 15, 1954 the unit received its final designation as Marine Air Control Squadron 6 (MACS-6). Its mission was defined as follows: “To install, maintain, and operate ground facilities for the detection and interception of hostile aircraft and missiles and for the navigational direction of friendly aircraft in the accomplishment of support missions.” After its re-designation, MACS-6 was frequently deployed to the Caribbean Ocean area, including Puerto Rico and the Panama Canal Zone, to participate in fleet and division/wing exercises. In June 1958, the squadron was alerted for a possible deployment to Lebanon. The easing of tensions there would nullify the requirement for the squadron’s deployment. For the next four years the squadron was once again engaged in numerous combat exercises, primarily at Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue and Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune in North Carolina. In the spring of 1962 the squadron was transferred to Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California to await further orders for an overseas assignment. After a brief respite there the squadron received it orders to proceed to the Far East. On April 16, 1962, it sailed from the Port of Long Beach, California for Japan via Pearl Harbor and Okinawa. Two and a half weeks later they arrived at Naval Air Station Atsugi, Japan. Following the end of its tour in Japan the squadron returned