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Marines


MCB Camp Pendleton

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Oceanside, California
Official U.S. Marine Corps Website

May 13, 2010

A CH-46 Sea Knight helicopter from 3rd Marine Air Wing, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, fills its 320-gallon bucket with water from Las Pulgas Lake during the third annual aerial firefighting effort at Camp Pendleton, May 13. Approximately 34 emergency service personnel and several aircraft from Marine Corps Base Camp Pendleton, Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, Naval Air Station North Island and California’s Department of Fire and Forestry Protection (CAL FIRE) extinguished simulated fires on base by coordinating helicopter water drops.

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