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Officially Licensed USMC MALS-24 Warriors Sticker — Keeping Marine Aviation Mission-Ready Across the Pacific Since Pearl Harbor
Born on the same Hawaiian airfield the Japanese bombed, the Warriors have been keeping Marine aircraft in the fight from the South Pacific to the Global War on Terror.
Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 24 (MALS-24) — the ‘Warriors’ — was activated on March 1, 1942, at Marine Corps Air Station Ewa on Oahu, Hawaii, as Headquarters and Service Squadron 24, just months after the devastating Japanese attack that brought America into World War II. The squadron deployed immediately, helping establish an airfield at Efate in the New Hebrides before participating in some of the Pacific Theater’s fiercest campaigns, including the Battle of Bougainville and the Philippines Campaign. After the war, the squadron moved to Peiping, China, participating in the occupation of North China from October 1946 to April 1947. During the Korean War, MALS-24 served as a training unit for Marines rotating into South Korea. In November 1962, the unit participated in the Cuban Missile Crisis. Relocated to Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii, in April 1968 as H&MS-24, the squadron was reassigned to the 1st Marine Brigade and spent the following decades supporting MAG-24’s six-month unit deployment rotations to the Western Pacific. Redesignated as MALS-24 on October 5, 1988, the Warriors have since supported Operations Desert Shield, Desert Storm, Enduring Freedom, and Iraqi Freedom, while also responding to Pacific humanitarian crises including typhoon relief operations and the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. Today, MALS-24 remains at Marine Corps Base Hawaii under MAG-24 and the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, providing aviation logistics support across the Indo-Pacific theater. This sticker represents every Warrior who has kept the jets and rotors turning from the shores of Kaneohe Bay to the far reaches of the Pacific.
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