Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron

A Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron, abbreviated as HHS or HQHQSQDN, is the headquarters entity for a United States Marine Corps aviation facility.

Organization A H&HS usually consists of the headquarters group (the station commanding general or officer), the squadron headquarters (commanding officer and his staff), public affairs and journalism, facilities planning & maintenance, a motor pool, air traffic control, meteorology, fuels, ordnance, other aviation support, Aircraft Rescue and Firefighting, a Provost Marshal, the Station Judge Advocate's Office, some sort of United States Navy medical facility, and Marine Corps Community Services, which usually host services like a post exchange, a commissary, gas stations, barber shops, library, movie theater, family services, Single Marine Program, and the like.

Most Marine Corps Operational Support Airlift (OSA) assets and aircraft are attached to the H&HS at an air station or base rather than using the standard squadron-group-wing command structure of most other Marine Corps aviation units. The primary military occupational specialty (MOS) of an OSA aviator is to manage airfield operations; flying OSA aircraft is strictly a secondary MOS.

List of H&HSs Insignia Station Location Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point Havelock, North Carolina Marine Corps Air Station New River Jacksonville, North Carolina Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort Beaufort, South Carolina Marine Corps Air Facility Quantico Triangle, Virginia Marine Corps Air Station Miramar San Diego, California Marine Corps Air Station Yuma Yuma, Arizona Marine Corps Air Station Camp Pendleton Oceanside, California Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni Iwakuni, Japan Marine Corps Air Station Futenma Ginowan, Okinawa, Japan

Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron

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