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Mobile Coast Guard Aviation Training Center is an Air Station of the United States Coast Guard located in Mobile, Alabama, where it shares an airfield with a civilian airport, the Mobile Regional Airport. The Alabama Army National Guard's 1st Battalion, 131st Aviation Regiment's "B" Company is also located at the airfield. The base is also home to the Coast Guard National Strike Force's Gulf Strike Team. It is a multi-mission unit, for the Coast Guard's aviation and capabilities development center. Training is conducted to qualify pilots in the MH-60 Jayhawk, MH-65 Dolphin, HC-130 Hercules, and HC-144 Ocean Sentry. All pilots initially train at ATC, and will return once a year for a one-week proficiency course in their assigned airframes. Officer cadets from the United States Coast Guard Academy who are pursuing aviation careers also train at ATC. Serving within the Coast Guard's Force Readiness Command's Training Division (FC-T), the center is responsible for certifying all Coast Guard pilots are using their equipment and tactics to meet all mission requirements. The Operations Department, flies the HC-144A Ocean Sentry, which is a segment within the ATC command that conducts Search and Rescue, Homeland Security, and Environmental Protection. The Operations Department operates under the tactical control of the Eighth Coast Guard District and has area of responsibility that extends from the Louisiana/Texas border to the eastern edge of the Florida panhandle. ==History== In the 1960s, Coast Guard leaders recognized the need for their own "stand alone" aviation training base. Fixed-wing aviation training was conducted at Coast Guard Air Station Biloxi (MS), which was garrisoned at Keesler Air Force Base at the time, using the HU-16 for flight training. But the Coast Guard was forced to look at another location after military leaders had thoughts on drastically reducing, or flat-out eliminating, the flight activities at Keesler. Meanwhile, Coast Guard Air Station Savannah (GA), garrisoned at Hunter Air Force Base, was conducting its rotary-wing training with the HH-52. The Coast Guard looked at expanding its training facilities, but this begin to change when the Air Force transferred control of Hunter AFB to the Army (thus becoming the present-day Hunter Army Airfield) and the Army began to conduct helicopter training to supplement the training that was being conducted at Fort Rucker, and airborne assault training with units at nearby Fort Stewart; the Army's training began to increase dramatically in preparation for deployment to Southeast Asia related to the Vietnam War, and as a result, the amount of adequate space the Coast Guard needed for training became very limited. In 1966, the Coast Guard formally commissioned the Aviation Training Center on the 232-acre sight located at the north end of Mobile Regional Airport (known as Bates Field or Mobile Municipal Airport at that time) that was left vacant when the 908th Tactical Airlift Group of the US Air Force Reserves relocated to Brookley Air Force Base due to budget constraints.〔( Aviation Training Center Mobile, Alabama )〕〔( Air Station Mobile )〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Coast Guard Aviation Training Center」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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