Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron

Headquarters and Headquarters Squadron

A Headquarters & Headquarters Squadron, abbreviated as H&HS 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 comminding general or officer), the squadron headquarters (commanding offcier and his staff), public affairs and media, facilities planning & maintenance, a motor pool, air traffic control, meteorology department, fuels, ordnance, other aviation support, fire fighting (Crash-Fire-Rescue), a Provost Marshal, some sort of Naval heath care facility, and Marine Corps Community Service, which usually hosts things like a base exchange, a commissary, gas stations, barber shops, library, movie theater, family services, Single Marine Program, and the like.

List of H&HSs

ee also

* List of United States Marine Corps installations
* United States Marine Corps aviation
* List of active United States Marine Corps aircraft squadrons
* List of inactive United States Marine Corps aircraft squadrons
* List of United States Marine Corps aviation support units


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