Why are most of the F A 18D fighters in service with the U.S. Marine Corps?

Lockheed Martin completed the first "flight" of the FA-18D simulator in the Marine Corps Aviation Simulator Master Program with a new PC image generator and host system, an image generator and host system designed to enhance the simulator's performance and reduce its lifetime cost.

The new training system enhances the combat capabilities of the Naval Air-Ground Task Force by providing a high-fidelity tactical training environment. The simulator is the latest addition from Lo Mar and provides a risk-free simulation of the actual offense and defense** of the aircraft and its crew. The Marine Corps Simulator program is designed to increase the probability of success in combat flight training and subsequent actual combat flights.

The new F A-18D simulator features distributed mission training capabilities and a networked system that allows pilots to "see" and respond to other simulators approaching or across oceans. The system is designed with an open architecture and is easily upgradeable with Loma PC image generator technology and commercial off-the-shelf technology. The F A-18D simulator provides high-fidelity tactical and emergency procedure training for pilots and system commanders.

The F A-18D fighter is a carrier-based fighter.

All carrier-based aircraft have land-based bases, and in addition to going to sea with aircraft carriers, training and maintenance are carried out at the land-based airfields and bases where they are deployed.

As far as I know, the Navy has 39 squadrons of F-18s (including C E F and a small number of Type A), 33 of which are now part of the Carrier Air Wing, and the other two are deployed at the Marine Corps' air base (Marine) under the UDP plan (a more laborious explanation for this, that is, a plan between the Navy and the Marine Corps, which seems to redeploy their respective units to each other for a period of time to achieve the effect of improving synergy).

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Iwakuni, in Japan), the two squadrons were VFA-94 and 97. Three more squadrons were served as fleets

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The Squadron (Supplementary Company of the Ship Command) is stationed at two naval aviation bases (NAS) on the mainland

Oceana and NAS

Lemoore), the so-called training of F-18 pilots of the Navy and Marine Corps. There is also a squadron that belongs to Tactical

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wing, mainly as a reserve, training and support.

In addition, the Marine Corps has 15 F-18 squadrons, including a land-based training squadron. The Marine Corps' F-18s are mostly deployed on the mainland and at airfields in Japan, but they are also on board ships depending on rotation. Squadrons in the Navy will also rotate as needed, and a certain number of squadrons will be deployed as UDP.