2nd Low Altitude Air Defense Battalion (2nd LAAD) is an air defense unit of the United States Marine Corps. They are part of Marine Air Control Group 28 (MACG-28) and the 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW) and are currently based at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point.
Famous quotes containing the words altitude, air and/or defense:
“On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its “great intellects.””
—Karl Marx (1818–1883)
“Music, in performance, is a type of sculpture. The air in the performance is sculpted into something.”
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