Marine Wing Support Squadron 472

Marine Wing Support Squadron 472 (MWSS-472) is a reserve aviation ground support unit of the United States Marine Corps. The Headquarters Element of MWSS 472 (-) is located at Joint Base McGuire-Dix-Lakehurst, New Jersey. In addition to serving as the squadron headquarters, it is also the primary site for all of the Airfield Operations specific Military Occupational Specialties (MOSs). Military Police and communications MOS’s are also located at Detachment (-). MWSS 472 Detachment A is located at Wyoming, Pennsylvania and serves as the squadrons’ primary site for motor transport operations and maintenance, as well as food services. Detachment B is located at Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee, Massachusetts and serves as the squadron’s primary engineer services Site. The squadron is falls under the command of Marine Wing Support Group 47 and the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing. Due to a re-organization within Marine aviation, the squadron is set to move to McGuire Air Force Base, New Jersey by 2011.

Mission
Provide all essential Aviation Ground Support requirements to a designated fixed-wing component of an Aviation Combat Element (ACE) and all supporting or attached elements of the Marine Air Control Group.

History
MWSS-472 was activated and deployed in the summer of 2004 to Iraq's Al-Anbar province in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom II. The unit returned in the winter of 2005 and deactivated the following summer. In 2009, the unit was again mobilized and sent to the same area of Iraq for its second combat deployment, until its return in the early winter of 2010.