The United States Department of Defense aviation combat crews have trained at the CMAGR and within its airspace since World War II.

[1] The range is managed by Marine Corps Air Station Yuma.

[1] The CMAGR provides opportunities for military training by use of its varied terrain and special-use airspace.

[1] The CMAGR's live-fire aviation training ranges provide training for air combat maneuvering and tactics; air-to-air gunnery; airborne laser system operations; close air support; and air-to-ground bombing, strafing, and rocketry.

[2] The Navy and Marine Corps jointly prepared and published a "Geologic Map and Database of the Chocolate Mountain Aerial Gunnery Range" in 2018.