The squadron provides aerial surveillance and air traffic control for the Marine Forces Reserve.

The squadron is headquartered in Virginia Beach, Virginia with an Air Traffic Control detachment at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base Fort Worth, Texas.

The support of air control operations as directed by the Commanding General, Marine Forces Reserve and to provide air surveillance, control of aircraft and ground-based air defense assets, and to provide navigational assistance to itinerant friendly aircraft in support of the Fleet Marine Force.

In October 1961 the squadron relocated to Andrews Air Force Base.

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