[1] Organize, train and equip individual Marines and combat-ready squadrons and to augment and reinforce the active component when required in order to serve as part of our total force.

The Group’s primary mission was to administer and supervise training for combat duty, and other activities of the attached squadrons and detachments.

It also trained replacement pilots and crew for Marine squadrons operating in combat areas.

Thus on 1 July 1962, Marine Aircraft Group 46 was reactivated at Grosse Ile, Michigan and moved to Naval Air Station New York in Brooklyn on 1 November 1965.

In early 1971, MAG 46 moved back to Marine Corps Air Station El Toro, California and remained there until August 1994 when the Group relocated to its final location at Marine Corps Air Station Miramar, San Diego, California.