Expeditionary Airfield (EAF) Landing Systems teams from the Aircraft Launch and Recovery (ALRE) Program Office (PMA-251) had two action-packed weeks last month improving EAF landing systems at Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue, North Carolina, and the Airfield and EAF ALRE School in Pensacola, Florida.
Since September 2019, EAF engineers have been testing commercially available equipment for a program called the LED Airfield Upgrade. December’s events of evaluating new equipment and procedures, and training the Marines at both locations marked the completion of planned testing.
The ALRE EAF team brought new training capability to Bogue Field that will be used by Marines for years to come, said Robert Pellegrino, a NAVAIR Test Engineer for EAF Lighting who worked on both projects.