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I appreciate that MCAS Kaneohe Bay is technically a separate facility from Marine Corps Base Hawaii, which is the overall name for all Marine Corps installations in Hawaii, but there doesn't seem to be enough information to warrant a separate article. The information in this article is overwhelmingly historical information about the geographic location, not the actual airfield. I believe it would make more sense to merge the two and simply create an "MCAS Kaneohe Bay" section within Marine Corps Base Hawaii. Palm_Dogg (talk) 21:59, 9 January 2011 (UTC)Reply
I have to disagree. Other than thier proximity, the two installations are unrelated. When K-Bay was designated a full MCAS, it severed the chain of command from the MCB completely. bahamut0013wordsdeeds13:40, 10 January 2011 (UTC)Antwort
So is MCAS Kaneohe Bay *just* the airfield? I've been stationed at MCBH for four years and have never seen any indications/signs that the airfield was a seperate facility. I pulled open the official website, which mentions the new designation of Kaneohe Bay as an MCAS in May 2009, but gives no indication that it is seperate from MCBH. A contemporary news article on the switch fails to indicate that MCAS is a seperate facility. Even the MCAS website is a subpage of MCBH (As opposed to, say New River Air Station which is next to Camp Lejeune) and gives the mission statement as "To maintain and operate airfield facilities of Marine Corps Base Hawaii..." Palm_Dogg (talk) 22:11, 10 January 2011 (UTC)Antwort
A separate designation implies the separation, in addition to having thier own chain of command. The website issue may be a matter of convenience on the legacy websites, since neither of them have yet transitioned to the marines.mil domain like most units have begun doing in the last year or so. And the news article you offered doesn't indicate a subordinate status either. And New River was never a subordinate command of Lejeune as far as I know, it was an auxiliary of Cherry Point until it split off many years ago.