Officially Licensed USMC MALS-36 Bladerunners Sticker — Keeping Marine Aviation Flying from the Pacific's Front Porch
From the jungles of Chu Lai to the flight line at Futenma, the Bladerunners have been turning wrenches on Marine helicopters for over seven decades.
Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 36 (MALS-36) — the 'Bladerunners' — is the forward-deployed aviation logistics backbone of Marine Aircraft Group 36 and the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing, based at MCAS Futenma on Okinawa, Japan. Established in June 1952 at MCAS Tustin, California, as Headquarters Squadron 36, the unit was redesignated Headquarters and Maintenance Squadron 36 in February 1954 before taking on its current MALS-36 designation on October 1, 1988. The Bladerunners deployed to Chu Lai, Republic of Vietnam, in August 1965, spending more than four years supporting tactical operations at some of the war's most critical locations — including Ky Ha and Phu Bai — while their Marines kept helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft mission-ready through campaigns like Dewey Canyon, the Battle of Hue City, and Operation Main Crag. After Vietnam, H&MS-36 relocated to Okinawa in November 1969, where the squadron has remained ever since, providing intermediate-level maintenance, avionics, ordnance, and supply support for the CH-46 Sea Knight, CH-53 Super Stallion, UH-1 Huey, AH-1 Cobra, OV-10 Bronco, KC-130 Hercules, and now the MV-22 Osprey and CH-53K King Stallion. MALS-36's operational resume reads like a history of Marine Corps expeditionary aviation itself — Operation Sea Angel in Bangladesh, Operation Fiery Vigil after the Mount Pinatubo eruption in the Philippines, Operation Restore Hope in Somalia, Operation Stabilize in East Timor, and deployments to Iraq in support of OIF. Stationed in the strategically critical Indo-Pacific theater, the Bladerunners are the maintainers who ensure MAG-36's aircraft are always ready to answer the call in one of the world's most dynamic regions. This sticker is for every Marine who's ever sweated through an Okinawa summer keeping rotors turning on the Futenma flight line.
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