page_title: Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue
section_title: Vietnam Era
hierarchical_section_title: Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue / History / Vietnam Era
caption_attribution_description: A U.S. Marine Corps Hawker Siddeley AV-8A Harrier from Marine Attack Squadron VMA-231 Ace of Spades taking off from the Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue, North Carolina (USA). Note the optical landing mirror used on aircraft carriers in the background.
context_page_description: Marine Corps Auxiliary Landing Field Bogue, also known as Bogue Field, is an 875-acre landing field located on Bogue Sound that serves as a Marine Corps’ East Coast site for Field Carrier Landing Practice. It is a sub facility of MVAS Cherry Point in Havelock in Craven County and one of three USMC facilities in Carteret County. The others include Atlantic Airfield, a Cherry Point sub installation which is sparsely manned and Radio Island shipping terminal, between Morehead City and Beaufort, which falls under control of Camp Lejeune, though it is only manned during active military operations. Another USMC facility, Oak Grove Airfield, near Pollocksville in Jones County, in also controlled by Cherry Point and in rarely manned unless training is conducted there. By Boogie Field being available for performing many of these landings at night, pilots simulate landing on an aircraft carrier or an amphibious assault ship, which provides the force with the means to forward deploy its aviation assets in order to have a more readily accessible aviation punch for the Marine Air Ground Task Force commander on the battlefield.
context_section_description: The Marine Corps reopened Bogue (sometime between 1965 and 1976) as a satellite airfield for aircraft & helicopters from MCAS New River & MCAS Cherry Point due to the Vietnam War.
  As of 2003, Bogue is still actively used as a satellite airfield with one active runway, along with the painted outline of the deck of an LHA amphibious assault ship, used for carrier landing practice.
  MCALF Bogue Field is the primary location for AV-8B Harrier practice operations. It is also used by other locally based USMC aircraft. It supports about 3500 FCLPs (Field Carrier Landing Practice) per training year. Training squadron aircraft take priority over normal traffic while exercises take priority over all other users, including training.
  Bogue Field consists of a runway constructed of aluminum panels which can be disassembled and reconstructed anywhere in the world in a matter of days by a specialty construction battalion. The remains of two other runways still exist. The Airport Facility Directory includes the remark, "Runway 18 utilized for catapults only."
  Although Bogue Field has no aircraft permanently assigned, it serves as a training facility primarily for AV-8 Harriers from Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point. However, it is also used for practice approaches by KC-130 Hercules transports from MCAS Cherry Point, F/A-18 Hornet fighters from MCAS Beaufort, South Carolina and helicopters from MCAS New River, North Carolina.
caption: A VMA-231 AV-8A taking off from Bogue, in 1978.
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