Marine Aircraft Group 14 Marine Aircraft Group 14 ( MAG - 14 ) is a United States Marine Corps aviation unit based at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point , North Carolina that is currently composed of four AV - 8B Harrier squadrons , four EA - 6B Prowler squadrons , one KC - 130 squadron , a maintenance and logistics squadron , and a wing support squadron . Mission . Conduct offensive air support , anti - air warfare , electronic warfare , assault support , and air reconnaissance operations in support of the Marine Air - Ground Task Force or joint and coalition forces , and conduct fleet replacement program training in order to provide combat capable aircrews to operational squadrons . Subordinate units . AV - 8B Harrier squadrons EA - 6B Prowler squadrons KC - 130 Squadron History . World War II . Marine Aircraft Group 14 was formed at then Camp Kearny , California on 1 March 1942 . The nucleus for the new aircraft group came from Marine Aircraft Group 11 which had just arrived from Marine Corps Air Station Quantico following the 7 December 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor . They remained there training until they deployed for the Pacific Theater in October 1942 . The Group soon arrived at Guadalcanal relieving Marine Aircraft Group 23 on 16 October 1942 to become part of the Cactus Air Force . The group would take part in the Battle of Santa Cruz just 10 days later . In November 1942 they took part in the Naval Battle of Guadalcanal and continued to fight in the skies over the island until 4 April 1943 when they were sent to Auckland , New Zealand to rest and refit . MAG - 14 returned to the Solomon Islands in August 1943 and set up the Fighter Command at Munda . The next month part of the group was moved to Ondonga and later on more units were sent to Vella Lavella . From these locations they supported the Marines and American and Allied soldiers during the Battle of New Georgia and the Battle of Bougainville . On 15 February 1944 New Zealand troops captured the Green Islands in Papua New Guinea . Less than two weeks later aircraft from MAG - 14 were operating from the airstrip here known as " Lagoon Field " . From here , MAG - 14 units would continue to keep pressure on the isolated Japanese garrisons of Rabaul and Kavieng . By 24 January 1945 , four fighter squadrons from MAG - 14 were operating from Guiuan in the northern Philippines province of Eastern Samar . During fighting in the Philippines the Group was responsible for covering convoys and supporting Army and Filipino guerillas on the islands of Negros , Mindanao , Cebu and Leyte . Following the war the Group returned to Marine Corps Auxiliary Airfield Oak Grove in February 1946 and was deactivated . The Gulf War & the 1990s . During Operation Desert Storm , MAG - 14 flew night combat missions deep into Iraq and Kuwait and provided artillery destruction of the Iraqi Republican Guard . VMA - 231 and VMA - 542 provided more than 2 , 000 offensives in conjunction with delivering close to 4 . 5 million pounds of ordnance during January and February 1991 . In November 1999 , Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron - 2 ( VMU - 2 ) , which operates the RQ - 2A Pioneer Unmanned Aerial Vehicle was reassigned from MAG - 14 to Marine Air Control Group 28 ( MACG - 28 ) at the decision of the USMC Force Structure Planning Group .