Aero-Linx!

Scouring the information super airways can sometimes be a tough, if educational, task for the Aero-News staff... but it also allows us to check out some truly neat and exciting sites, so it's not that bad a gig. On any given day, we may check dozens (and often hundreds) of different sources for story ideas, and facts confirmation. And, as is the nature of our business, much of this is done on the Internet.

The ANN gang decided we probably shouldn't keep some of the neat sites, info resources, and organizations we've discovered to ourselves... so we decided to bring you Aero-Linx. These are the sites that WE check out -- when we need added perspective, a new spin on a day's topic... or just want to escape into cyber-aero-space for awhile.

Look for some of our favorite sites, coming each day to ANN via Aero-Linx. Suggestions for future Aero-Linx segments are always welcome, as well.

Aero-Linx: The Marine Aviation Training Support Group 21

The Marine Aviation Training Support Group 21 (MATSG-21), Pensacola, Florida, provides administrative support to assigned personnel in addition to other tasks as directed by the Commandant. This support is directed primarily towards personnel in the Naval Air Training Command and The Naval Aviation Technical Training Center with support to ten ancillary activities. The command is principally manned by approximately 21% permanent personnel and 79% aviation students; both enlisted and officers. While the MATSG mission is administrative in nature, the Command monitors the flow of students through the school houses, provides Marine Corps discipline and Marine Corps peculiar training.

FMI: http://www.matsgfl.usmc.mil/