air station

Last year, the city received $990,000 from the state for Irvine police to purchase electric vehicles to patrol the Great Park, a former Marine air station converted for recreational uses.

They held signs calling for a halt to the construction of a relocated air station within the base and chanted against Japan’s Ministry of Defense.

The two structures were part of a Marine Corps. air station that closed in 1997.

He pledged that the government will continue to make effort for the return of the Futenma air station as soon as possible to reduce the burden from the base.

His late father had served at the air station, as had his brother-in-law, who “was crying his eyes out,” Hammer said.