 Marine Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Squadron 1 launched the RQ-7BV-2 Shadow at the Cannon Air Defense Complex in Yuma, Arizona, March 26th, making it the aircraft's first flight outside of 29 Palms. The ultimate intent is to run daily operations out of this site. This will potentially provide us with the ability to run daily flight ops, whereas up in 29 Palms it's not really possible to set up a system there and keep it out there on a semi-permanent basis. The significance really is the fact that this compound was built, the fact that we've got a runway here. That took coordination from headquarters Marine Corps all the way through down to the squadron and then across to the other units within the group. Marine Wing Support Squadrons 371 and 274 assisted VMU-1 with the relocation to Yuma. Roughly August of 2015 while we were forward deployed we received the task that we were going to build the runway for VMU-1. We started the project in October of 2015 and we had to clear out at least eight acres worth of basically shrubs. We started a leveling process. In January we started the process of actually wetting, compacting, leveling and laying material down. It's been a team effort and it's been a success so really in the end you couldn't ask for more from the Marines. VMU-1 is expected to assist with training exercises and other flight operations in the future. Reporting for the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, I'm Sergeant Michael Thorn.