Talk:Coast Guard Air Station Los Angeles

Coast Guard Air Station closed in 2016

To be clear for future edits of this page, Coast Guard Air Station Los Angeles was formally decommissioned on May 20th, 2016. It no longer exists in any official capacity. Coast Guard Air Station Los Angeles was not relocated to Point Mugu, although all of its helicopters/personnel were transferred there. Any faculties constructed at Point Mugu would be considered part of that base, not Coast Guard Air Station Los Angeles. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Voteins (talk • contribs) 07:39, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

@Voteins:, do you have a better source than a four year old article that speaks of proposed changes? The Coast Guard Air Station San Francisco makes no mention of expanding coverage south beyond Point Conception. The relocated base is located on a corner of Naval Base Ventura County but has it's own entrance. A current source that it is actually part of Naval Base Ventura County will be needed in order to keep the current edit. Also it is poor manners on Wikipedia to delete a reliable new reference and edits. Military plans do change over time so a current reference is needed to substantiate your edits. Fettlemap (talk) 14:17, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

@Fettlemap: I put a link to a post on the Coast Guard's offical Facebook page speaking about the decommissioning ceremony in 2016 in the article. There are also images of the ceremony on DVIDS, the official DoD distribution service for press images. Both explicitly state the unit is being decommissioned, not relocated.

Some sources have described what occurred as a 'relocation', but others made it clear that the Los Angeles Station was being closed and replaced with a station in Ventura County. More recent sources confirm that the new station won't open open until 2021. I have yet to see a single source stating the unit known as 'Coast Guard Air Station Los Angeles' was active past 2016.

There was a section claiming funding for a C-130J simulator on the base was pulled in 2019 to fund Trump's border wall, but the source itself makes about no mention of Air Station Los Angeles or even the Coast Guard, saying that the simulator was for the California Air National Guard. The source itself is reliable, but being used in a highly misleading way to imply the station was still in existence so I removed it.

While there are some ambiguity about what the Coast Guard unit at Naval Base Ventura County is in an administrative sense, with sources stating it is called Coast Guard Forward Operating Base Point Mugu, the above shows some very clear evidence that whatever it is the unit is not 'Coast Guard Air Station Los Angeles'. Unless someone can provide a recent, official source saying otherwise I don't see how the article could be allowed to persist in its former state. Voteins (talk) 21:16, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

@Voteins:, I should have read the article and the Wikipage more carefully. Thanks for the clarification. Fettlemap (talk) 21:34, 7 September 2019 (UTC)

@Voteins:, The Ventura Star article does have information about Ventura County which could still be included in this article.

“Just up the coastline at Point Mugu, we are building a new air station at the Ventura County Naval Station,” Coast Guard’s commandant, Adm. Karl Schultz said.

The service plans to build a permanent air station at Point Mugu to replace one that closed a about three years ago in Los Angeles. Four helicopters and about 80 personnel are expected to be located at the station that is due to formally open by 2021, according to previous reports. Fettlemap (talk) 22:17, 7 September 2019 (UTC)