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Hancock Marine Hailed As Hometown Hero

A local Marine is being highlighted as a Hometown Hero by those she is serving.

Sgt. Catherine J. Salvador, an avionics technician with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775, Marine Aircraft Group 41, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing, examines an AH-1W Super Cobra during Integrated Training Exercise 4-18 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, on June 22, 2018. In 2018, Salvador participated in ITX 4-18 for her first time as a Reserve Marine. (United States Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Alexis B. Rocha/released)

Hancock native Catherine Salvador was featured in an article from the US Marine Corps Forces Reserve.

Salvador is an avionics technician with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775, Marine Aircraft Group 41, 4th Marine Aircraft Wing.

She first enlisted as an active duty Marine in 2010 and served on active duty from 2011 to 2015, before joining the Marine Corps Reserve in 2016.

When Salvador is not drilling, she works full-time as a production controller for the United States Air Force.

She serves as the collateral duty inspector for her shop, and was charged with supervising and teaching junior Marines in her military occupation specialty.

Sgt. Catherine J. Salvador (center), an avionics technician with Marine Light Attack Helicopter Squadron 775, Marine Aircraft 41, 4th Marine Division, gives a “coyote salute” with her fellow Marines as one of the squadron’s AH-1W Super Cobras takes off during Integrated Training Exercise 4-18 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, on June 22, 2018. The “coyote salute” is a unit tradition that Marines with HMLA-775 take part in anytime their aircraft take off. (United States Marine Corps photo by Cpl. Alexis B. Rocha/released)

In June, 2018, Salvador participated in Integrated Training Exercise 4-18 at Marine Corps Air Ground Combat Center Twentynine Palms, California, for the first time as a Reserve Marine.

The service level training event aims to prepare units for combat under the most realistic conditions possible.

The Marines are taking advantage of the location’s expansive desert to replicate conditions they could very well face on a possible, future deployment.

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