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Official VMM-262 Flying Tigers "ET" extra-terrestrial shoulder patch.
Flying Tigers — Ospreys out of Futenma, going home in everyone's hearts.
Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 262 (VMM-262), the "Flying Tigers," is the U.S. Marine Corps' forward-deployed MV-22B Osprey assault support squadron based at Marine Corps Air Station Futenma in Okinawa, Japan, under Marine Aircraft Group 36 and the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing. The squadron was activated in September 1951 at MCAS Cherry Point, North Carolina, fought in Operation Powerpack in the Dominican Republic (April–June 1965), and deployed to Vietnam in December 1966 — operating from Kỳ Hà, Marble Mountain, Quang Tri, and Phu Bai across the war. After Vietnam the squadron relocated to MCAS Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii in 1971, then to MCAS Futenma in 1992, and was redesignated from HMM-262 to VMM-262 on September 30, 2013 when it transitioned from the CH-46E Sea Knight to the MV-22B Osprey — gaining a tiltrotor that's twice as fast, carries almost three times the payload, and has four times the range of the Sea Knight, with the ability to carry 24 combat-loaded Marines into a hot zone. VMM-262 provides assault support for III MEF and 31st MEU expeditionary missions across the Indo-Pacific. The "ET" extra-terrestrial design plays on the squadron tagline — "phone home" — and the famous Flying Tigers nose-art lineage that connects the unit to the Pacific tiger heritage. This shoulder patch is for everyone Forward Deployed.
Perfect For: VMM-262 Flying Tigers active-duty and veteran personnel, MV-22B Osprey pilots and aircrew, MCAS Futenma and III MEF personnel, MAG-36 and 1st MAW Marines, HMM-262 CH-46 Sea Knight heritage operators, 31st MEU expeditionary aviation Marines, and Indo-Pacific tiltrotor community collectors.
Flying Tigers ET — Ospreys, Okinawa, phone home.
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