Officially Licensed USMC VAW-125 Tigertails Patch

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Officially Licensed USMC VAW-125 Tigertails Patch

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This is a 4" patch, with or without hook & loop.

Officially Licensed USMC VAW-125 Tigertails Patch - Airborne Command and Control Squadron 125 (VAW-125) Tigertails officially licensed embroidered patch, featuring the squadron's iconic tiger-and-torch insignia.

Tigertails eyes on the threat, torch lit, and the strike picture owned from the moment the rotodome spins up.

VAW-125 was established on 1 October 1968 at Naval Air Station Norfolk as the first East Coast squadron to receive the E-2B Hawkeye, and the unit has led every major Hawkeye transition since, becoming the first to operate the E-2C in 1975 and the first in the entire fleet to deploy the E-2D Advanced Hawkeye in 2014. The squadron carries two callsigns, Torch Bearers and Tigertails, and its insignia has featured a stylized tiger clutching a torch since commissioning. During Operation Desert Storm, VAW-125 flew over 890 combat hours controlling strikes on Iraqi targets and directed the VFA-81 F/A-18 intercept that produced the only Navy fixed-wing air-to-air kills of the campaign. The squadron was redesignated as an Airborne Command and Control Squadron in 2019 to reflect its expanded battle management role, and since February 2017 it has been permanently forward-deployed to Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan, assigned to Carrier Air Wing Five aboard USS Ronald Reagan. That forward-deployed posture, combined with a combat record stretching from the Gulf of Tonkin to the Arabian Gulf and the Indo-Pacific, gives this patch a lineage that spans more than five decades of carrier aviation history.

Perfect for Navy and Marine Corps aviation veterans, E-2 Hawkeye aircrew and maintainers, VAW-125 alumni, Carrier Air Wing Five collectors, MCAS Iwakuni and NAS Norfolk alumni, Desert Storm commemorators, shadow box builders, challenge coin and patch panel displays, reunion gifts, and anyone assembling a serious carrier airborne early warning collection that honors the crews who own the battlespace picture before the first strike ever launches.

Tigertails heritage, stitched for the crews who light the torch and hold the picture.

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