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US Navy VFA-122 Flying Eagles FRS Baby Shoulder Patch — The West Coast's Super Hornet Schoolhouse
Before you strap into an F/A-18E/F Super Hornet for the fleet, the Flying Eagles have to sign off on it.
Strike Fighter Squadron 122 — VFA-122, the 'Flying Eagles' — is the West Coast Fleet Replacement Squadron for the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet, based at Naval Air Station Lemoore, California. The Flying Eagles trace their lineage all the way back to May 1950, when the squadron was first established as Composite Squadron 35 (VC-35) at NAS San Diego, flying A-1 Skyraiders on all-weather attack and anti-submarine warfare missions. VC-35 detachments deployed to Korea, flying ASW patrols and night 'heckler' missions during the conflict. The squadron evolved through multiple redesignations — becoming VA(AW)-35, then VA-122 — and earned the nickname 'Spad School' while training fleet replacement pilots on the Skyraider. When the A-7 Corsair II arrived in 1966, Spad School became 'Corsair College,' and by the time VA-122 was disestablished in May 1991, it had trained over 5,000 light attack pilots and more than 55,000 maintenance personnel. The Flying Eagles were reborn on January 15, 1999 as VFA-122, becoming the first squadron in the Navy to operate the F/A-18E/F Super Hornet. In October 2010, VFA-125 'Rough Raiders' merged into VFA-122, briefly making the combined squadron one of the largest aviation units in the world with over 100 aircraft. Today, VFA-122 operates over 60 Super Hornets with approximately 225 officers and 408 enlisted personnel. Every six weeks, a new class of 8–12 freshly winged Navy pilots and Naval Flight Officers begins the nine-month training pipeline, learning air-to-air combat, air-to-ground attack, and culminating in day and night carrier qualifications before heading to fleet Hornet squadrons across the Pacific.
Perfect For: VFA-122 alumni, NAS Lemoore aviators, Super Hornet and legacy Hornet pilots, FRS instructors, and anyone who earned their strike fighter wings with the Flying Eagles.
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