Official VT-27 Boomers Christmas Patches

Official VT-27 Boomers Christmas Patches — Deck the Flight Line With Boughs of Boomer

It’s not the holidays until someone breaks out the Christmas patch on the schedule board.

In naval aviation, the holiday season brings out the best morale patches — and Training Squadron 27 (VT-27), the 'Boomers,' delivers with a Christmas patch that celebrates the spirit of the season on the Texas Coastal Bend. VT-27 has been a cornerstone of the Navy and Marine Corps pilot training pipeline since its establishment on July 11, 1951, as Advanced Training Unit-B at Naval Air Station Corpus Christi. After stints at NAS Kingsville and NAS New Iberia, the Boomers returned to Corpus Christi in 1964 and have been there ever since, training student naval aviators through the primary phase of flight training. Over the decades, VT-27 has transitioned through a remarkable lineage of trainers — from the Grumman TS-2A Tracker in the advanced training role, to the T-28B Trojan, to the T-34C Turbo Mentor, and finally to the T-6B Texan II in 2013. As one of only five Navy primary training squadrons, the Boomers average over 11,000 training missions a year and more than 70 sorties per training day, setting the standard for safety and production within CNATRA. Holiday morale patches are a time-honored tradition in naval aviation — a way for squadrons to show personality, blow off steam, and mark the season before the training calendar fires right back up in January. This VT-27 Boomers Christmas patch is for every student, instructor, and maintainer who has spent the holidays on the Corpus Christi flight line, getting future aviators their wings.