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Officially Licensed USMC VMM-774 Wild Goose Throwback PVC Patch — Honoring the Phrog Days Before the Ospreys Arrived
Before VMM-774 went tiltrotor, HMM-774 was keeping the Phrog alive when everyone else had moved on.
This throwback PVC patch honors the CH-46 Sea Knight era of Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 774 (VMM-774) — the 'Wild Goose' — when the squadron was still designated HMM-774 and flying the beloved CH-46E 'Phrog' that defined Marine medium-lift helicopter aviation for half a century. Originally activated on September 5, 1958, at Naval Air Station New York as Marine Transport Helicopter Squadron 774 (HMR-774), the Wild Goose operated the SH-34 Sea Bat before a brief deactivation and reactivation at NAS Norfolk in 1969. After transitioning to the CH-46 in 1970, the squadron spent the next four and a half decades as one of the Marine Corps Reserve's most reliable assault support units, assigned to the 4th Marine Aircraft Wing. HMM-774 was mobilized for Desert Shield and Desert Storm in 1991, deployed twice to Al Asad, Iraq, during Operation Iraqi Freedom from 2004 to 2006, embarked aboard USS Iwo Jima for humanitarian missions across South America and the Caribbean in 2010, and conducted integrated training exercises at Twentynine Palms. When every other Marine squadron had retired the Sea Knight, HMM-774 was the last one standing — the final dedicated CH-46E unit in the entire Corps. The squadron held that distinction until January 2016, when it received its first MV-22B Osprey and was redesignated VMM-774. This throwback patch captures the era before the transition — when the Wild Goose was still turning rotors on the Phrog and keeping alive a helicopter that first flew Marines into landing zones in the 1960s.
Perfect For: HMM-774 and VMM-774 Wild Goose veterans, CH-46 Sea Knight 'Phrog' community loyalists, 4th MAW reservists, NAS Norfolk Marines, and anyone who remembers when the Wild Goose was still flying the last Phrogs in the Marine Corps.
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