NAWDC Behavior Modification Patch — Adjusting Your Attitude at Mach Speed
You showed up thinking you were good. Fallon will show you how wrong you were.
The Naval Aviation Warfighting Development Center (NAWDC) at NAS Fallon, Nevada is the U.S. Navy's center of excellence for advanced air combat training and tactics development — the home of TOPGUN, TOPDOME, HAVOC, SEAWOLF, and Strike University under one roof. Formed in 1996 when the Naval Strike Warfare Center merged with the Navy Fighter Weapons School and the Carrier Airborne Early Warning Weapons School, NAWDC is where carrier air wings come to get forged into combat-ready fighting forces. The Fallon Range Training Complex encompasses over 10,200 square miles of airspace — the only Navy facility where an entire air wing can train while integrating every element of air warfare. This "Behavior Modification" patch is pure NAWDC culture: you arrive thinking you know everything, and the instructors at Fallon methodically correct every bad habit until your tactics, procedures, and ego have been properly recalibrated. Always on target.
Perfect For: NAWDC instructors and graduates, TOPGUN alumni, NAS Fallon personnel, carrier air wing aviators who survived Fallon workups, and anyone whose behavior was permanently modified by the Nevada desert.
NAWDC — where naval aviators go to get fixed.