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Official MWSS-371 Sand Sharks Balikatan 2026 Patch - Marine Wing Support Squadron 371 Sand Sharks Exercise Balikatan 2026 Commemorative Embroidered Patch.
Sand Sharks in the Indo-Pacific, building airfields, enabling aviation, and standing shoulder-to-shoulder with allies when it matters most.
Marine Wing Support Squadron 371, known as the Sand Sharks, was activated in 1986 and is based at Marine Corps Air Station Yuma, Arizona, as part of Marine Air Control Group 38 and the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing. The squadron provides expeditionary airfield support, engineering, motor transport, fuels, utilities, and aircraft rescue and firefighting services to aviation combat elements operating in austere environments. The Sand Sharks earned their name through decades of hard work in desert and forward-deployed conditions, including critical airfield construction during Operations Desert Storm, Iraqi Freedom, and a record-setting expansion of Camp Bastion airfield in Afghanistan. Exercise Balikatan 2026, the 41st iteration of the largest annual bilateral exercise between the United States and the Philippines, ran from April 20 to May 8, 2026, across the Philippine archipelago and drew more than 17,000 personnel from the Philippines, United States, Australia, Japan, France, Canada, and New Zealand. The exercise strengthened interoperability, tested distributed logistics, and reinforced the U.S.-Philippine Mutual Defense Treaty alliance. A wing support squadron patch tied to Balikatan 2026 marks the ground-enabler side of that story, the engineers, fuelers, and airfield builders who make aviation operations possible wherever the mission lands.
Perfect For: MWSS-371 veterans and active-duty Sand Sharks, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing collectors, MCAS Yuma alumni, Balikatan 2026 participants, Marine aviation ground support community members, Indo-Pacific exercise commemorative collections, shadow boxes, patch panels, reunion displays, and family members who want a specific piece tied to the squadron's forward-deployed engineering legacy and the 2026 Philippines exercise rotation.
Sand Sharks heritage, stitched for the airfields they built and the alliances they helped hold together.
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Size is shown on the product page and updates with the variant you select (example: 3"). If you’re mounting on a hat or small panel, choose smaller sizes; for plate carriers and display boards, larger sizes fit better.
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