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Official VAQ-139 Cougars 40th Anniversary Shoulder Patch — Four Decades of Electronic Attack Excellence
Forty years of jamming enemy radars, from the Prowler to the Growler. The Cougars are still prowling.
Electronic Attack Squadron 139 (VAQ-139) — the 'Cougars' — became operational on July 1, 1983, at Naval Air Station Whidbey Island, Washington, and this 40th anniversary shoulder patch commemorates four decades of electronic warfare excellence. In their first year the Cougars won the Battle Readiness Competition, and they never stopped winning. The Cougars made their inaugural deployment to the Western Pacific aboard USS Constellation in 1985, won the 'triple crown' of the EA-6B Prowler community in 1986, and deployed to the Persian Gulf during Operation Desert Shield as one of the first U.S. forces responding to Iraq's invasion of Kuwait. The squadron actively jammed potentially hostile radars during convoy escorts through the Straits of Hormuz — the first active jamming since the 1986 Libya strikes. Through the 1990s and 2000s, VAQ-139 deployed repeatedly to the Western Pacific and Persian Gulf, flew combat missions during Operations Southern Watch, Iraqi Freedom, and Enduring Freedom, became the first fleet squadron to accept the ICAP-III Prowler, and provided humanitarian relief after Typhoon Fengshen in the Philippines. After transitioning to the EA-18G Growler, the Cougars conducted the first successful live fire of an AIM-120 AMRAAM from a Growler in 2013, deployed on the longest carrier deployment since Vietnam in 2014-2015 providing 75% of airborne electronic attack support during Operation Inherent Resolve, and most recently returned from an eight-month deployment aboard USS Nimitz in December 2025. This 40th anniversary patch marks four decades of Cougar excellence.
Perfect For: VAQ-139 Cougars aircrew and maintainers past and present, EA-18G Growler and EA-6B Prowler community veterans, NAS Whidbey Island personnel, CVW-17 members, and anyone who has served with the Cougars.
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