Official VT-4 Warbucks America's 250th Anniversary commemorative patch and name tag set.
250 years of America. 65+ years of Warbucks. NFOs, simulators, and Wings of Gold.
Training Squadron 4 (VT-4), the "Warbucks," is a U.S. Navy training squadron based at NAS Pensacola, Florida under Training Air Wing SIX (TW-6) — and one of the longest-running training squadrons in the Naval Air Training Command. The squadron was established in July 1958 as Basic Training Group 9 (BTG-9) at NAS Memphis, Tennessee, was redesignated as Training Squadron FOUR on May 1, 1960, and relocated to NAS Pensacola — where it has been ever since. In 1996 the Warbucks underwent a major transformation, converting from a small advanced E-2/C-2 pilot training squadron to a joint Primary and Intermediate Naval Flight Officer / Navigator training squadron — a change that took annual student throughput from 36 to 450, with the last Naval Aviator winging on September 30, 1996. The squadron transitioned aircraft right alongside the mission: from T-2C Buckeyes to the T-34C Turbo Mentor and T-1A Jayhawk for NFO instruction, then integrating the T-6A Texan II beginning January 2003 and completing that transition by April 2005. After reactivation in June 2013 the Warbucks ran intermediate jet training in the T-39 Sabreliner, flying the last Navy T-39 sortie on August 27, 2014. Since November 2014 VT-4 has operated as the Navy's only simulator-based training squadron for Student Naval Flight Officers headed to the E-2, E-6, and P-8 communities, running the Advanced Maritime Command and Control Course (MC2) and the Multi-Crew Simulator. This 250th Anniversary patch honors America's 250th birthday with the squadron that's been making fleet NFOs for 65+ of those years.
Perfect For: VT-4 Warbucks Student Naval Flight Officers, instructor pilots, and simulator instructors, Training Air Wing SIX personnel, NAS Pensacola Sailors and Marines, NFO community alumni, E-2/E-6/P-8 community pipeline graduates, America 250 commemorative collectors, and Naval Air Training Command historians.
Warbucks — NFOs in the box, Wings of Gold to the fleet, America's 250th.
