Official VT-7 Tigers Name Tags

Official VT-3 Tigers Name Tags - Training Squadron Three (VT-3) NAS Whiting Field Embroidered Name Tag Set, officially styled for VT-3 squadron personnel.

Tigers pride, primary training roots, and the identity of the aviators who earned their wings at North Whiting Field.

Training Squadron Three has one of the longest continuous primary flight training legacies in Naval Air Training Command. Commissioned on May 1, 1960, at South Whiting Field in Milton, Florida, VT-3 built its reputation on rigorous instruction in radio instruments, formation flying, and flight familiarization using aircraft from the T-28 Trojan through the T-34C Turbomentor and into the modern T-6B Texan II. At the height of the Vietnam War, the squadron logged nearly 110,000 instructional hours in a single calendar year, a record that stood across all of Naval Air Training Command. VT-3 later became the only primary fixed-wing training squadron to be alternately commanded by Navy and Marine Corps officers, and in 1994 it was designated the Navy's first and only joint primary flight training squadron, welcoming Air Force students and instructors alongside Navy, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard aviators. That joint-service tradition continues today, making a VT-3 name tag a piece of shared heritage across multiple branches of American military aviation.

Perfect For: VT-3 student naval aviators, instructor pilots, Marine Corps and Coast Guard aviators who trained at NAS Whiting Field, joint-service alumni, flight suit and flight jacket displays, squadron reunion keepsakes, shadow boxes, name tag collections, and family members who want a clean, officially styled piece tied to primary flight training heritage in the Florida Panhandle. It also suits collectors building a Training Air Wing Five display or anyone preserving the story of the T-6B Texan II pipeline and the instructors who shaped the next generation of naval aviators.

VT-3 lineage, stitched into every name tag worn over North Whiting Field.