Tagged: VMAQ-2

Marines / military / museums / Special Aviation Events / Special Color Schemes / U.S. Marines / Viet Nam / warbirds

March 16, 2019

Marine Corps EA-6B Prowler Sunset and VMAQ-2 Deactivation

On Friday, March 8th, 2019, the United States Marine Corps said farewell to the venerable Grumman EA-6B Prowler and the last squadron to fly it, VMAQ-2, ‘The Death Jesters”. This was truly an end of two eras. The Aircraft...

Formation Flying / museums / U.S. Marines

May 17, 2016

The Disestablishment and a Brief History of the VMAQT-1 Banshees

Oxford Dictionary defines the word “disestablish” as: dis·es·tab·lish, [disəˈstabliSH] vb. “deprive (an organization, especially a country’s national church) of its official status.” In military aviation, a disestablishment likely means that the squadron’s current operations, staffing, equipment and/or mission has...

air force / bombers / Exercises / fighters / Marines / military / navy

June 23, 2015

Cutting Edge Interoperability Honed at Northern Edge 2015

Large scale live training and experimentation between two or more branches of American military service – Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard and Air Force – is a rare opportunity in the real world. Demonstrating interoperability is most often...

fighters / Marines / military / navy / post

May 30, 2012

Bringing back 1981

She once felt the wind rushing against her airframe as she was thrown with a controlled violence into the blues skies of the Pacific Ocean, off of the USS Midway CV-41. Number 1981 was a McDonald Douglas RF-4B Phantom...