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A month later, VF-154 was redesignated VFA-154 at its new home at NAS Lemoore, California, and began transitioning to the Navy's newest strike fighter, the F/A-18F Super Hornet. The squadron completed its first Super Hornet cruise in the summer of 2005 aboard USS Carl Vinson , part of Carrier Air Wing 9 supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
VFA-14: 1 Dec 2001–present: Homeport NAS Lemoore Oldest currently active aircraft squadron in the U. S. Navy VFA-22: Fighting Redcocks F/A-18F: Commander, Carrier Air Wing Seventeen: Commander, Strike Fighter Wing Pacific: VF-63: 28 Jul 1948-Mar 1956 VA-63: Mar 1956-1 Jul 1959 VA-22: 1 Jul 1959-4 May 1990 VFA-22: 4 May 1990 – present ...
VF-154: 4 Feb 1953-Oct 2003 VFA-154: Oct 2003–present VFA-154 Not applicable, still exists USNR VF-837 activated on 1 Feb 1951 for the Korean War and assigned to CVG-15(3rd) when it was established on 5 Apr. Permanently activated and redesignated VF-154 in 1953 CVG-16: Established 1 Sep 1960, disestablished 30 Jun 1970 as CVW-16 VF-161
Strike Fighter Squadron 154 (VFA-154) Strike Fighter Squadron 31 (VFA-31) Strike Fighter Squadron 146 (VFA-146) Strike Fighter Squadron 87 (VFA-87) Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 115 (VAW-115) (NAS Point Mugu, CA) Electronic Attack Squadron 142 (VAQ-142) (NAS Whidbey Island, CA)
The tables below cover every one of the 280 squadrons listed in the U.S. Navy's two-volume Dictionary of American Naval Aviation Squadrons (DANAS). [a] Volume 1 covers every squadron in the Attack (VA) and Strike Fighter (VFA) communities from 1935 to 1995. [1]
One highlight of the 2011 WESTPAC deployment occurred on 18 April 2011 when Captain Kevin "Nix" Mannix made his 1,000th arrested landing when he landed his F/A-18F Super Hornet from Strike Fighter Squadron 154 on the flight deck of Ronald Reagan. Captain Mannix was the deputy commander of Carrier Air Wing 14. [10]
Millions of emails meant for U.S. military personnel were inadvertently sent to email accounts in Mali over the past 10 years due to typos caused by how similar Pentagon email addresses are to the ...
CVW-9 squadrons embarked on board the Carl Vinson for the deployment included VMFA-323, VFA-154, VFA-147, VFA-146, VAQ-138, VAW-112, VS-33, HS-8 and Detachment 4 of Fleet VRC-40. [4] [5] During the deployment, the air wing logged 2,600 flight hours by its four F-18 strike-fighter squadrons.