Officially Licensed VQ-4 Shadows Squadron Patch Backing:Hook & Loop four-bladed rotary-wing weapons platform designed

four-bladed rotary-wing weapons platform designed specifically to deliver devastating firepower in support of Marine ground forces

Based with the 3rd Marines in Hawaii

Perfect For: CVW-3 aircrew and maintainers

The annual Birthday Ball is the most sacred tradition in the Marine Corps — a night of ceremony

Officially Licensed VQ-4 Shadows Squadron Patch Backing:Hook & Loop four-bladed rotary-wing weapons platform designedOfficially Licensed VQ 4 Shadows Squadron Patch TACAMO Mission, Shadow Identity The Shadows of VQ 4 fly the E 6B Mercury in the most critical mission you've never heard of. Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 4 (VQ 4), the Shadows, operates the E 6B Mercury for the TACAMO (Take Charge and Move Out) mission, providing airborne communications relay for the nation's nuclear deterrent force. This embroidered squadron patch represents VQ 4's identity in the