VFA-125 is the Legacy Hornet Fleet Replacement Squadron. Effective 1 October it was folded into VFA-122, the Super Hornet FRS.
125 had been in business for thirty years. Yeah, when I was still in my first A-6 squadron.
Jesse sort of owed me for a launch and recovery of the 416 CO on a Saturday that was for a funeral fly over. It was scheduled to be mine but he wanted to do it. He got a major atta boy for it. I told him a twelve pack of Fat Tire, Saint Pauli Girl or Pete's Wicked Ale.
This was way better.
And so the Rough Raiders pass into history. I went through the Flying Eagles twenty five years ago on my way to VA-147. 122 was referred to as Corsair College in those days. A-7E Corsair II.
For some of you.......................age give away!
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The Coin thing really amazes me. There was no such tradition back in the Dark Ages or if there was it escaped me, or otherwise avoided me. Mebbe I was in the wrong part of the AF, or sumthin'.
ReplyDeleteThat said... yours is way-cool. I have a VERY small collection these days, every one of which has been given to me by both boys.
Hey it's me again. Were you ever in VA-22, VA-97, VA-56, VA-122, when VA-122 were on a four day work week? Eight section duty. VA-122, had spads, Lear jets, and A7-C and E's. I went to IMA for the A7-E, APQ-126 FLR, work center 630. Plus the SSE for the IMA radar equipment. Worked in hanger 5 in it's mod next to the IMA Ordnance Shop.
ReplyDeleteOne day, long ago, I was one of the young women populating the line shack as a "Flying Beagle". Sundance was the Skipper. I collected Zippos, as they were the craze on the ships back then. I found this blog looking for a VA-122 Challenge Coin, if there is such a thing.
ReplyDeleteI left 122 just before they decommissioned it, but have the *best* memories of my time there and off my MMCPO, *Mike*.
God Bless all who serve, served, and will in the future.
Julie
As a avid collector I must ask if you might know how I can go about getting this coin because this is the squadron my uncle was in and I have been searching for this coin any help is appreciated.
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