Description

VQ-4 Shadows E-6B Shoulder Patch – With Hook and Loop

Aviators! Are you looking for a high-quality patch you’ll proudly wear or display? Look no further than the VQ-4 Shadows E-6B Shoulder Patch!

• 3″ patch
• Embroidered
• US Naval Aviator Owned Business
• With Hook and Loop
• Shoulder Patch

Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron 4 (VQ-4), nicknamed the Shadows, is a naval aviation squadron of the United States Navy based at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma. The squadron flies the Boeing E-6B Mercury airborne command post and communications relay aircraft. It is part of the U.S. Navy’s TACAMO community, whose mission is to enable the President of the United States and the Secretary of Defense to directly communicate with U.S. submarines, bombers, and missile silos during a nuclear war.[1]

Operations
VQ-4 has a complement of 78 officers and 426 enlisted personnel. Since 1992, it has operated under Navy Strategic Communications Wing 1 at Tinker Air Force Base. It deploys aircraft to fly operational patrols out of NAS Patuxent River, Maryland. The acronym “TACAMO” stands for “TAke Charge And Move Out”, supposedly the first operational directive given to the squadron at its inception.