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and the will to bring them home

and Marine helicopter units provided critical airlift

Tonkin Gulf veterans

transitioning through the Navy's attack aircraft inventory as technology evolved and older platforms were retired

Official VQ-3 Quality Assurance QA FOD Patch MV-22 ATC controllersOfficial VQ 3 Quality Assurance QA FOD Patch Keeping the Mercury fleet clean and mission ready. Fleet Air Reconnaissance Squadron Three (VQ 3), the Ironmen, operates the Boeing E 6B Mercury the airborne command post that provides survivable communication links to the nation's nuclear submarine fleet under the TACAMO (Take Charge And Move Out) mission. Based at Tinker Air Force Base, Oklahoma, VQ 3 maintains one of the most critical missions in the U.