Official VMFA-314 Black Knights Shoulder Patch Sonar Ping The squadron's insignia was designed

The squadron's insignia was designed by Walt Disney Studios — a hallmark of WWII-era squadron art

Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Light 48 (HSL-48)

deploying aboard LHDs and LHAs with MEUs around the globe

The squadron earned the Presidential Unit Citation and its crews earned more than 50 Air Force Crosses and Silver Stars during the Vietnam era

tiltrotor aircrew

Official VMFA-314 Black Knights Shoulder Patch Sonar Ping The squadron's insignia was designedOfficial VMFA 314 Black Knights Shoulder Patch Eight Decades of Being First From Corsairs over the Pacific to Panthers over Yemen, the Black Knights have always been the ones writing the next chapter of Marine aviation history. Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 314 was commissioned on October 1, 1943, at Marine Corps Air Station Cherry Point, North Carolina, originally nicknamed 'Bob's Cats' and flying the F4U Corsair in World War II. The squadron saw