Officially Licensed USMC VMM-265 Leather Patches Kirkland AFB conducting heavy-lift operations day and

conducting heavy-lift operations day and night in all weather conditions

1st Anti-Tank Battalion — one shot

Army's light observation aircraft—L-4 Piper Cubs and L-5 Stinson Sentinels—earned the nickname "Grasshoppers" for their ability to land and take off from impossibly small fields

Admiral "Bull" Halsey himself requested the group be brought to the Philippines

Last combat tours

Officially Licensed USMC VMM-265 Leather Patches Kirkland AFB conducting heavy-lift operations day andOfficially Licensed USMC VMM 265 Leather Patches Dragon Hide Because the Dragons wear their insignia on leather, the way it was always meant to be. VMM 265, the Dragons, fly the MV 22B Osprey out of MCAS Futenma, Okinawa, Japan, under MAG 36 and the 1st Marine Aircraft Wing. As a forward deployed tiltrotor squadron in the Indo Pacific, the Dragons provide assault support across the Western Pacific from the Philippines to Korea and everywhere in