Archive for June 2011

Skipper Mike Davidson Collection- Take Two

Special THANKS to Skipper Mike Davidson who checked this site and advised that an earlier upload was incomplete.  Mike has a awesome patch collection, including this rare one from the VQ-4 Ready Alert site homeport between 1974 and 1993.
The T-Shirts/Patches page now properly contains the following new additions:  Naval Aviation, Hercules, Ironman, E-6 shield, NAS [...]

TACAMO Definitions Added

As a result of recent feedback on the site’s glossary labeled as Whiskey Tango Foxtrot, an omitted term has been added.  Review the MCA entry for details.
THANKS to Master Blaster Bob Wicker for the addition.
Vern

TACAMO Lands in Navy Museum!

You will have to look hard to find ‘TACAMO Hercs or Mercs’ in a museum but if you visit the National Museum of the US Navy at the Navy Yard in Washington DC, you will find TACAMO has landed there.  See the new page on this website: TACAMO in Museums.  THANKS to the following gents for [...]

THE ART OF TACAMO

Check out a new page on the website by the same name. If you know of or have some examples of other TACAMO Sailor created art work, please contact me so that I might post it.  I remember the Reel Op “Country” from the 80s in VQ-3 and AMS2 Herbert from the 70s in VQ-4 [...]

Plankowner Found – Maintenance Officer Clarence Mayberry

As part of the responses to advertising for the 2011 TACAMO Reunion in Pax River, a VQ-4 plankowner from the pre-squadron commissioning days came forward.
In 1964, Clarence Mayberry was the #2 in the VR-1 TACAMO Detachment maintenance division.  He wrote a memo requesting an additional operator crew for the TACAMO II system he was supporting.  [...]