As part of the new pages being added will be sections on each squadron, starting with VQ-3 and VQ-4, covering their beginnings and other milestones. Gathering photos, artifacts and stories is underway. VQ-7 will also have a dedicated page with the same info included. Please keep the circuit up.
Vern
After being in the hangar for a very long time, OLD TACAMO is about to takeoff with new content. The origins of VQ-3 and VQ-4 are first up with pictures and artifacts from plankowners.
Please keep the circuit open.
Vern
Over the years, TACAMO crews hosted their “customers”, crew member from the submarines they were working hard to provide with message connectivity. In response to the history contained on the OLDTACAMO.COM site, one of those riders wrote in the following:
“I found your website today while searching for VERDIN related information.Â
I was attached to COMSUBRON SIXTEEN [...]
Following up on the pictures posted on the site and the blog space, here is the link to the complete Navy Museum Cold War Gallery.
http://usnavymuseum.org/CentralHall.asp
It has many different ways to ‘visit’ virtually. Thanks to Doctor Ed Marolda for sharing the link and advising that the gallery is now ‘hot’ on line.
Vern Lochausen
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:Â Naval Aviation, Hercules, Ironman, E-6 shield, NAS [...]
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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
How Did That Herc Wind Up at Tinker?
by Vern Lochausen
The idea began in 1992 when a famous VQ-3 Herc, 161223, the first of the new Qs that came to the squadron in about 1981 was sent for evaluation at Cherry Point. After she had first been assigned to VQ-3 which had just relocated [...]