This reorganization permitted the establishment of a commanding officer ( the flight leader ), added support officers, and further redefined the squadron's mission emphasizing the support of recruiting efforts.

His involvement with this group led to his losing academic credits (" The First Duty "), when a squadron-mate was killed attempting a dangerous and prohibited flight maneuver and, under pressure from the team leader Nick Locarno, Crusher abetted the squadron's efforts to cover up the truth.

Reluctant to leave France and return to his life in America, he decided to take a final flight at his squadron's airfield in Toul.

At 1800 on 15 May, at a meeting in Whitworth's house, Gibson and Wallis briefed four key officers: the squadron's two flight commanders, Squadron Leader Henry Maudslay and Sqn Ldr H. M. " Dinghy " Young ; Gibson's deputy for the Möhne attack, Fl. Lt.

The failing helicopter's crew wanted to continue, but due to the increased risk of not having a backup hydraulic system during flight, the helicopter squadron's commander decided to ground the helicopter.

The squadron's most famous flight commander was the legless fighter ace Flight Lieutenant Douglas Bader.

On 19 August Lieutenant G. W. Mapplebeck flew the squadron's first mission over France, a reconnaissance flight searching for German cavalry in the vicinity of Gembloux, Belgium.

Slater had personally led the squadron's ' A ' flight in the first attachment to MV Empire MacAlpine in April 1943 and he was the only regular Royal Navy officer in the unit, all others being wartime RNVR.

This will only happen if he is evaluated by the squadron's flight surgeon and found " unfit to fly.

An Auster AOP operated by the squadron is at the Royal New Zealand Air Force Museum, together with an Iroqouis in 3 Squadron colours, and a Westland Wasp and an early F model Kaman SH-2 Seasprite formerly operated by the squadron's naval flight.

The last leg was a ~ 20 hour flight to the squadron's final destination with Fleet Air Wing ( FAW ) 15 at Port Lyautey, French Morocco ( now Kenitra, Morocco ).

Commander Tony Less was the squadron's first official commanding officer.

Unlike all other D-M aircraft at the time, the 23rd TASS fleet's tail flash read " NF ", for " Nail FAC "; the squadron's radio call sign was " Nail.

The refueling squadron's first KC-135A aircraft arrived Aug. 4, 1960, and the unit was declared fully combat ready in November of that year.

As a GCI station, the squadron's role was to guide interceptor aircraft toward unidentified intruders picked up on the unit's radar scopes.

That month the squadron's F-5 training program terminated after having produced 1, 499 graduates, and the 425th was inactivated 1 September 1989

The squadron's new mission was to test and evaluate TCTO ( Time Change Technical Order ) modifications to Tactical Air Command fighter aircraft prior to those hanges being released to operational wings.

In particular, none of the Far East squadron's four ironclads was immediately available.

The attack, which resulted in the deaths of both the squadron's other officers, was unsuccessful, and fighting continued, with Byng's horse being killed under him on 13 March at the Battle of Tamai.

Transferred to NAS Sanford, Florida, VAH-6 was redesignated RVAH-6 in September, 1965, commencing the squadron's transition to the A-5 Vigilante.

With the fall of Richmond, Virginia, in April 1865, Semmes supervised the destruction of all the squadron's nearby warships and was then appointed a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army.

Of the squadron's thirty pilots and radiomen, Gay was the only survivor.

In the late 1950s the squadron's inventory comprised only Dakotas and Devons, and in the mid 1960s the Dakota fleet was enlarged to six aircraft.

Markham used his family's influence to secure a place in this venture, and on 1850 was informed of his appointment to, one of the squadron's two principal vessels.

Of this number, LtCol Harold " Indian Joe " Bauer, the squadron's first Commanding Officer, was credited with 11 kills and posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor for his valor.

At 0940 AM on January 24, 1945, while taking off, 1stLt Karl Oerth of VMF-222 hit a lump in the runway, blew a tire and his Corsair careened wildly into his own squadron's revetment area, which was shared with VMF-212.

The squadron's chosen motto was " Après moi le Deluge " (" After me, the Flood "), a humorous double entendre on the supposed last words of King Louis XV of France.

The squadron's assigned role was high-level strategic bombing with a variety of free fall nuclear bombs.

The squadron's Vulcans were configured for the Blue Steel stand-off bomb and 617 Squadron was the first to be declared operational with it in August 1962. until in January 1970 the squadron's eight Vulcan B2 aircraft were re-equipped with the new strategic laydown bomb, WE. 177B which improved aircraft survivability by enabling aircraft to remain at low-level during weapon release.

In a high-intensity European war the squadron's role was to support land forces on the Continent by striking deep into enemy-held areas

The squadron's eight aircraft were allocated eight WE. 177 nuclear bombs and as the Vulcan bomb bay was configured to carry only one and assuming that RAF staff planners had factored in their usual allowance for attrition in the early conventional phase of a Continental war, leaving sufficient surviving aircraft to deliver the full stockpile of nuclear weapons, it is a reasonable conclusion that the Vulcan force was held in reserve for nuclear strike duties only.

The squadron's aircraft were equipped with TPQ-10 bombing radar receivers thus making them ideal close air support platforms.

After the battle, he took the squadron's wounded on board and carried them back to Erie for medical attention.

Nevertheless, exhibiting the same disregard for discipline that had gotten him in trouble earlier in his life, he took it upon himself to stow away upon the squadron's transport and joined them on the peninsula.

With the civil war in China threatening American interests, it was decided to deploy U. S. forces and in November and December 1926, seven additional FB-1s were transferred to VF-3M from VF-1M and VF-2M on the east coast, bringing the squadron's complement to 10 FB-1s.

The main character from the Namco game for the PlayStation Portable Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception who remains unnamed in the story but rather goes by his codename Gryphus-1 ( as he is the leader of the Gryphus Squadron ) is known as the " Southern Cross ", and his squadron's emblem is an Andean Condor with the Southern Cross in its beak.

Six airmen with the rank of Captain — the same rank as Richthofen — served as pallbearers, and a guard of honour from the squadron's other ranks fired a salute.

The second-class cruiser Châteaurenault and the troopship Saône had been left at the Jinpai pass, at the entrance to the Min River, to stop the Chinese from laying a barrage to prevent the squadron's escape.

The squadron's membership consists of young people from Lechlade and neighbouring towns such as Fairford and Faringdon.

The squadron began almost immediately to upgrade yet again to the Vulcan B2, taking delivery of the first on 1 September 1961, although its high-level strategic bombing role remained unchanged until the advent of effective Soviet Surface-to-Air Missiles forced Bomber Command to re-assign V-bombers from high-altitude operations to low-level penetration operations in March 1963, when the squadron's Vulcans adopted a mission profile that included a ' pop-up ' manoeuvre from 500 – 1, 000 ft to above 12, 000 ft for safe release of Blue Steel.

Some aircraft were to be held back in reserve from the conventional phase to ensure that sufficient aircraft survived the conventional phase to deliver the squadron's full stock of eight nuclear weapons.

Following a review by the Ministry of Defence, in 2004 the squadron's aircraft lost their distinctive livery inherited from The Queen's Flight, featuring red flying surfaces.

However this was delayed until 2010, with the squadron reforming at RAF Leuchars on 6 September 2010, when a closed standing-up ceremony was performed to mark the squadron's reforming, including the arrival of the new Typhoon aircraft in 6 Squadron colours from RAF Coningsby.

Today, all three of the squadron's launch sites are in remote areas and temperatures in the areas tend to be extreme, ranging from over 100 degrees Fahrenheit during the summer to-20 F in the winter.

After the advent of effective Soviet SAMs forced Bomber Command to re-assign V bombers from high-altitude operations to low-level penetration operations in March 1963, the squadron's Vulcans adopted a mission profile that included a ' pop-up ' manouvre from 500-1 ' 000 ft to above 12 ' 000 ft for safe release of Yellow Sun Mk2.

The squadron's task was to protect the main supply route for the force in place with routine patrols from the rail line to Batoche and to secure the only supply depot and telegraph station at Humbolt.

The apparent mismatch between aircraft numbers and nuclear bombs was a consequence of RAF staff planners concluding that with some aircraft held back from the conventional phase as a reserve, there would be one-third attrition of aircraft, leaving the remaining survivors numerically strong enough to deliver the squadron's entire stockpile of eight nuclear bombs.

Upon returning to Los Alamitos the squadron's designation was changed from VS-931 to VS-20.

Mackenzie was accompanied by a Danish schooner that had sailed from Santo Domingo a few days before, and whose crew were able to provide a detailed account of the French squadron's composition.

The squadron's last cruise with Nimitz lasted from December 1986 until June 1987, when Nimitz was rebased to Bremerton, WA.

Klunk often assumes command in Dick Dastardly's absence, e. g. when he went on holiday ( only to have his fun ruined by the squadron's further attempts to capture the pigeon ), or when he suffered from memory loss.

One of the squadron's first acts was to provide emergency shelter to 216 refugees from Fairbanks and the surrounding area when a devastating flood struck the region in August 1967.

According to oral history, the squadron got its name from three fighter pilots who killed a 6-foot rattlesnake and hung its skin in the squadron's ready room.

The squadron's primary mission focus changed from ground and air attack roles to location and elimination of threats posed by enemy radar tracking and surface-to-air missile systems.