355  WING - 1992-2007 GAGGLE
- DAVIS-MONTHAN AIR FORCE BASE, ARIZONA

- POST COLD WAR  + A-10 THUNDERBOLT-2 ERA

This is the real deal, sold as authentic/original/genuine period/vintage patch
NOT an Overseas Knockoff!; Reproduction! or Fake!

You are buying/purchasing just one (1) patch,  The First - (1st) patch listed is the patch you are getting/buying
I do not sell any lot/lots of Items!

Gaggle Color Patch

Condition is NEW

Embroidered Patch with Merrowed Edge

Unit emblem/patch certified by The Institute Of Heraldry (TIOH)
Note#1: Attached are color images for information purposes only, free on the NET!
Note#2: The unit patch has not been worn on a USAF uniform for 17 years

Color Unit Patches came off the USAF utility uniforms during the late 1970s
After mid 1985 Color patches were worn only on Duty Flight Suites & Flight Jackets

Subdued unit patches started appearing on USAF utility uniforms during the early 1980s
In 2007 USAF prohibited unit patches on the Airman Battle Uniforms (ABU)

As of 2018 the USAF has adopted the U.S. Army Operational Camouflage Pattern (OCP) Uniform, authorizing subdued unit patches once again

Wing was operational from 1992-2007
Unit was stationed at Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, Tucson, Arizona
Assigned: 12th Air Force/Air Combat Command (ATC)
Emblem Approved: 16 March 1943, revised 1984
Nickname: Steeple Morden Strafers, (WW-2) & PACAF Pride, (Vietnam)
Motto: Our Might Always
Operational Squadrons:
- 41st Electronic Combat Squadron - Bald Eagle - (1983-2002)
- 43rd Electronic Combat Squadron - Bats - (1992-2002)
- 354st Fighter Squadron - Bulldogs - (1991-Current)
- 355th Operations Support Squadron - Silver Eagle - (1992-Current)
- 355th Training Squadron - Lion - (1996-Current)
- 357th Fighter Squadron - Dragons - (1991-Current)
- 358th Fighter Squadron - Lobos/Wolf) - (1991-2014)
- Copperhead Snake Squadron?
Operational Aircraft:
- Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt-2 - (1976-Present)
- Lockheed EC-130H Compas Call - Hercules - (1992-Present)
- Sikorsky HH-60 Pave Hawk - (2003-Present)
Aircraft Tail Code: DM
Unit Awards & Decorations:
- Awarded One Distinguished Unit Citation - WW-2
- Awarded Three Presidential Unit Citations - Vietnam
- Awarded Three Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards with Combat Valor
- Earned Nine Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards
- Awarded One Republic of Vietnam Gallantry Cross with palm

Campaign Streamers - Middle East:
- Defense of Saudi Arabia
- Liberation & Defense of Kuwait

Campaign Streamers - Vietnam War:
- Vietnam Defensive
- Vietnam Air
- Vietnam Air Offensive
 Vietnam Air/Ground
- Vietnam Air Offensive, Phase-2
- Vietnam Air Offensive, Phase-3
- Vietnam Air Offensive, PHase-4
- TET Counter Offensive 1969
- Vietnam Summer-Fall, 1969
- Vietnam Winter-Spring, 1970
- Sanctuary Counter Offensive-5
- Southwest Asia
- Southwest Monsoon
- Commando Hut

Campaign Streamers - WW-2:
- Air Offensive, Europe
- Normandy, France
- Northern France
- Rhineland, Germany
- Ardenness-Alsace, Belgium/Luxembourg
- Central Europe
- Air Combat, European-African-Middle-Easter (EAME) Theater