Official US Navy Gray Flag Exercise Shoulder Patches Combat Support Aboard were the F-35C Lightning

Aboard were the F-35C Lightning IIs of VFA-147 "Argonauts" — the first operational deployment of the Navy's fifth-generation stealth fighter at sea — alongside the CMV-22B Ospreys of VRM-30 "Titans

Wellton Whiskey — Border Patrol's desert unit

NFO training graduates

VFA-195's pilots and maintainers maintain an extraordinarily high state of readiness — they are always closest to the fight and always first to respond

and brought their Marines home through hell itself

Official US Navy Gray Flag Exercise Shoulder Patches Combat Support Aboard were the F-35C LightningOfficial US Navy Gray Flag Exercise Shoulder Patches Fly. Test. Fight. Win. Before it goes to the fleet, it goes through Gray Flag. Gray Flag is the U. S. Navy's premier large force test event, hosted by Naval Test Wing Pacific (NTWP) and Air Test and Evaluation Squadron Nine (VX 9) at Naval Base Ventura County, Point Mugu, California. The exercise combines developmental testing, operational testing, and tactics development to evaluate advanced