{"product_id":"official-vt-10-wildcats-americas-250th-anniversary-patch","title":"Official VT-10 Wildcats America's 250th Anniversary Patch","description":"\u003cp\u003eOfficial VT-10 Wildcats America's 250th Anniversary commemorative patch.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e250 years of America. 65 years of Wildcats. NFOs to the fleet.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eTraining Squadron 10 (VT-10), the \"Wildcats,\" is the U.S. Navy's primary and intermediate Naval Flight Officer (NFO) training squadron, based at NAS Pensacola, Florida under Training Air Wing SIX (TW-6). VT-10 was established in 1960 as the Basic Naval Aviation Officers (BNAO) School — initially a ground-only operation — and became an active flying training squadron in February 1962 when it was assigned UC-45J \"Navigators\" and T-2A \"Buckeyes.\" The school was officially commissioned as VT-10 in 1968, the same year Naval Aviation Observers were redesignated as Naval Flight Officers, and by November 1970 the Wildcats had trained over 6,000 student NFOs. The squadron has flown a who's-who of training aircraft over the decades — the T-2 Buckeye, T-39 Sabreliner, TF-9J Cougar, T-34C Turbo Mentor, and T-47A — and in 2002 received its first T-6A Texan II, retiring its last T-34 in June 2005. The T-6A is the first military aircraft every Student Naval Flight Officer learns to operate, with full dual controls, a pressurized cockpit with onboard oxygen generation, and digital color avionics. In 2009 VT-10 returned to an all-Navy\/Marine Corps squadron after the Air Force stood up its own Combat Systems Officer School at NAS Pensacola, and in 2010 it incorporated VT-4 \"Cadre\" status to facilitate the new Undergraduate Military Flight Officer (UMFO) syllabus. This patch marks America's 250th birthday with the squadron that's been making fleet NFOs for 65 of those years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003ePerfect For: VT-10 Wildcats Student Naval Flight Officers and instructor pilots, Training Air Wing SIX personnel, NAS Pensacola Sailors and Marines, T-6A Texan II maintainers, NFO community alumni, America 250 commemorative patch collectors, and Naval Air Training Command historians.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWildcats — NFOs to the fleet, America's 250th, 1960 forward.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Military, Law Enforcement and Custom Patches by USMCinsignia.com","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50913483980965,"sku":"ynt1793023735810","price":9.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0768\/6039\/1589\/files\/official-vt-10-wildcats-americas-250th-anniversary-patch_1.png?v=1793023748","url":"https:\/\/luxecostore.shop\/products\/official-vt-10-wildcats-americas-250th-anniversary-patch","provider":"My Store","version":"1.0","type":"link"}