111 FIGHTER SQUADRON - 1992-2008 - TEXAS AIR NATIONA GUARD + WAR ON TERRORISM

Description

111 FIGHTER SQUADRON - 1992-2008
- TEXAS AIR NATIONAL GUARD
- POST COLD WAR + GLOBAL WAR ON TERRORISM ERA!
This is the real deal, authentic/original/genuine period/vintage patch
NOT an Overseas Knockoff!; Reproduction! or Fake!
Color Morale Patch
Condition is
NEW
NO GLUE
on back of patch!
Has manufacture plastic on back for protection
Unit emblem 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 12 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/suspended 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
Squadron was operational from 1992 to 2008
Unit was/is stationed at Ellington Air National Guard Baase, Houston, Texas
Assigned: 147th Fighter Wing/Texas Air National Guard
Emblem Approved: 6 June 1933
Nickname: Ace-In-The-Hole
Motto: Lone Star
Operational Aircraft: General Dynamics F-16C Fighting Falcon
Aircraft Tail Code: EF
Unit Awards & Decorations:
- Awarded One U.S. Presidential Unit Citation - WW-2
- Earned Four Air Force Outstanding Unit Awards
Campaign Streamers - WW-2:
- Antisubmarine, EAME Theater
- Algeria-French Morocco with Aerohead
- Sicily, Italy
- Naples-Foggia, Italy
- Anzio, Italy
- Rome-Arno, Italy
- Northern France
- Southern France with Arrowhead
- Rhineland, Germany
- Ardennes-Alsace, France
- Central Europe
- Air Combat, EAME Theater