VMM-166 Seaelks Sunset Patch Backing:No Hook & Loop before eventually being redesignated as

before eventually being redesignated as VFA-115 "Eagles" and transitioning to the F/A-18E Super Hornet

and the medal can be awarded multiple times for continued good service

where she provided devastating fire support for the troops storming the beaches

from Camp Pendleton to the battlefields of Afghanistan

VMM-166 Seaelks Sunset Patch Backing:No Hook & Loop before eventually being redesignated asVMM 166 Seaelks Sunset Patch Marine Medium Tiltrotor Squadron 166 (VMM 166) SeaElk Embroidered Patch, MCAS Miramar, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing. SeaElk identity, Osprey lift, and thirty six years of expeditionary Marine Corps aviation stitched into one sunset design. VMM 166 was activated on 13 September 1985 at Marine Corps Air Station Tustin, California, assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 16 under the 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing. The youngest CH 46 Sea