Naval Air Station Oceana Fleet Defenders Soft Cover by Images of America

Features

• 128 pages
• 217 phots and illustrations
• 6.5 x 9.25

Chambers. Since 1950 US Navy fleet defender (fighter) squadrons—home-based at Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana in Virginia Beach Virginia—have served as a vital part of the country's national defense and helped to exert global US naval firepower. Over the years NAS Oceana-based fleet defender squadrons have participated in combat during the Korean Vietnam and Persian Gulf Wars and in military incidents and conflicts in Libya as well as Kosovo and Afghanistan. During the Cold War NAS Oceana-based fleet defender squadrons served as crucial deterrents to the Soviet Union's acts of aggression and provocation. More recently NAS Oceana-based fleet defender squadrons have been highly engaged in the ongoing War on Terrorism striking Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) targets in Iraq and Syria and Taliban targets in Afghanistan. Today these squadrons stand ready to defend the United States its naval fleets and its interests abroad.