The VMAQ-2 squadron of the US Marine Corps, home-based at MCAS Cherry Point, deployed all of its five Grumman EA-6B Prowlers to Aviano AB: as with 20 other Prowlers from VMAQ-1, VMA-4, VAQ-134, VAQ-138, VAQ-140, VAQ-209 and VAQ-132, all were assigned to the 31st EFW, USAF. This example wore the US Navy’s AerNo. 158032, the tailfin-code CY and the unit insignia (the patch version of which is shown inset) on the fin, while the double zero applied under the front cockpit identified it as the jet nominally assigned to the unit commander. For Operation Allied Force, EA-6Bs from Aviano usually carried ‘only’ three ALQ-99 ECM-pods, and two drop tanks: by the end of that campaign VMAQ-2 had flown a total of 2152.5 hours in combat, in 465 combat sorties and fired 57 AGM-88 HARMs. (Artwork by Tom Cooper)