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Friday, February 02, 2007

"Argonauts" Celebrate Forty Years
VFA-147 celebrated their 40th birthday on board USS John C. Stennis with a cake-cutting ceremony and squadron photograph.

Originally commissioned as the Navy’s first A-7E Corsair II squadron, VA-147 was the first squadron to employ the Corsair II in Vietnam, flying from the USS Ranger (CVA-61) while deployed to the Western Pacific.

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