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VF-11 Red Rippers Squadron Patch - Plastic Backing 3.5\"
A 4\" with Plastic Backing/Sew On Squadron Patch of the VF-11 Red Rippers.
- 4\" inches
- With Plastic Backing/Sew On
- US Veteran-Owned Business
Strike Fighter Squadron 11 (VFA-11) is a United States Navy strike fighter squadron stationed at Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia, United States. The squadron was established in 1950 and is nicknamed \"Red Rippers\" (call sign \"Ripper\"). VFA-11 is equipped with the Boeing F/A-18F Super Hornet and currently assigned to Carrier Air Wing One.
Insignia and nickname
The Red Ripper squadron insignia as described by an early member: \"The boar\'s head is taken from the one that graces the label of the Gordon\'s Gin bottle. The scroll effect under the head is a string of link sausage, a good line of bologna which all members of the squadron were to be adept at \'shooting.\' The balls on the shield might be called balls of fire; actually, they were supposed to typify good, strong masculinity. The bolt of lightning was the bar sinister of bastardy. The whole theme was worked into a sort of toast or creed with which the squadron members were to begin and end all good drinking bouts. The official Ripper toast is, \'Here\'s to us, the RED RIPPERS - a damn bunch of gin drinking, bologna slinging, two-balled, he-man bastards\'.\" In 2011, while on liberty in Bahrain, high ranking authorities declared the toast inappropriate and offensive; the toast was banned shortly thereafter. Slowly since, the toast has returned in more informal settings.
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