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VAW-77
Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 77 (VAW-77) "Nightwolves" was an aviation unit of the United States Navy Reserve based at Naval Air Station Atlanta from 1995-2008, then at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans from 2008-2013 and was routinely deployed to the United States and the Caribbean, comprising the U.S. Navy's only fully dedicated counter-narcotics squadron.
The squadron was under Carrier Air Wing Reserve 20 also known as the Tactical Support Wing, before VAW-77 was deactivated on 31 March 2013.
VAW-77 was created on 1 October 1995 when the U.S. Congress created the reserve squadron as a result of the United States escalating war on illegal drug trafficking. VAW-77 received four specially modified E-2C Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft optimized for counter-drug missions. As part of the Navy's post-Cold War role, VAW-77 flight crews patrolled the waters of the Caribbean in joint missions with the United States Coast Guard and other drug enforcement agencies in search of illegal aircraft and ships.
VAW-77 was established on 1 October 1995 to replace VAW-122 as a full time counter narcotics E-2C squadron.
On 18 October 1995, VAW-77 was commissioned, as a Reserve Squadron serving with the US Coast Guard and other Federal Agencies to fight the war on drugs, providing air surveillance for the United States Southern Command. The squadron worked in tandem with Coast Guard and other federal law enforcement agencies to combine and coordinate operations of counter-narcotics forces. The E-2C Hawkeye squadron deploys four to five times a year to bases near known drug trafficking routes to help identify suspected drug smugglers. The squadron spends approximately four to five months per year forward deployed to bases near illegal drug traffic lanes. 18-19 October 1995 was also the squadrons first drill weekend, On 25 October 1995 VAW-77 initiated their first flight Commander Thomas D. Lindsey, LCDR Bryan Cutchen and CDR Wetzel.
7-9 January 1996, VAW-77 participated in a missile exercise alongside Marine Aircraft Group 49 (MAG-49).
In 11 February 1997, VAW-77 provided SAR alert services for STS-80.
After Hurricane Floyd hit in late 1999, VAW-77 and VAW-78 provided communication, command and control (C3) support to U.S. Coast Guard, Air Force, Army aircraft, and C-130 for humanitarian relief and flood evacuation operations in Virginia, North and South Carolina. When flooding began in Virginia and North Carolina near the Tar River, VAW-77 and VAW-78 initially supported search and rescue operations over the drill weekend.
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VAW-77
Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 77 (VAW-77) "Nightwolves" was an aviation unit of the United States Navy Reserve based at Naval Air Station Atlanta from 1995-2008, then at Naval Air Station Joint Reserve Base New Orleans from 2008-2013 and was routinely deployed to the United States and the Caribbean, comprising the U.S. Navy's only fully dedicated counter-narcotics squadron.
The squadron was under Carrier Air Wing Reserve 20 also known as the Tactical Support Wing, before VAW-77 was deactivated on 31 March 2013.
VAW-77 was created on 1 October 1995 when the U.S. Congress created the reserve squadron as a result of the United States escalating war on illegal drug trafficking. VAW-77 received four specially modified E-2C Hawkeye airborne early warning aircraft optimized for counter-drug missions. As part of the Navy's post-Cold War role, VAW-77 flight crews patrolled the waters of the Caribbean in joint missions with the United States Coast Guard and other drug enforcement agencies in search of illegal aircraft and ships.
VAW-77 was established on 1 October 1995 to replace VAW-122 as a full time counter narcotics E-2C squadron.
On 18 October 1995, VAW-77 was commissioned, as a Reserve Squadron serving with the US Coast Guard and other Federal Agencies to fight the war on drugs, providing air surveillance for the United States Southern Command. The squadron worked in tandem with Coast Guard and other federal law enforcement agencies to combine and coordinate operations of counter-narcotics forces. The E-2C Hawkeye squadron deploys four to five times a year to bases near known drug trafficking routes to help identify suspected drug smugglers. The squadron spends approximately four to five months per year forward deployed to bases near illegal drug traffic lanes. 18-19 October 1995 was also the squadrons first drill weekend, On 25 October 1995 VAW-77 initiated their first flight Commander Thomas D. Lindsey, LCDR Bryan Cutchen and CDR Wetzel.
7-9 January 1996, VAW-77 participated in a missile exercise alongside Marine Aircraft Group 49 (MAG-49).
In 11 February 1997, VAW-77 provided SAR alert services for STS-80.
After Hurricane Floyd hit in late 1999, VAW-77 and VAW-78 provided communication, command and control (C3) support to U.S. Coast Guard, Air Force, Army aircraft, and C-130 for humanitarian relief and flood evacuation operations in Virginia, North and South Carolina. When flooding began in Virginia and North Carolina near the Tar River, VAW-77 and VAW-78 initially supported search and rescue operations over the drill weekend.