Looking for USN squadrons in southern FL ...
I'm doing an F-14D for the F-14 Group Build and my model has reached the point where it just sits on my desk and waits for me to have enough free time to paint the whole exterior.
I want to give the model to my uncle when I'm done with it, and he works on the Naval Air Base at Boca Chica in the Keys, and he sometimes works for the guys at the air station on Key West. Whenever I'm down there I like to sit and watch the F-14's flying in circles so I know for fact that there are Tomcats down there but I don't know what squadrons. My research has led me to a bunch of routes to nowhere, but I was provided with information on VF-101 Grim Reapers based in Oceana (I would assume FL, but all I saw was just "Oceana"). The concept makes sense that they go from Oceana to the Keys from time to time, and I love their paint scheme, but I know that Oceana is not a part of the Florida Keys so I'm not going to let myself settle with the Grim Reapers. (No offense ch47guy, you still rock!) I want to find the squadron that is based there at Boca Chica, if there is a squadron there at all .. or at Key West, if there is a squadron there at all.
Help please? Time will be running out on the GB before I know it .....