Grim Reaper US Navy F14 Fleet Replacement Fighter Squadron VF 101 Embroidered Patch

Fighter Squadron 101, also known as VF-101 and the Grim Reapers, was a United States Navy F-14 Fleet Replacement Squadron based at Naval Air Station Oceana until disestablishment in 2005. After the west coast F-14 FRS, VF-124, was disestablished in the mid-1990s, VF-101 became the sole F-14 FRS. On 1 Oct 2010, the squadron was reactivated and redesignated as Strike Fighter Squadron 101 (VFA-101), with a homeport change from Naval Air Station Oceana, Virginia to Eglin Air Force Base, Florida. VFA-101 will again serve as a U.S. Navy Fleet Replacement Squadron (FRS), this time for the F-35C Lightning II, the aircraft carrier-capable variant of the F-35 Lightning II Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) that will serve in the U.S. Navy, selected carrier-deployable squadrons of the U.S. Marine Corps, and in Great Britain's Royal Navy for embarkation aboard HMS Prince of Wales and HMS Queen Elizabeth. The squadron will administratively fall under Commander, Naval Air Force U.S. Atlantic Fleet and Commander, Strike Fighter Wing Atlantic. However, VFA-101 will operationally function as a subordinate squadron of the U.S. Air Force's 33d Fighter Wing, a joint USAF-USN-USMC organization at Eglin AFB, Florida. Provided by Wikipedia