Story by Seaman August Clawson | USS GEORGE WASHINGTON (CVN 73) | 08.25.2023
ATLANTIC OCEAN (August 20, 2023) – Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS George Washington (CVN 73) supported Training Airwing 1, Training Airwing 2, and Training Squadron (VT) 22 during their carrier qualifications (CQ) in the Atlantic Ocean, Aug. 7-10, 2023. During CQ, student pilots attached to their respective training airwings are required to complete 10 arrested landings on an......
Story by Julie Ziegenhorn | Naval Air Station Whiting Field | 01.11.2023
Training Air Wing Five at Naval Air Station Whiting Field, Fla., conducted a ceremony Oct. 21 to wing 33 newly designated naval helicopter pilots. The guest speaker, Captain Joellen Drag-Oslund, U.S. Navy Reserve (retired), was in the same shoes as the men and women receiving their wings of gold back in 1974, when she received her wings. Oslund made history as the fourth female naval aviator......
Story by Lt. Michelle Tucker | Chief of Naval Air Training | 03.11.2021
The Italian navy’s first female strike fighter pilot received her Wings of Gold after completing undergraduate flight training with the “Tigers” of Training Squadron (VT) 9 at Naval Air Station (NAS) Meridian, Mississippi, March 11. Italian navy Ensign Erika Raballo was designated a naval aviator during a small winging ceremony at the base chapel with five classmates marking a......
Courtesy Story | Chief of Naval Air Training | 09.12.2020
Two naval aviators and one naval flight officer received their Wings of Gold during a small ceremony at the National Naval Aviation Museum at Naval Air Station Pensacola, Florida, Sept. 12 as part of this year’s modified Virtual Tailhook Symposium....
Story by Lt. Michelle Tucker | Chief of Naval Air Training | 12.06.2019
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas – The U.S. Navy’s first new accession CMV-22B Osprey pilot graduated from flight school after earning his naval aviator designation at Naval Air Station (NAS) Corpus Christi Dec. 6....
Story by Lt. Kaila Millis | Naval Air Station Whiting Field | 11.22.2019
Training Air Wing (TRAWING) 5 at Naval Air Station Whiting Field celebrated a milestone in Naval Aviation when the 35,000th rotary wing student naval aviator walked across the stage to receive his coveted "Wings of Gold" Nov. 22. Lt. j.g. Robert Woods, a native of Northlake, Illinois, walked off the stage as the Navy’s newest helicopter pilot. He joined 22 other students in achieving the......
Story by Anne Owens and Lt. Michelle Tucker | Chief of Naval Air Training | 05.31.2019
CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas -- A single fouled anchor, surmounted by a shield with 13 stripes, centered on a pair of wings. Those distinctive Wings of Gold represent proficiency and professionalism. They personify Naval Aviation, and that’s why they, along with various other symbols, are protected by the Naval Aviation Trademark Program (NATP)....
Courtesy Story | Chief of Naval Air Training | 12.01.2018
Almost 50 years late, a former Navy officer was pinned with his “Wings of Gold” and presented his official certificate designating him as a naval flight officer (NFO)....
