Round shaped, gold colored coin 1-3/4 inches in diameter. Click to enlarge
Unit/Organization Information
  • II Marine Expeditionary Force
  • Marine Aircraft Group 31 (MAG-31)
  • 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW)
  • Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 332
Location
Coin Location: 13B6 X
Homebase: MCAS Beaufort, South Carolina
Deployment: Al Asad Air Base, Iraq
Additional Information
Date Acquired: Prior to 21 March 2008
Donated by: MAJ Whiteman
Copies: 1 of 2
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Marine All Weather Fighter Attack Squadron 332 (VMFA(AW)-332) is a United States Marine Corps F/A-18 Hornet squadron. Also known as the "Moonlighters", the squadron is based at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort, South Carolina and is attached to Marine Aircraft Group 31 (MAG-31), 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing (2nd MAW).

During just 7 months of combat operations, which included both the Iraqi Constitutional Referendum and National elections, the Moonlighters participated in such named Operations as Rivergate, Iron Fist, Steel Curtain, Blue Devil, Trifecta, Tigers, Skinner, Spider Web and Liberty Express. During this deployment, the "Moonlighters" flew 2406 sorties for a total of 6031.9 hours. The squadron departed the Al Anbar province successfully on February 11, 2006 with another combat deployment of zero missed sorties. The total ordnance expended for the deployment was: 50 GBU-38s, 270 GBU-12s, 23 AGM-65s, 10 5" rockets, 2 GBU-16s, 6 GBU-32s, 16 LUU-19s and 7640 rounds of 20mm for a total of 160,966 lbs of ordnance. During the deployment they used the combat callsign of "Dealers."