VMA-133 Dragons Patch Handle Heritage Home Ports Air Wings Deployments Aircraft Unit C.O.s Events Awards Squadron Photograph Album Squadron Off-Duty Album (empty) The Squadron Duty Officer (SDO), is the unit's contact point. They maintain unit rosters, help old friends link up, coordinate with unit reunions, and gather unit information. The SDO List. The Association is particularly interested in your Skyhawk related information and photos, but will gladly accept information about all eras of the unit. e-Mail the Association Webmaster. AND we welcome "anyone with an interest" in the Skyhawk to JOIN The Skyhawk Association. VMSB-133 - Date Unknown Provided by John Gabbard Patch No additional info Back to Table of Contents Handle Dragons Back to Table of Contents Heritage VMTB-133 WWII, de-activated 01AUG45 VMA-133 Dragons (Reserves); MAG-49 (Regulars) VMA-133, MAG 42 of the 4th MAW 1992: VMA-133 disestablished. Back to Table of Contents Home Ports Unknown to 1992?: NAS Alameda, CA. 1992? : MCAS Yuma Back to Table of Contents Air Wings Circa 1977-79: "ME" tail code Back to Table of Contents Deployments Back to Table of Contents Aircraft 19??: Douglas A-4F Skyhawk 1989: Douglas A-4M Skyhawk Back to Table of Contents Commanding Officers Back to Table of Contents Events 01AUG1945: VMTB-133 de-activated. 1992: Disestablished. 1975 I was attached to the VMA-133 dragons in 1975. The squadron patch was a dragon with Skyhawks buzzing around it. When I first got there in June we had A-4 Charlies, but when the USS Hornet was decomissioned, I think 1976, we got 14 A-4 Foxtrots from it. Our reserve unti was the air support for the east coast grunts, and Cherry Point aircraft were the air support for the 29 Palms grunts in the 200th Marine Corps anniversary war games [2week atd] in MCAS Yuma, AZ. The comandant ordered live ordinance to be dropped close enough to the grunts so that they could "see it, smell it, and taste it!!!". Our XO came back from one of the 28 sorties a day we ran, with a 20mm round in his dashboard, knocking out all his avionics and had to land on visuals only. There was also a F-4 Phantom II that came in with one main strut [right] stuck and went down on its wing half way thru landing and spun out on the runway. I dont know which squadron it was with. There were fighter squardrons based full time at Yuma, one I saw had a skull and/or crossbones on the tailfin. I think it was VMF-211, but not certain. The temp was a mild 115 degrees during this 2 week war game. On flight line I was the CO's p/c, bird 00. David Jones Back to Table of Contents Awards Back to Table of Contents Sources David Jones Return To The Marine Units Page