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This is a collection of six skins representing Five units in the Vietnam War. Each skin represents an airframe on which one of the crewmembers was awarded the Medal of Honor. The skins included are: US Army 82nd Medical Detachment (Air Ambulance) US Army 2/17th Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division US Army 173rd Assault Helicopter Company, 1st Aviation Regiment US Army 229th Aviation Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (#775) US Army 229th Aviation Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (#888) USMC Marine Observation Squadron Six (VMO-6) I have added the names and ranks (at the time) of the pilots and co-pilots of these airframes at the time of the action. While I have attempted to be as accurate as these gentlemen deserve, I may have made some incorrect assumptions (this is especially true about the co-pilots, who are not as easily found in the public record). Likewise, I was unable to accurately represent GySgt Leroy Poulson and LCpl John Phelps of VMO-6, as the door gunner textures do not support it. If you see any inaccuracies, please let me know so that I may correct them. All reference imagery and much of the research was taken from http://vietnam-hueys... Honor page.htm The Airframes and the Medal of Honor Recipients: 82nd Medical Detachment (Air Ambulance) CW3 Michael Novosel - October 2, 1969 CW3 Michael Novosel was pilot-in-command of of a UH-1H med evac Huey with the 82nd Medical Detachment in 1969. On October 2, he went to the assistance of a group of wounded South Vietnamese soldiers that were pinned down by an enemy force concealed in a series of bunkers. Flying without any gunship cover, he made repeated runs against heavy enemy fire to pick up the wounded. Near the end of the action, he spotted a wounded ARVN soldier near an enemy bunker. He maneuvered the ship near the wounded man and a crewman reached down to grab and lift the wounded soldier into the aircraft. During the maneuver the aircraft was hit by enemy fire and CW3 Novosel was wounded. In all, Michael Novosel and his crew made 15 extractions in the face of enemy fire, saving 29 wounded South Vietnamese soldiers. He was awarded the Medal of Honor in 1971. 2/17th Cavalry, 101st Airborne Division Sp4 Joseph G. LaPointe - June 2, 1969 Sp4 Joseph "Guy" LaPointe was a medic with Headquarters Troop, 2nd Squadron, 17th Cavalry. On June 2, 1969, he was just one day from going on leave to meet his wife and new son. However, SP4 LaPointe volunteered for a mission that day because his replacement was a new guy without any field experience. The patrol landed on the top of Hill 376, near the famous "Hamburger Hill" battle site. Sweeping away from the hilltop LZ, the point man walked into a fire zone from concealed enemy bunkers. Two more men were quickly wounded and "Doc" LaPointe moved forward to aid his wounded buddies. He put himself between the enemy bunkers and the wounded, and began working on the wounded. He was soon hit by enemy fire, but ignoring his own wounds he continued to shield his buddies while tending their wounds. He was hit by a second burst of fire and knocked away from his friends. He crawled back to the wounded again and once more shielded them from enemy fire while resuming his aid. This time an enemy grenade landed among the group, mortally wounding them all, including Doc LaPointe. He was awarded the Medal of Honor posthumously on December 16, 1971. 173rd Assault Helicopter Company, 1st Aviation Regiment PFC Gary Wetzel - January 8, 1968 PFC (later Sp4c) Gary Wetzel was a door gunner on "Robin Hood 866" in January, 1968. He was nearing the end of his second tour when his helicopter was hit by an enemy RPG rocket while landing in a hot LZ with an insertion team. The grounded helicopter was hit repeatedly by enemy fire and the pilot, Bill Dismukes, was wounded. As PFC Wetzel went to the assistance of his pilot, another enemy rocket impacted the ship just behind the pilot's seat. Wetzel was blown out of the helicopter, suffering severe wounds to his right arm, chest and legs, and his left arm was almost severed from his body - hanging only by a flap of skin. In spite of his multiple wounds, Wetzel climbed back into the damaged ship and took an enemy automatic weapon position under fire with his door gun. The enemy gun had the American troops pinned and Wetzel was able to destroy it with his fire. Wetzel then tried to go to the aid of his pilot again, but passed out from loss of blood. When he regained consciousness, his crew chief was dragging the wounded pilot to the shelter of a nearby dike. Wetzel crawled over and attempted to help the crew chief move the pilot to safety, but passed out a second time. After he and the other survivors were rescued, Wetzel's left arm was amputated and he spent five months in military hospitals recovering from his injuries and infections. Gary Wetzel was awarded the Medal of Honor on November 19, 1968. 229th Aviation Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (#775) Captain Ed Freeman - November 14, 1965 Captain Ed Freeman served as Second-in-command of A Company, 229th Aviation Battalion in 1965-66. On November 14, 1965, he flew in support of LTC Hal Moore and the 1/7th Cavalry fighting against three battalions of NVA at LZ X-Ray in the Ia Drang Valley. Captain Freeman flew 14 missions into the face of enemy fire over the course of the first day to deliver much needed ammo and water, and to evacuate wounded soldiers. He was eventually awarded the Medal of Honor for his actions at LZ X-Ray on July 16, 2001. US Army 229th Aviation Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division (#888) Major Bruce Crandall - November 14, 1965 Major Bruce Crandall was commander of A Company, 229th Aviation Battalion, on November 14, 1965 at LZ X-Ray. With Captain Freeman's ship following him, Major Crandall flew 14 mission into the hot LZ , taking intense enemy fire to deliver supplies and evacuate wounded from the battle. As his ship was damaged by enemy fire (his crew chief was also wounded on one flight), Major Crandall was forced to switch to another aircraft. He flew a total of three different ships in his effort to support the troops at LZ X-Ray. Major Crandall was finally awarded the Medal of Honor on February 26, 2007. USMC Marine Observation Squadron Six (VMO-6) Captain Stephen Pless, USMC - August 19, 1967 On the afternoon of August 19, 1967, Captain Steve Pless and his crew were flying medevac escort near Quang Ngai (south of Chu Lai in I Corps). On the way to a pick-up of wounded ROK Marines, they heard an emergency call on the "Guard" channel from a transport helicopter. It had set down to make repairs on the beach, and was attacked by a large number of VC. Four Americans had been left on the ground when the ship took off, and they were being overrun by the enemy. Determining that the H-34 they were escorting could make the initial medevac pick-up without their support, Pless and his crew decided to respond to the emergency call. As they approached the site they could see the enemy beating and hacking at the four American prisoners. Pless took his gunship into a gun and rocket run, targeting a large group of VC in the clearing. Driving the enemy off with his gun run, Pless landed between the Americans and the enemy. Gunnery Sergeant Poulson jumped out and ran to support the single American still capable of walking. Putting the American on board the aircraft, Poulson, followed by the copilot and other crewman raced to help the other Americans. Determining one of the Americans to be dead, the three crewman began carrying the two injured Americans toward their Huey. At this point the VC attacked and tried to overrun the crew and helicopter. Pulling out their side arms, the crew alternately dragged the injured Americans and fired at oncoming VC. Some of the enemy came within a few feet of their Huey while they were loading the injured aboard. When all were aboard, Pless applied power to his grossly overloaded Huey and took off over the water. The skids of the ship touched the water four times before he finally got the aircraft to gain altitude. Pless jetisoned his rocket pods and ordered the crew to throw out all unnecessary items from the cabin. They landed the injured at Chu Lai First hospital and returned to their base at Ky Ha. The next day Pless and his crew learned that 20 VC dead had been found on the beach with evidence of many more enemy casualties being dragged off. Captain Pless was promoted to Major in September, 1967, and was awarded the Medal of Honor on January 19, 1969. The rest of his crew, Captain Rupert Fairfield, GySgt Leroy Poulson and LCpl John Phelps were all awarded the Navy Cross. Skinner's Philosophy: Because the 3D models used for the aircrew utilize modern flight gear I have chosen to model the skins as "modern aircraft with nostalgic patterns", as opposed to actual Vietnam era skins.. The significance of this is that I have chosen to skin the aircrew in contemporary flight uniforms. I felt that this was more fitting in a setting that involves modern orders of battle, and is also less of an immersion-killer than seeing Vietnam era "uniforms" on clearly modern objects. A note about the Crew Chiefs & Door Gunners: Since enlisted US troops don't wear rank/rate insignia on flightsuits, their rank/rate is displayed on their nametag. Since there are no specific nametag textures for the crew chief/door gunner texture, I have added a nametag to the velcro on the chest armor (as is standard practice). In the case of the VMO-6 skin, since I have the names of all crewmembers, I opted to put GySGt Poulson on the nametag. This is the result of a coin flip and should not be considered a slight to LCpl Phelps, who was awarded the Navy Cross as well as GySgt Poulson. In choosing names for the other textures, I opted for US servicemembers who received the Medal of Honor. SFC Paul Smith received the Medal of Honor posthumously in the Global War on Terror, and represents the United States Army in these skins. Sergeant First Class Paul R. Smith distinguished himself by acts of gallantry and intrepidity above and beyond the call of duty in action with an armed enemy near Baghdad International Airport, Baghdad, Iraq on April 4, 2003. On that day, Sergeant First Class Smith was engaged in the construction of a prisoner of war holding area when his Task Force was violently attacked by a company-sized enemy force. Realizing the vulnerability of over 100 soldiers, Sergeant First Class Smith quickly organized a hasty defense consisting of two platoons of soldiers, one Bradley Fighting Vehicle and three armored personnel carriers. As the fight developed, Sergeant First Class Smith braved hostile enemy fire to personally engage the enemy with hand grenades and anti-tank weapons, and organized the evacuation of three wounded soldiers from an armored personnel carrier struck by a rocket propelled grenade and a 60 mm mortar round. Fearing the enemy would overrun their defenses, Sergeant First Class Smith moved under withering enemy fire to man a .50 caliber machine gun mounted on a damaged armored personnel carrier. In total disregard for his own life, he maintained his exposed position in order to engage the attacking enemy force. During this action, he was mortally wounded. His courageous actions helped defeat the enemy attack, and resulted in as many as 50 enemy soldiers killed, while allowing the safe withdrawal of numerous wounded soldiers. Sergeant First Class Smith's extraordinary heroism and uncommon valor are in keeping with the highest traditions of the military service and reflect great credit upon himself, the Third Infantry Division 'Rock of the Marne,' and the United States Army. Updating from Earlier Versions: Version 1.21 or earlier: Remove the folder "Army 101AD_LaPointe" prior to installation. Version 1.02 or earlier: DCS World 1.2.7 changes the pilot and gunner texture files, so the textures have been updated accordingly in this file. In order to clear out the obsolete files, go to the individual folders and remove the following files: Gunner_UH1_*.dds Pilot_UH1_USMC.dds Installation: Copy the folders (except for TempTextures; see below) to your Liveries\uh-1h folder (either in DCS World\Bazar or Saved Games\DCS). Optional: I have included files that have (IMHO) improved the textures of the pilots and door gunners. They now wear the standard green and grey nomex flight gloves and have pencil pockets on their left sleeves, similar to my USN and USMC uniform textures. Additionally, I included a 1st Cavalry patch that blocks the alpha channel for the First Sergeant rank, which removes sleeve rank insignia from the gunners' flightsuits (enlisted folks in the US services don't wear rank insignia on flightsuits). To enable these textures, just copy the contents of the _Optional\TempTextures folder to your DCS World\Bazar\TempTextures folder. To disable the textures, just delete them from TempTextures and the default textures will be used instead. Optional: The release of DCS World 1.2.4 added the ability to add texture paths using the file "autoexec.cfg" in your Saved Games\DCS\Config folder. This will allow you to save hard drive space as long as the skin filenames are unique. My skins support this, so any DDS file with the same name will be identical. In order to enable this feature, add the following line to autoexec.cfg (be sure to create the file if it doesn't exist): table.insert(options.graphics.VFSTexturePaths, "C:/Users/<username>/Saved Games/DCS/Textures") You can use any path (even a different drive), but you must use forward slashes for your path. Backslashes won't work here. Then, you can move all of the DDS files from each of the skin folders to this new folder you've added to your path. Allowing overwrites is not a problem, as I use unique names for each file. Finally, be sure to go into each description.lua file and change all "false" entries to "true." Special thanks to upuaut for assistance with the more "exotic" material names, as well as the assistance with custom rotor colors. You are free to use any of the textures (e.g. USMC door gunner) in other skins or projects as long as proper credit is provided in the readme file. -Home Fries

This is a collection of seven skins representing US Marine Corps squadrons and spanning the length of the Vietnam War. The squadrons included are: VMO-2 VMO-3 (which became HML-367) VMO-6 HML-167 I have included two versions of HML-367: a 1968 version (when VMO-3 was redesignated as HML-367) and a 1975 version that flew in Operation: Frequent Wind, the evacuation of Saigon. Additionally, HML-167 is represented by modexes TV-29 and TV-30. Most reference imagery was taken from http://vietnam-hueys...Corps Hueys.htm Skinner's Philosophy: I chose to model the skins as "modern aircraft with nostalgic patterns", as opposed to actual Vietnam era skins. This is because the UH-1H (and not the UH-1E) is modeled, and slso because the 3D models used for the aircrew utilize more modern flight gear. The significance of this is that I have chosen to skin the aircrew in contemporary flight uniforms, including MARPAT body armor for the door gunners. I felt that this was more fitting in a setting that involves modern orders of battle, and is also less of an immersion-killer than seeing Vietnam era "uniforms" on clearly modern equipment. A note about the Crew Chief & Door Gunner: Since enlisted US troops don't wear rank/rate insignia on flightsuits, their rank/rate is displayed on their nametag. Since there are no specific nametag textures for the crew chief/door gunner texture, I have added a nametag to the velcro on the chest armor (as is standard practice). In choosing names for the texture, I opted for US servicemembers who received the Medal of Honor. CPL Jason Dunham was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor in the Global War on Terror, and with the exception VMO-6 (represented by GySgt Leroy Paulson, who was the actual crew chief), represents the Unites States Marine Corps in these skins. The following is his Medal of Honor citation: For conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity at the risk of his life above and beyond the call of duty while serving as Rifle Squad Leader, 4th Platoon, Company K, Third Battalion, Seventh Marines (Reinforced), Regimental Combat Team 7, First Marine Division (Reinforced), on 14 April 2004. Corporal Dunham's squad was conducting a reconnaissance mission in the town of Karabilah, Iraq, when they heard rocket-propelled grenade and small arms fire erupt approximately two kilometers to the west. Corporal Dunham led his Combined Anti-Armor Team towards the engagement to provide fire support to their Battalion Commander's convoy, which had been ambushed as it was traveling to Camp Husaybah. As Corporal Dunham and his Marines advanced, they quickly began to receive enemy fire. Corporal Dunham ordered his squad to dismount their vehicles and led one of his fire teams on foot several blocks south of the ambushed convoy. Discovering seven Iraqi vehicles in a column attempting to depart, Corporal Dunham and his team stopped the vehicles to search them for weapons. As they approached the vehicles, an insurgent leaped out and attacked Corporal Dunham. Corporal Dunham wrestled the insurgent to the ground and in the ensuing struggle saw the insurgent release a grenade. Corporal Dunham immediately alerted his fellow Marines to the threat. Aware of the imminent danger and without hesitation, Corporal Dunham covered the grenade with his helmet and body, bearing the brunt of the explosion and shielding his Marines from the blast. In an ultimate and selfless act of bravery in which he was mortally wounded, he saved the lives of at least two fellow Marines. By his undaunted courage, intrepid fighting spirit, and unwavering devotion to duty, Corporal Dunham gallantly gave his life for his country, thereby reflecting great credit upon himself and upholding the highest traditions of the Marine Corps and the United States Naval Service. CPL Dunham is also the namesake of the USS Jason Dunham (DDG-109), the Marine Corps Security Force barracks in Kings Bay, GA, and Crucible stations at both MCRD Parris Island and MCRD San Diego. Updating from Version 1.04 or earlier: DCS World 1.2.7 changes the pilot and gunner texture files, so the textures have been updated accordingly in this file. In order to clear out the obsolete files, go to the individual folders and remove the following files: Gunner_UH1_*.dds Pilot_UH1_USMC.dds Installation: Copy the folders to your Liveries\uh-1h folder (either in DCS World\Bazar or Saved Games\DCS). Optional: The release of DCS World 1.2.4 added the ability to add texture paths using the file "autoexec.cfg" in your Saved Games\DCS\Config folder. This will allow you to save hard drive space as long as the skin filenames are unique. My skins support this, so any DDS file with the same name will be identical. In order to enable this feature, add the following line to autoexec.cfg (be sure to create the file if it doesn't exist): table.insert(options.graphics.VFSTexturePaths, "C:/Users/<username>/Saved Games/DCS/Textures") You can use any path (even a different drive), but you must use forward slashes for your path. Backslashes won't work here. Then, you can move all of the DDS files from each of the skin folders to this new folder you've added to your path. Allowing overwrites is not a problem, as I use unique names for each file. Finally, be sure to go into each description.lua file and change all "false" entries to "true." Special thanks to upuaut for assistance with the more "exotic" material names, as well as the assistance with custom rotor colors. You are free to use any of the textures (e.g. USMC door gunner) in other skins or projects as long as proper credit is provided in the readme file. -Home Fries

Latest version is only compatible with DCS World 1.2.4 and later. For 1.2.3 users, be sure to download version 1.02. ModMan 7.3 with the November 2012 update is required to use this mod. If you arent using ModMan 7.3 (Nov 2012), then see the bottom of this file for manual installation instructions. This mod adds squadrons and patches to the selectable units in the player logbook, and replaces the default squadron line art with actual squadron patches. Units included employ the A-10, F-14, F-15, F/A-18, or the UH-1. The following units have been added: US Air Force: 1st FS Fightin' Furies 2d FS American Beagles 5th FIS Spittin' Kittens 7th FS/TFS Screaming Demons 8th FS/TFS Black Sheep 9th TFS Flying Knights 12th FS Dirty Dozen 18th TFS 19th FS Fighting Gamecocks 22d FS Stingers 25th FS Assam Draggins 32d TFS Wolfhounds 43d FS American Hornets 44th FS Vampires 47th FS/TFS Termites 48th FIS Tazlanglian Devils 53d FS NATO Tigers 54th FS Alaska's First Guardians 57th FIS Black Knights 65th Aggressor Sqn. 66th Weapons Sqn. 67th FS Fighting Cocks 74th FS Flying Tigers 75th FS Tiger Sharks 76th FS Vanguards 78th TFS Bushmasters 81st FS Panthers 91st TFS Blue Streaks 92d TFS Skulls 95th FS Boneheads 101st Fighter Sqn. MA ANG 103d FS Black Hogs PA ANG 104th FS Fighting Orioles MD ANG 107th FS Red Devils MI ANG 110th FS Lindbergh's Own 114th FS Eagle Beavers OR ANG 122d FS Bayou Militia LA ANG 123d FS Redhawks OR ANG 131st FS Death Vipers MA ANG 159th FS Jaguars FL ANG 184th FS Flying Razorbacks AR ANG 186th FS Vigilantes MT ANG 199th FS Mai Tai's HI ANG 303d FS KC Hawgs 318th FIS Green Dragons 354th FS Bulldogs 355th FS Fightin' Falcons 357th FS Dragons 358th FS Lobos 390th FS Wild Boars 433d WS Satan's Angels 493d FS Grim Reapers 509th Tactical Fighter Sqn. 510th FS/TFS Buzzards 511th Tactical Fighter Sqn. 525th FS Bulldogs 1st Fighter Wing (FF) 3d Wing (AK) 10th Tactical Fighter Wing (AR) 18th Fighter Wing (ZZ) 18th Operations Group (ZZ) 23d Tactical Fighter Wing (EL) 23d Wing (FT) 33d Fighter Wing (EG) 48th Air Expeditionary Wing (LN) 49th Tactical Fighter Wing (HO) 52d Fighter Wing (SP) 81st Tactical Fighter Wing (WR) 104th Fighter Wing (MA) 131st Fighter Wing (SL) 142d Fighter Wing ("Oregon") 175th Wing (MD) US Navy: VF-1 Wolfpack VF/VFA-2 Bounty Hunters VF/VFA-11 Red Rippers VF/VFA-14 Tophatters VFA-15 Valions VF-21 Freelancers VFA-22 Fighting Redcocks VF-24 Renegades VFA-25 Fist of the Fleet VFA-27 Royal Maces VF/VFA-31 Tomcatters VF/VFA-32 Swordsmen VF-33 Starfighters VFA-34 Blue Blasters VFA-37 Ragin' Bulls VF/VFA-41 Black Aces VF-51 Screaming Eagles VF-71 Be-Devilers VFA-72 Blue Hawks VFA-81 Sunliners VFA-82 Marauders VFA-83 Rampagers VF-84 Jolly Rogers (pre-1995) VFA-86 Sidewinders VFA-87 Golden Warriors VFA-94 Mighty Shrikes VFA-97 Warhawks VF-101 Grim Reapers VF/VFA-102 Diamondbacks VF-103 Sluggers (pre-1995) VF/VFA-103 Jolly Rogers (post-1995) VFA-105 Gunslingers VFA-106 Gladiators VF-111 Sundowners VFA-113 Stingers VF-114 Aardvarks VFA-115 Eagles VFA-122 Flying Eagles VF-124 Gunfighters VFA-125 Rough Raiders VFA-127 Desert Bogies VFA-131 Wildcats VFA-132 Privateers VFA-136 Knighthawks VFA-137 Kestrels VF-142 Ghostriders VF/VFA-143 Pukin' Dogs VFA-146 Blue Diamonds VFA-147 Argonauts VFA-151 Vigilantes VF/VFA-154 Black Knights VFA-161 Chargers VF-191 Satan's Kittens VFA-192 Golden Dragons VF-194 Red Lightning VFA-195 Dambusters VF/VFA-201 Hunters VF-202 Superheats VFA-203 Blue Dolphins VFA-204 River Rattlers VF/VFA-211 Checkmates VF/VFA-213 Black Lions VF-301 Devil's Disciples VF-302 Stallions VFA-303 Golden Hawks VFA-305 Lobos VF-1285 Fighting Fubijars Carrier Air Wing 1 (AB) Carrier Air Wing 2 (NE) Carrier Air Wing 3 (AC) Carrier Air Wing 5 (NF) Carrier Air Wing 7 (AG) Carrier Air Wing 8 (AJ) Carrier Air Wing 9 (NG) Carrier Air Wing 11 (NH) Carrier Air Wing 14 (NK) Carrier Air Wing 17 (AA/NA) US Marine Corps: VMFAT-101 Sharpshooters VMFA-112 Cowboys VMFA-115 Silver Eagles VMFA/VMFA(AW)-121 Green Knights VMFA-122 Crusaders/Werewolves VMFA-134 Smoke VMFA-142 Flying Gators VMFA-212 Lancers VMFA(AW)-224 Bengals VMFA(AW)-225 Vikings VMFA-232 Red Devils VMFA-235 Death Angels VMFA(AW)-242 Bats VMFA-251 Thunderbolts VMFA-312 Checkerboards VMFA-314 Black Knights VMFA-321 Hell's Angels VMFA(AW)-322 Moonlighters VMFA-323 Death Rattlers VMFA-333 Fighting Shamrocks VMFA-531 Grey Ghosts VMFA(AW)-533 Hawks Additionally, I copied the USA selectable patches from Ka-50 Black Shark and added them to the selectable units. This should hopefully suffice until DCS World can read the USA.lua files from multiple modules (DCS World as of 1.2.3.9871 only reads from "A-10C." I also added some UH-1/HH-1 units for the UH-1 Huey module: 20th Special Operations Sqn. (USAF) HA(L)-3 Seawolves (USN) HA(L)-5 Blue Hawks (USN) HML-367 Scarface (USMC) HML-767 Nomads (USMC) HML-770 Sock Eye (USMC) HML-771 Hummers (USMC) HML-776 Gangsters (USMC) VMO-2 Cherry Deuce (USMC) VMO-3 Scarface (USMC) VMO-6 Tomcats (USMC) 1st Cavalry Div. (Airmobile) 10th Mountain Div. 101st Airborne Div. (Air Assault) Finally, I added a number of aircraft type patches (e.g. F-14 Tomcat) as selectable units, expanding the list of selectable airframes. Special thanks to Outcast and Killer_R, whose FC2 mod of similar type inspired me to do this mod. I have also used Outcast/Killer_R's USA.lua from FC2 as the starting point for my determination of which A-10/F-15 units would be included in this mod. However, all included graphics are my own edits taken from public sites in accordance with the FAIR USE act. Manual Installation (1.2.4+): If you wish to manually install this mod, then back up the following files/folders in DCS World: \Scripts\Database\Troops\USA.lua \MissionEditor\data\images\Countries\USA\Troops (entire folder) Manual Removal (1.2.4+): 1. Copy your backup USA.lua to \Scripts\Database\Troops\, allowing overwrite. Optional (the files don't hurt anything, but can be removed in the interests of storage space): 2. Delete the contents of your \MissionEditor\data\images\Countries\USA\Troops folder (you did back them up, right?) 3. Copy your backups to the \MissionEditor\data\images\Countries\USA\Troops folder.

This is a skin pack for the MV-22 Osprey representing the Marine Tiltrotor Squadron 265 (VMM-265 "Dragons"), stationed in MCAS Futenma, Okinawa. Two texture sets are included: standard low-viz squadron markings and the CAG Bird (pictured above). Get the Osprey for SF2 here: http://combatace.com/files/file/11685-mv-22-for-sf2/ Credits: Zurawski for MV-22 Nengajyou for skins and decals

Avionics Mod for the AV-8A and AV-8S Harrier mods by Wrench which are based on the stock ThirdWire Harrier GR.1 This avionics mod contains enhanced HUD's and several changes to the data and cockpit inis. Read the included READ.txt for further info. The AV-8A can be found here: http://combatace.com/files/file/11938-av-8a-harrier-for-sf2/ The AV-8S can be found here: http://combatace.com/files/file/11939-av-8s-matador-spanish-navy-harrier/ Special thanks to ravenclaw_007 for making the LAU-7 launcher specifically for this mod

Republic F-7M 'Thunderpig' for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 This is a very simple mod of the stock MiG-27 to give a fictional Republic F-7M 'Thunderpig' as it might have appeared in service with the USMC at the time of Operation Desert Storm in 1991. Two units are covered, VMFA-333 'Shamrocks' and VMFA-451 'Warlords'. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the F-7M folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the F-7M folder into your Decals folder. That's it! CREDITS As always, thanks to Third Wire for a great little game/sim. And, finally, thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 2 - 23/05/2020 Version 1 - 25/08/2011

McDonnell Douglas F-4L (USMC/USN) Phantom for STRIKE FIGHTERS 2 This is a simple mod of the stock Third Wire F-4M_75 to give a fictional USMC Phantom F-4L with markings for VMFA-333 'Shamrocks'. Also included is a USN VF-111 scheme that generally uses stock decals but is included here to give a blank F-4L tail for you to do other squadrons by using stock decals. It goes without saying that you will need to have the F-4M_75 from SF2:Europe. BACKSTORY With all the considerable design effort being put into the marriage of the Phantom airframe and the Rolls-Royce Spey turbofan engine McDonnell Douglas thought it might be a good idea to propose a version to the US Navy to allow the Phantom to operate from the smaller carriers that were limited to F-8E Crusaders. In June 1966 the designation F-4L was given to the proposed Spey-powered Phantom and in October 1966 an initial order for 130 F-4L's (USN/USMC) was made, followed by an unexpected export order of 30 F-4L's for the Royal Australian Navy. Deliveries to the US Navy commenced in February 1969 with VF-24 becoming the first operational squadron followed by VMFA-333. By this time the wisdom of operating such a relatively large aircraft on the older, smaller carriers was being questioned and most F-4L's served aboard the larger carriers or with land-based units. When the decision was made not to re-equip the USMC 'fighter-attack' Phantom squadrons with the hugely expensive Grumman F-14A Tomcat, McDonnell Douglas pushed hard for low-rate production of the F-4L to continue specifically for USMC use and they were eventually successful meaning that production continued until 1976 with an eventual total of 306 F-4L's being built. Apart from Australia, F-4L's also served with the Royal Air Force where 15 ex-USN F-4L's were sold to the UK Government to allow the formation of an additional home-based Phantom squadron to release a squadron for the defence of the Falkand Isles. INSTRUCTIONS 1. From the AIRCRAFT folder drag and drop the F-4L_75 folder into your Aircraft folder. 2. From the DECALS folder drag and drop the F-4L_75 folder into your Decals folder. That's it! CREDITS As always, thanks to Third Wire for a great little game/sim. And, finally, thanks to everyone in the wider Third Wire community. Regards Spinners Version 2 - February 17th, 2024.