Diamondback Stories are submitted by our squadron mates.
Submit your Stories to 1965diamondback@gmail.com
- God Bless Corporal Schwartz - April 2024 (docx)
- Commercial Airline Military Support and One of Our Own - January 2023 (docx)
- VMA-131 Remembered - September 2022 (docx)
- VMA-131 Incident at Tent City MCAS Cherry Point 1970 (docx)
- Last Night Summer 1969 At Roosey Roads (docx)
- VMA-131 Attacks USN Carrier Group - January 2022 (docx)
- Some of our pilots did these types of training exercises! - Febraury 2022 (docx)
- Little Known Seat Shop Flight Line Prank - May 2021 (docx)
- Hot Fueling - February 2021 (docx)
Posted 2020 & Before
- 55 Years ago today MARTD NY took on the Greenie Beanies - November 2020 (docx)
- A4 vs A7 Comments and link to article - November 2020 (docx)
- Green Marines of Paris Island in the sixties - November 2020 (docx)
- Earning the Title - April 2020 (docx)
- Thank You Our Motor Head Marines March 2020 (docx)
- A4 Restoration at NAS NY (docx)
- Earl Robert Smith Shares (docx)
- Ken Udcoff Shares His VMA-132 Memories (docx)
- Lineage of Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 131 (pdf)
- VMA-131 1970 Callup (docx)
- My Best and Worst Libierties (docx)
- ZERO Velocity (docx)
- 4 July 1966 in the Barracks (docx)
- 1965 NAS Jacksonville Sick Bay Call (docx)
From Brian Putney’s VMA-131 Diamondbacks website, preserved by the Skyhawk Association.