Officially Licensed USS Constitution Old Ironsides Patch Backing:No Hook & Loop 3rd Marines

3rd Marines

With experimental and developmental aircraft flying from Pax River daily

flying RF-4B Phantom reconnaissance aircraft and EA-6A Intruder electronic warfare aircraft

and multi-engine procedures

and families who kept the Harrier in the fight

Officially Licensed USS Constitution Old Ironsides Patch Backing:No Hook & Loop 3rd MarinesOfficially Licensed USS Constitution Old Ironsides Patch US Navy Historic Warship Embroidered Patch Old Ironsides the oldest commissioned warship afloat in the world. USS Constitution, launched in 1797, is a three masted wooden frigate that earned the nickname "Old Ironsides" during the War of 1812 when enemy cannonballs were seen bouncing off her thick oak hull. Still commissioned and homeported in Boston, Massachusetts, the Constitution is the U. S.