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U.S. Navy Broncos
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In 1968, the Navy initiated pilot training in order to use Broncos to support SEAL and Riverine operations in the Mekong Delta, first deploying OV-10s (initially borrowed from the Marines) in January 1969 as part of VAL-4 (this new Light Attack Squadron became known as the Black Ponies.) VAL-4 operated the OV-10 in Vietnam until April 1972, at which point the aircraft returned to duty with the Marines. VS-41 was the Navy training RAG for Broncos, operating out of NAS North Island in Coronado, CA. After the war the Navy withdrew it from front-line service but continued to use it for weapons testing and development.
The OV-10 Technical Reports section was written by members of VAL-4 and contains tons of great information on this unit, including an organizational chart. An account of an August 1970 training crash involving an aircraft from VS-41 can be found here.
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