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The Royal Maces present the teaser to our full-length 2013-2014 cruise video: "Shoot 'Em If You Got 'Em" - which is packed with more than 27 minutes of high-flying and fast-action.
It will be made available at the NAF Atsugi Spring Festival, May 3rd, and also via the VFA-27 Public Affairs Office at vfa27pao-AT-gmail.com. Enjoy!
Apr. 22, 2014 1:45pm
The VFA-27 Royal Maces, based at Naval Air Facility Atsugi in Japan,
recorded the in-cockpit F/A18-E footage over a number of locations in the Pacific theater,
including some dramatic footage of the jets banking and turning over the Japanese Alps.
The video,
appropriately titled “Shoot ‘Em if You Got ‘Em,”
has more than 175,000 hits since it was uploaded over the weekend.
“It’s fun to look back and see all the things you’ve done in the last year and remember the good side of all of it, especially as we’ve traveled around spreading goodwill in the Asia Pacific region,”
Lt. David Tarr, the squadron assistant operations officer, told TheBlaze.
Tarr put the high-energy compilation together.
He blended footage from recent patrols while the squadron was deployed with the aircraft carrier USS George Washington, trips along the Australian coast and various parts of Japan, with help from other pilots who purchased and mounted the cameras.
Tarr said all the footage was captured during routine training and flying “within the bounds of the regulations applicable for the areas and types of operations being conducted.”
In other words, this cool stuff is all in a day’s work for fighter pilots.
“It’s a low-level route we fly all the time — it just happened to be a pretty day,” said Lt. Kyle Matson, who captured some of the footage in the cockpit.
The five-minute video is a teaser for a 27-minute show the squadron will unveil at NAF Atsugi’s Spring Festival on May 3, which is open to the public.
Tarr said he expects the “Japanese fans” will really appreciate the footage.
“We are in fact guests in their country … we actually have a little fan club and they enjoy seeing this stuff too, so we actually (made a copy) as a gift for them,” Tarr said.
The full video will include more low-level flying, carrier operations and footage from the squadron’s work in the Philippines while aiding the recovery efforts following Typhoon Haiyan in the Philippines.
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