VMAQ-2 "Can Do Over"

Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 (VMAQ-2), "Playboys" / "Panthers" / "Death Jesters" · USMC · 1993

Marine Tactical Electronic Warfare Squadron 2 jammed enemy radar from the EA-6B Prowler out of MCAS Cherry Point under the motto "Can Do Easy," a phrase inherited from its VMCJ-2 years, when the squadron took the Playboy name and bunny with the magazine's written permission in 1955. This unofficial morale patch bends that motto to "Can Do Over" and hands it to a caveman who has just chiseled a stone wheel and, picturing the bunny, asks "What can we do with it?" — squadron-shop humor from a unit ordered in 1993 to surrender the emblem it had worn for thirty-eight years and reinvent itself, first as the "Panthers" and later the "Death Jesters." The bunny went on appearing on flight jackets and tailfins regardless, right through the Corps' last Prowler flight and VMAQ-2's deactivation on 8 March 2019.