VMCJ-2 — The Bunny Appears

VMAQ-2 "Playboys / Panthers / Death Jesters" · USMC · 1955

The moment everything changed. 1955 delivered two things at once — the squadron's redesignation as VMCJ-2 and the debut of Playboy magazine — and the unit adopted the Playboy name and Bunny logo, reportedly with the magazine's permission. White on black, clean and iconic, the silhouette became the soul of Marine electronic warfare. It stuck, and it never left.