VAW-123 Screwtop JOPA patch helantisubron with its powerful engine

with its powerful engine

1st MAW air command and control personnel

Heavy lift in Iraq

who commanded 3rd Battalion during the brutal fighting on Iwo Jima

VAW-123 Screwtop JOPA patch helantisubron with its powerful engineVAW 123 Screwtop JOPA Patch Junior Officers Running the Show The JOPA of VAW 123 keeps the Screwtops running because junior officers do the real work. This Junior Officers Protection Association (JOPA) patch from Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 123 (VAW 123), the Screwtops, celebrates the time honored military tradition of junior officer solidarity. JOPA is the unofficial fraternity of JOs who do the bulk of the squadron's operational flying,