Basic Cadet Training Squadrons-Flights-Doolie Squadrons
A little help here … what were the names of the BCT summer squadrons in 1972? And which flights went to which doolie squadrons? I can only remember my own (GUTS!) and C and D Flights for sure. And some of the names may have changed between the summers of ’72 and ’75 when I was a Flight Commander in INTERCEPTORS (in ’72 were they INVADERS?).
| 1972 BCT SQUADRONS | A FLT | B FLT | C FLT | D FLT |
| A–AVENGERS (?) | ||||
| B–BANDITS | CS-09 | |||
| C–COBRAS (?) | ||||
| D–DEMONS (?) | ||||
| E–EXECUTIONERS (?) | ||||
| F– | ||||
| G–GUTS | CS-30 | CS-31 | ||
| H–HELLCATS | ||||
| I–INTERCEPTORS | ||||
| J–JAGUARS |
“Permanent” Squadrons and Nickname Migration
Source: Polaris yearbooks
| VANDENBERG HALL | 1972-73 | 1975-76 | |
| CS-1 | Fabulous First | Griffins | changed |
| CS-2 | Deuce | Deuce | |
| CS-3 | Thirsty Third | Third | |
| CS-4 | Fightin’ Fourth | Fightin’ Fourth | |
| CS-5 | Frat Five | Wolfpack | changed |
| CS-6 | Bull Six | Bull Six | |
| CS-7 | Seagram’s Seven | Samurai | changed |
| CS-8 | Evil Eight | Eagle Eight | changed |
| CS-9 | Nooky Niner | Niners | changed |
| CS-10 | Tiger Ten | Tiger Ten | |
| CS-11 | Rebeleleven | Rebeleleven | |
| CS-12 | Dirty Dozen | Dirty Dozen | |
| CS-13 | Bulldogs | Bulldogs | |
| CS-14 | Cobras | Cobras | |
| CS-15 | War Eagles | Wareagles | |
| CS-16 | Chickenhawks | Chickenhawks | |
| CS-17 | Stalag 17 | Stalag Seventeen | |
| CS-18 | Horny 18 Toads | Stallions | changed |
| CS-19 | Playboys | Starship Nineteen | changed |
| CS-20 | Trolls | Tough Trolls | changed |
| CS-21 | Blackjack | Blackjack | |
| CS-22 | Double Deuce | Double Deuce | |
| CS-23 | Crash and Burn | Barnstormers | changed |
| CS-24 | Phantoms | Phantoms | |
| NEW DORM | New Dorm | SIJAN HALL | Dedicated 31 May 1976 |
| CS-25 | Redeye | Redeye | |
| CS-26 | Barons | Barons | |
| CS-27 | Thunderbirds | Thunderbirds | |
| CS-28 | Twenty Eight | Twenty Eight | |
| CS-29 | Black Panthers | Panthers | changed |
| CS-30 | Dirty Thirty | Dirty Thirty | |
| CS-31 | Grim Reapers | Grim Reapers | |
| CS-32 | Roadrunners | Roadrunners | |
| CS-33 | Thirty Three | Cellar Rats | changed |
| CS-34 | Loose Hogs | Razorbacks | changed |
| CS-35 | Party Squadron | Wild Weasels | changed |
| CS-36 | Pink Panthers | Pink Panthers | |
| CS-37 | Smilers | Smilers | |
| CS-38 | All Stars | All Stars | |
| CS-39 | Campus Radicals | Campus Radicals | |
| CS-40 | Ali Baba | Ali Baba |