Airborne Early Warning Squadron One, has been awarded a Meritorious Unit Commendation for weather reconnaissance in the Pacific and airborne early warning support to U.S. Seventh Fleet units in the Tonkin Gulf.
Rear Admiral Carlton B. Jones, ComNavForMariannas, presented the award to VW-1's C.O Commander F. H. Roth, at NAS Agana Guam.
VW-1 was cited for making 269 of 274 fixes assigned by the tropical cyclone reconnaissnace coordinator and for establishing on their own initiative, the locations of 80 potential storms from July to December 1967.
The squadron also provided enemy air and surface surveilance and communications and radar relay to service units in the Tonkin Gulf.
