Rank 13 in the Aviation Heroes collection, this print honours Marine Attack Training Squadron 203 — the Hawks — and the AV-8B+ Harrier II that taught a generation of USMC aviators to fly vectored thrust from amphibious ready groups. Based at MCAS Cherry Point under MAG-14 and 2nd MAW, VMAT-203 carried the radio callsign Mars and stood as the Corps' Harrier training pipeline before the community's transition toward F-35B Lightning II. The AV-8B+ brought LITENING targeting and precision GBU-12 delivery to a platform already famous for vertical and short takeoff from LHA decks — second-generation jump-jet engineering built on the Anglo-American Harrier lineage.