 VC @-@ 5 made the first of its three deployments to Port Lyautey in February 1951 . Fleet Composite Squadron SIX ( VC @-@ 6 ) received its first Savages in late 1950 and deployed to Port Lyautey in October 1951 before transferring to the Pacific Fleet in October 1952 . In July 1953 it deployed a detachment of two aircraft to K @-@ 3 Air Base in Korea to act as a nuclear deterrent . VC @-@ 7 , VC @-@ 8 , and VC @-@ 9 received their AJ @-@ 1s beginning in June 1951 and all remained on the East Coast of the United States . The Navy redesignated all of its Savage @-@ equipped composite squadrons as heavy attack squadrons ( VAH ) on 1 November 1955 . The squadrons retained their existing numbers except for VC @-@ 8 which became VAH @-@ 11 as all East Coast squadrons were odd @-@ numbered . 
