17th Marine Starfighter Squadron

The 17th Marine Starfighter Squadron, callsign Flashknife, was a starfighter attached to the Republic Marines' 5th Marine Aerospace Wing. Throughout its operational history, the 17th tended toward assignments that saw them serving as supplementary forces on frontier garrison posts on the Outer Rim of the. Like all Marine starfighter units, they were also assigned to carrier duty aboard warships when the need arose.