Can someone ID these squadron markings?

Factual Questions
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This just barely qualifies as a GQ. Just.

Anyway, I was watching an old music video the other day (for Pearl Jam’s “Do the Evolution”), which briefly features a pair of jets making a napalm drop. They’re obviously based on A-4s, with some technical differences. (Such as a different wing design, and ahem helicopter rotors.)

Now, what I was wondering is: are the paint jobs on the aircraft based on any real squadron markings?

Here’s a screencap: Mystery markings.

Now, there’s a red circle on the side of the fuselage (suggestive of the Japanese “meatball”), and a blueish shape on the tail, with a yellow “J” beneath.

It’s a long shot that it’s based on anything real, I know. But I just thought I’d check.

Anyone have any thoughts?

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There is an emblem or decal or shoulder patch of some sort that is a red circle, (perhaps a drum top?) with a pair of crossed tomahawks or war clubs (or peace pipes?) that I have seen. Unfortunately, I have not been able to find it in a search. I am not even sure that the emblem I’ve seen was a Navy or Marine emblem and my hazy memory actually associates it with either the Army or a police force.

To me, the red circles on the engine fairings of your painting appear to have the same sort of crossed devices in a dark color near the top of the circle.

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The red disc is certainly Japanese. And I don’t seem to recall any other airforces that use a purely red disc as part of their markings.

Of course, at no point did the Japan Air Self Defence force use A-4s.

Looking through some pictures of both new and old JASDF aircraft, I don’t see any markings similar to the ones in the picture you linked.

My opinion is that it’s a composite of a bunch of different sources, put together just to look cool.

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Well, I have figured out what it was that jogged my memory, although I have still not discoverd a link to an image.

This Indian shield from the logo for Oglala Lakota College is close. The shield (not drum) that I remember had the tomahawk/pipes higher on the shield with no other markings, crossing a t broader angle so that the handles were closer to the rim of the shield.

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[QUOTE=tomndebb]
I am not even sure that the emblem I’ve seen was a Navy or Marine emblem and my hazy memory actually associates it with either the Army or a police force.
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tomndebb, this site is just an amazing assortment of insignia from pretty much all of the branches in most of the wars we’ve fought. Could you have seen a shoulder patch from the 84th ID?

Tripler
But that squadron marking in the OP? I’d chalk it up to imaginative Japanimation–not a real squadron.