Relief Effort H-60 Crash

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>The MH-60Ss involved are from HC-11. There are SH-60Fs and HH-60Hs
from HS-2 >on the Kennedy, and SH-60Bs from HSL-47 also operating from
the Kennedy (presumably they would normally be based on the escorts).


Not exactly true - when I read the "Forward... from the sea..."
vision, I felt the Navy is going to put more helicopters aboard
carriers when S-3B Vikings are retired. And such scenario probably
happens now.

A detachment from HSL-47 deploys with CVW-2 not for the first time
(already deployed aboard Constellation, too), and now a det. from
HSL-51 was also integrated into CVW-5. So it seems putting more SH-60B
Seahawks aboard carriers might be a common practice in future.

What is surprising me is the number - the news say about 15 or 17
Seahawks operating from Lincoln. I guess the number belonging to the
carrier itself must be smaller - about 4-5 SH-60F, 2-3 HH-60H and 2-3
SH-60B - not more. The rest of the helos (I belive they are SH-60B and
MH-60S) may be assigned to smaller ships, but temporarily using
Lincoln as "bigger, more convenient kind of airport" and logistics
base.

I hope I guess right...
Best regards,

Jacek Zemlo

[Jim Carriere]

wrote:
> What is surprising me is the number - the news say about 15 or 17
> Seahawks operating from Lincoln. I guess the number belonging to the
> carrier itself must be smaller - about 4-5 SH-60F, 2-3 HH-60H and 2-3
> SH-60B - not more. The rest of the helos (I belive they are SH-60B and
> MH-60S) may be assigned to smaller ships, but temporarily using
> Lincoln as "bigger, more convenient kind of airport" and logistics
> base.

I believe the number of 60Bs on board the Lincoln is greater than
only 2-3.

A couple of my friends who detached from HSL-47 recently talk about
it. Of course, it isn't appropriate for me to say exactly how many
aircraft of which types are embarked (even if I did remember the
precise number) on this newsgroup. :) Detachments from the same
squadron are also distributed in the battlegroup smallboys.

This is different from HSL in the past, when dets from _different_
squadrons would be embarked on smallboy assets in one battlegroup but
not on the carrier. HSL-37 and 51 (Hawaii and Japan) have always
operated a little differently than this since they are alone, ie no
sister squadrons next door.

The idea of deploying an entire HSL squadron on a CV was in the works when I
retired from HSL 42 in 1996 and it is just now starting to come to fruition.
HSL-44 will be the first east coast squadron to try the idea. Eventually
you will see the HS and HSL communities combine into one squadron with a mix
of SH-60F's, MH-60's and SH-60B's. The Bravo's will det out tot he small
boys while the Foxtrots and MH-60's will remain on the carrier. If and when
the SH-60R's hit the fleet it will replace both the Foxtrot and Bravo's.

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