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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.