Relief Effort H-60 Crash

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

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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