HSM-74
Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron Seven Four | |
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Global War on Terror | |
Decorations | [1]
Award
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Website | http://www.public.navy.mil/airfor/hsm74/Pages/default.aspx |
Commanders | |
Commanding Officer | CDR Phillip R Krites |
Executive Officer | CDR Eric Kohut |
Command Master Chief | CMDCM Simone C Milo |
Helicopter Maritime Strike Seven Four (HSM-74), the "Swamp Foxes", is a
aircraft carriers
in support of a carrier strike group. It was established on 21 August 1986 as Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron (Light) Forty Four (HSL-44)
Mission
The squadron employs the
Anti-Surface Warfare (SUW), Command, Control, Communications (CCC), Command and Control Warfare (C2W), Mobility (MOB), and Non-Combat Operations (NCO). Secondary missions consist of Search and Rescue (SAR), Medical Evacuation (MEDEVAC), Vertical Replenishment (VERTREP), Naval Surface Fire Support (NSFS), and Communications Relay (COMREL).[2]
Transition from HSL-44
HSL-44 was redesignated HSM-74 on 9 June 2011 at
SH-60B to the MH-60R, as well as from a detachment-based, expeditionary squadron to its realignment in support of a carrier air wing. As part of this transition, then-HSL-44 relocated to NAS Jacksonville from their previous home of Naval Station Mayport in November 2009.[citation needed
]
General Information
HSM-74 operates twelve
MH-60R helicopters in four combat elements. These combat elements (or CELs) consist of the carrier element and Detachments 1, 2, and 3. The carrier element deploys and maintains five helicopters while the detachments maintain two each. Each CEL can work independently of every other CEL.[citation needed
]
See also
References
- ^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 13 May 2014. Retrieved 13 May 2014.
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: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "MH-60R". Archived from the original on 19 October 2007.
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