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HS squadrons
- Thread starter mike172
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Where is Bevo when we need him....
"Bevoooo...Where are You? Time to toot your own horn!!!!"
Visit this thread and all the wonders of helo ops will be made known to you...
http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12910
"Bevoooo...Where are You? Time to toot your own horn!!!!"
Visit this thread and all the wonders of helo ops will be made known to you...
http://www.airwarriors.com/forum/showthread.php?t=12910
Didn't I hear something about a new type of diesals that are making things difficult for us to track? What about basically the entire Pacific coast in Asia?
ASW is starting to make a come back, and will slowly start trickling down to the fleet.
Day to day an HS squadron flies plane guard. Then maybe a couple log runs. Then when cool stuff goes down maybe you take some SEALs somewhere, or you stand some CSAR strip alerts, or take down some ships.
Overall it is pretty cool. I think in the Navy it gives you the most exposure to the most types of helo missions, but it makes you a jack of all trades.
Day to day an HS squadron flies plane guard. Then maybe a couple log runs. Then when cool stuff goes down maybe you take some SEALs somewhere, or you stand some CSAR strip alerts, or take down some ships.
Overall it is pretty cool. I think in the Navy it gives you the most exposure to the most types of helo missions, but it makes you a jack of all trades.
Oh, I'm sorry. CSAR = Combat Search and Rescue (i.e. rescuing people behind enemy lines). Taking down a ship is conducting an HVBSS (Heliborne Visit, Board, Search and Seizure) of a non cooperative ship (i.e. take control of it because we think it has terrorists, weapons, we have even done it for ships in violation the Iraqi oil embargo of the 90's)
HH and I are always going back and forth about HS vs HSL. I still say that HSL gives an equal number of mission availablities, it's just some are different missions (CSAR vs ASU/surface classification and targeting). And on the Pacific side of things, ASW is definitely a top priority.
CSAR stands for Combat Search and Rescue. Basically going over the beach and picking up a friendly in bad guy land, either with, or by SEALs, or some other direct action troops. Very sexy.
(And I can read the forums again! Thanks John!)
EDIT: Bah, you beat me to it.
CSAR stands for Combat Search and Rescue. Basically going over the beach and picking up a friendly in bad guy land, either with, or by SEALs, or some other direct action troops. Very sexy.
(And I can read the forums again! Thanks John!)
EDIT: Bah, you beat me to it.
Just a quick clarification gatordev. Additional troops/SEALs are not required for most of the CSAR ops that the Navy advertises it is capable of. In a battle group, err strike group, SEALs are so hard to come by we might never be able to pick anyone up if we had to wait for them.
Well, it doesn't mean we are doing it all in the same day. But we maintain a certain number of crews qualed in all of those missions. You can only do so much with 6/7 helos. What exactly are you talking about in Iraq? I know of a couple different Navy helo missions in Iraq.