Go watch the HSC community video I posted in another thread. Good footage of what @lowflier detailed. Also, that video is a good optic in to what HSC is trying to market.
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Should I stay or should I go? Or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying And Love HSC.
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I always figured that was the best way to make peace between the SWTP and what you actually did in the real world.
Just watched the HSM community video you posted (with all Romeos). It was the one with Millennial background music. Was there an HSC video?
More recently, HSC did stuff IVO Libya also, but that is the extent of what can be said here. EMIO is a bit like the NAAD, it is more complicated than HS vs HSC because at least 3 different squadrons rotated through the mission during it's existence.
DEATH BLOSSOM!
At least that is what we figured the buoy launcher in the B would do if we lost the tail rotor and hit the "jettison all stores sono" button.
The HSC one should be a post or two before the HSM video
Copy. When I was a DH, one of the other DHs (former HS guy) had done that as a HS guy.
The Med in general has definitely received its fair share of rotary attention the last year or 3.
FIFY
Software is no longer an issue.
Everyone wants GAU-17s in the windows. Imagine going out with a minigun and a long gun on each side for FIAC defense? NO WINGS!
As my old squadron's FAC/FIAC SME referred to them . . . "Assholes with jetskis."
You mean like when the MC-12 went down in Iraq in ‘16 and the Peshmerga secured the crash site so the CSAR helo could pick up the crew after getting their pilot proficiency landings in?
Armed Helo’s are great for FAC/FIAC around the strike group. Obviously overland quals help to legitimize the funding expenditure for that program. It’s one thing to dabble in or do the mission in a pinch but Navy helo pilots shouldn’t expect more than one off incidents where they’re relied upon. When it comes down to it the Army and the Air Force are far better funded to train and equip for overland missions.
It’s telling that the one RW guy who has spent most of his career actually doing what HSC wishes it did liked the above post.You mean like when the MC-12 went down in Iraq in ‘16 and the Peshmerga secured the crash site so the CSAR helo could pick up the crew after getting their pilot proficiency landings in?
Armed Helo’s are great for FAC/FIAC around the strike group. Obviously overland quals help to legitimize the funding expenditure for that program. It’s one thing to dabble in or do the mission in a pinch but Navy helo pilots shouldn’t expect more than one off incidents where they’re relied upon. When it comes down to it the Army and the Air Force are far better funded to train and equip for overland missions.
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With the myriad mission sets HSC guys try to do, I'm wondering how much flight time a JO in a CVW HSC squadron is getting each month. During maintenance phase, workups, and deployment? Is there enough flight time to go around that would ever come close to being enough to yield proficiency (or basic safety) in all those missions? CVW HSC squadrons have, what, 30 pilots?
So much truth there.
They weren’t when I left, nor would I say we did when I was there. We spent the vast majority of our time making right hand turns, or jumping in the pattern to see how many approaches we could get in one bag.
There were very few proficiency flights, and almost always it was a currency flight.
I’d be very interested to see what their NCEA is for the rockets and the cannon. No way in hell I’d want to be around someone that doesn’t get to shoot often.
At 85 I think we popped off over a million rounds of 7.62 in a year, and it was evident with our gunners.