With smaller SAGs stationed farther apart in a Sea Control or Maritime Basing scenario, read “grunts on the ground” as “sailors at sea” away from LHDs or CVNs. Fortunately, progress is being made:
This is just bizarre. AWs complain about being Plane Captains because it takes away from their tactical training time, so the PC requirement goes away. Now they want to become Paramedics? It's a two-year training curriculum, has constant CEC requirements, AND it's not something you can do without constantly practicing the skill, which takes more time. That isn't even covering how not all paramedics are equal and can do the same things (or are capable of it).
Too bad the helo community doesn’t take SAR seriously, though
No body has said that. You keep coming back to this. What was asked was why that mission, the one that's executed some large percentage of time, isn't appreciated for what it is: saving lives. The answer is easy, it's not sexy and the saving lives part rarely happens.
Just going to let the irony sink in here... But you can go back to telling HSC they’re being dumb to train to mission sets it rarely does (CSAR, CAS, HVBSS, SOF Support).
Let's stop conflating "HSC," missions that are and aren't even trained to, and missions that are trained to but not executed normally. Sometimes it's tough to figure out if your posts are truly defending "HSC" or if they're defending what your squadron does. I'm sure you'd agree that the two are not the same.