Mickey Rooney went down swinging right next to William Holden.
I also don't understand the remark about the ready room door. I was on a small boat and the helo guy's had their own ready room.
Mickey Rooney went down swinging right next to William Holden.
I also don't understand the remark about the ready room door. I was on a small boat and the helo guy's had their own ready room.
Yeah, they've always had their own ready rooms on carriers, at least every carrier I've been on.
This is bigger news for the HSL/M wing. As the HSL squadrons lose their Bravos and become HSM Romeo squadrons, they're going to be carrier deployable. The whole H60 community is changing and it's a good community to be in right now. In the old navy, carriers deployed with an HS squadron of 7-8 helos. They handled anti-sub warfare, SAR, CSAR, plane guard, vert/rep, H/VBSS and other operations. Now the HS squadrons are losing their Hotels and Foxtrots and gaining Sierras and becoming HSC squadrons. They're giving up their anti-sub duties to the HSM guys and taking on more surface armament to handle CSAR (Combat search and rescue). It's been a while since I was in the HS community so I'm not 100% sure what the new HSC mission is but I'm seeing the MH-60 Sierras armed with dual M299 Hellfire missile launchers as well as the GAU-17 miniguns.
In short, carriers are now deploying with both an HSC and an HSM squadron. Where they used to deploy with 7-8 helos, they're now deploying with twice as many. Of course, the navy is still going to need helos on the smallboys as well. So this means the navy is going to need to buy more helos. It's a good time to work for Sikorsky.
I was army so I don’t know about the ready room, but my brother was crew chief on a ASW Sea Stallion.
