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That the fire by Lavington?

Nonsense. There is no business case for exporting petroleum products to Europe. Just ask our former PM…

Well, that explains a bunch of things…

It does open up interesting possibilities, doesn’t it?

The initial decision to go modified response seemed goofy to me.

I hesitate even to ask for a name…

Monsters…

Yeah, I’m not seeing it…

It really depends on the timeframe. I would say that up until 2016, most TACCOs could reliably do both scene of action commander and dip boss (although, in most cases you were stupid to keep SAC one second longer than necessary, when everyone around you had better radios, radars and Tacplots…)

Helicopter Dispatch Service. Aka, haulin trash…

Small diameter bomb, dropped almost vertically from Predator?

I went from Surface warfare to ASW to HDS, briefly to medevac (false alarm) , back to Surface warfare and finally HDS before recovering. We just pulled out the MHCC checklist, briefed each change and carried on. I think that had alot to do with how robustly we were trained. Coming out of 406...

I’d buy EMA.

I would drop the (MH). Helicopters might not always be the solution. It is constricting. It probably should be (Maritime Aviation).

I wasn’t going to get into control terms. Even Loose Advisory, a helo still answers to one of the warfare commanders while airborne and can both be retasked (my record is 5 retaskings in a single mission. We carried out each of the retaskings, completely) and have their control term modified.

In a Task Group construct, helicopters are tasked by the Helo Element Coordinator (HEC), usually the Fleet Air Officer. Who they work for when airborne depends. It is rarely the ship that they launch from. Typically, they will be tasked one of two warfare commanders (which could be assigned to...

I think it actually was tweaked a bit, prior to the current helicopter purchase in the early 2000s, but probably not a great deal.

For reference, the current MH Conops would now be over 2 decades old…

I liked him in the version of Maverick with Mel Gibson. His takedown of the Russia Archduke was a masterclass…

Well, there is that edge case…