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Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Eight Five
HSC-85 "High Rollers"
A Navy Reserve squadron, HSC-85 flies the Sikorsky MH-60S Knight Hawk. Its mission is the launch and recovery of targets and torpedoes on the Southern California Offshore Range (SCORE).
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The first order of business when visiting a North Island squadron is a stop at the Pass and ID Office for a temporary vehicle pass. Our hostess LCDR Anna Boyd is attempting to explain the purpose of our visit. |
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Those aren't flowers
-- they're ball point pens
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LCDR Boyd welcomes us to
High Roller country
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AW1 Timothy Egner, John Fry
and our hostess
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A couple of Knighthawks in the hangar for routine (I hope) maintainance
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The Point Loma peninsula has been an iconic image
to nearly a century's worth of naval aviators
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Two High Roller Knighthawks on the tarmac |
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I could tell you what this aircraft is
-- but then I'd have to kill you. (Actually
I haven't got a clue)
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