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Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 28 (HSC-28)

Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 28 (HSC-28) poster art.

When sailors first discovered Octopus they had no idea what this creature was. They could only associate it with things they knew, it was mystifying like a dragon and lumbered through the sea like a whale. Before they were called Octopus for their eight legs, they we’re known to those at sea as “Dragon Whales!” Helicopter Combat Support Squadron (HC) 8 was redesignated, in early 2005 as Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 28 (HSC-28 The “Dragon Whales!”) as part of a merger of the HC and helicopter anti-submarine (HS) communities. The change came as a result of the introduction of the MH-60S “Knighthawk”, replacing the CH-46D “Sea Knight”, UH-3H Sea King and the SH-60F Seahawk, and the future introduction of the MH-60R Seahawk, which is replacing the SH-60B Seahawk.