Norfolk Virginia HH-60H ‘Rescue Hawk’

Norfolk Virginia HH-60H ‘Rescue Hawk’ poster art.

Naval Station Norfolk, in Norfolk, Virginia, is a U.S Naval base, supporting naval forces in the U.S. Fleet Forces Command, those operating in the Atlantic Ocean, Mediterranean Sea, and Indian Ocean. NS Norfolk, also known as the Norfolk Naval Base, occupies about four miles of waterfront space and seven miles of pier and wharf space of the Hampton Roads peninsula known as “Sewell’s Point”. It is the world’s largest naval station, supporting 75 ships and 134 aircraft alongside 14 piers and 11 aircraft hangars, and houses the largest concentration of U.S. Naval forces. Port Services controls more than 3,100 ships’ movements annually as they arrive and depart their berths.

The HH-60H ‘Rescue Hawk’ is a variant of the SH-60F Sea Hawk. Brought into service in the early 1990s, the airframe is in widespread use throughout the U.S. active Naval and Reserve forces, including the 2 USNR squadrons that are dedicated to special operations (HSC-84 and HSC-85).