Helicopter squadron is renamed

Posted on Apr 20 2005

GUAM—A redesignation ceremony to rename Helicopter Combat Support Squadron 5 to Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 will be held today, April 21, 10am, at the command’s hangar on Andersen Air Force Base.

The command, the only forward-deployed vertical replenishment squadron in the U.S. Navy, will continue to provide forward-deployed logistic capability and Naval special warfare support for U.S. Pacific Fleet as well as 24-hour, search-and-rescue assistance for Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands. It will later support mine countermeasures and combat search-and-rescue missions.

The squadron was established at the former Naval Air Station on Feb. 3, 1984, and moved to Andersen Air Force Base in November 1994.

The command, with “Island Knights” as its new call sign, is home to more than 500 active-duty personnel and 14 MH-60S Knighthawks, the Navy’s newest helicopter.

Cmdr. Shoshana Chatfield, the squadron’s first female commanding officer, will be speaking at the ceremony.

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