{"id":177176,"date":"2014-08-22T04:00:42","date_gmt":"2014-08-21T18:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=177176"},"modified":"2014-08-22T04:00:42","modified_gmt":"2014-08-21T18:00:42","slug":"helicopter-sea-combat-squadron-25-holds-change-command-ceremony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/helicopter-sea-combat-squadron-25-holds-change-command-ceremony\/","title":{"rendered":"Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 holds change of command ceremony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE\u2014Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 held a change of command ceremony at the squadron\u2019s hangar aboard Andersen Air Force Base on Aug. 21. <\/p>\n<p>During the ceremony, Cmdr. Gabriel Soltero relieved Cmdr. Gregory Leland as commanding officer of HSC-25.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_177178\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-177178\" style=\"width: 150px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/08\/Change-pix-copy-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"The Andersen Blue Knights Honor Guard Team posts the colors during the Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 change of command ceremony. Cmdr. Gabriel Soltero relieved Cmdr. Gregory Leland as HSC-25\u2019s commanding officer. (U.S. NAVY\/LT. MONICA MONDLOCH)\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-177178\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-177178\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Andersen Blue Knights Honor Guard Team posts the colors during the Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 change of command ceremony. Cmdr. Gabriel Soltero relieved Cmdr. Gregory Leland as HSC-25\u2019s commanding officer. (U.S. NAVY\/LT. MONICA MONDLOCH)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Since Leland, a native of Marlborough, Mass., assumed command of HSC-25 in November 2013, he has overseen the deployment of three squadron armed helicopter detachments for year-round support to USS Bonhomme Richard (LHD 6) and two other detachments aboard USNS Charles Drew (T-AKE 10) and USNS Washington Chambers (T-AKE 11). He also oversaw the 24-hour search-and-rescue and medevac alert for the Northern Mariana Islands, resulting in five SARs, 16 medevacs and 34 lives saved.<\/p>\n<p>Leland\u2019s next assignment is at the Pentagon in Washington, D.C.<\/p>\n<p>Soltero, a native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, assumed command of HSC-25 after attending the Naval War College in Newport, R.I., where he earned a master\u2019s degree in national security and strategic studies. Before the War College, he served as the commanding officer of HSC-15 at Naval Air Station North Island in Coronado, Calif. <\/p>\n<p>HSC-25 is the Navy\u2019s only forward-deployed MH-60S expeditionary squadron. As part of Helicopter Sea Combat Wing Pacific, it provides an armed helicopter capability for U.S. 7th Fleet in support of anti-surface warfare, personnel recovery, special operation forces missions and humanitarian assistance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ANDERSEN AIR FORCE BASE\u2014Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 25 held a change of command ceremony at&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":177178,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[46,121,90],"class_list":["post-177176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-ceremony","tag-northern-mariana-islands","tag-puerto-rico"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177176\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177178"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}