The “Wolf Pack” of Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM) 75 was presented the Naval Air Force Pacific 2013 Battle Efficiency award, or Battle “E”, June 19, at Naval Air Station North Island, Calif.
“This squadron is remarkable,” said Commander, Naval Air Forces, Vice Adm. David H. Buss. “When I think about what we had envisioned in naval aviation in terms of the standup of the HSM community, that is exactly what the ‘Wolf Pack’ did last year in Nimitz’s Strike Group.”
The men and women of HSM-75 deployed combat-ready detachments aboard five Carrier Strike Group 11 ships in support of national objectives. During the 2013 Western Pacific Deployment, HSM-75 conducted 252 consecutive days of deployed flight operations. The squadron completed 72,199 maintenance man-hours in the execution of 8,043 flight hours over 2,567 sorties.