Story by Christopher Jones, Naval Hospital Twentynine Palms CHINA LAKE, California. — A Navy SAR Team (search and rescue) MH-60S Knighthawk assigned to Air Test and Evaluation Squadron (VX) 31 at Naval Air Weapons Station China Lake conducted the rescue (medevac) following the ejection of an F-16 pilot approximately 15 miles east of China Lake. Leer másNavy SAR Team MH-60S rescue (medevac) F-16 pilot near China Lake[…]
Story by Petty Officer 3rd Class Nathaly Cruz, USA Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN — During the U.S. Indo-Pacific Command-led joint exercise Northern Edge 2025 (NE25), MH-60S Knighthawk aircrews from Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 14 (HSC-14) demonstrated the Navy’s advanced search and rescue (SAR) capabilities, establishing an Expeditionary Advanced Base (EAB) in Alaska’s Aleutian Leer másHSC-14 strengthens its SAR capability during Northern Edge 2025[…]
NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. – A Search and Rescue (SAR) MH-60S Knighthawk team from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island conducted the rescue of a hiker along the near Loomis, Washington, on August 10, 2025. The hiker, a 54-year-old man, was experiencing dehydration and stroke-like symptoms after collapsing the previous day following a hike Leer másNAS Whidbey Island SAR MH-60S team rescue hiker near Loomis[…]
NAVAL AIR STATION WHIDBEY ISLAND, Wash. – Search and Rescue (SAR) MH-60S Knighthawk teams from Naval Air Station Whidbey Island conducted two rescues of injured hikers in the North Cascade Mountains, on June 14 and 16, 2025. The first rescue took place on the Eastern Face of Sliver Star Mountain in Okanagan County. A 25-year-old woman Leer másWhidbey SAR MH-60S conducts 2 rescues in Cascade Mountains[…]
In June 2024, U.S. Navy aircrews flying MH-60R Seahawk helicopters conducted the rescue of 22 mariners after two commercial vessels were attacked by Houthis in the southern Red Sea and adjacent Gulf of Aden. A central player in Yemen’s civil war, the Houthis used an unmanned surface vessel to damage and then sink motor vessel Tutor, a Leer másSikorsky recognizes Navy HSM-74 MH-60R crew for rescue mission[…]
SAN DIEGO – A Coast Guard Air Station San Diego MH-60T Jayhawk helicopter aircrew and the crew of the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) rescue 17 migrants and one American aboard a disabled and adrift vessel approximately 50 nautical miles southwest of San Diego. Sunday, March 30, 2025. A 35–foot vessel with 18 individuals Leer másCoast Guard and Navy rescue 18 people off San Diego[…]
SANTA RITA, Guam — Fifteen boaters are safe thanks to the combined efforts of the U.S. Navy HSC-25, good Samaritans from Cabras Marine Corporation, the Saipan Department of Public Safety (DPS) Boating Safety, and the U.S. Coast Guard, following a report they were disabled 15 nautical miles west of Aguijan Island, Commonwealth of the Northern Leer másNavy HSC-25 and responders rescue 15 boaters near Aguijan Island[…]
Story by Senior Chief Petty Officer Jeffrey Richardson, U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa / U.S. 6th Fleet U.S. Navy Sailors from USS Bulkeley (DDG 84) and Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron (HSM-79) provided assistance during the rescue of 31 mariners from adrift vessel during routine operations in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea. July 16, 2024. A MH-60R Seahawk Leer másUSS Bulkeley and a MH-60S from HSM-79 aids in rescue of 31 mariners from adrift vessel[…]
U.S. 5th Fleet RED SEA — U.S. Navy MH-60R Seahawk helicopter aircrew assigned to the Dwight D. Eisenhower Carrier Strike Group (IKECSG) rescue a civilian mariner who was reported overboard from a motor vessel, May 30. The civilian vessel issued a man-overboard distress call. Responding to the call, an MH-60R Seahawk helicopter from Helicopter Maritime Leer másU.S. Navy MH-60R rescue civilian mariner reported overboard[…]
SANTA RITA, Guam — Three missing mariners are safe on April 9, 2024, thanks to the coordination of Coast Guard Forces Micronesia / Sector Guam and the U.S. Navy, after being stranded on Pikelot Atoll, Yap State, Federated States of Micronesia (FSM), for more than a week. Responders successfully located the three mariners on Pikelot Leer másCoast Guard and Navy rescue three missing mariners in Micronesia[…]