A helicopter from the HSM-77 squadron prepares to lift off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier Abraham Lincoln. Navy photoNavy Helicopter Pilots See Their Profile Rise -- Sign On San Diego
Careers up with role on carriers
Their $33 million helicopters are new. There’s an aircraft-carrier briefing room with their name on the door now. And they get extra parking spaces on the multimillion-dollar real estate of the carrier flight deck.
All the attention feels a little odd, Navy helicopter pilots say.
“We’re not used to being the story,” said Cmdr. Ken Strong, executive officer of HSM-77, a San Diego-based squadron of MH-60R Seahawks.
It’s a good time to be flying helicopters for the Navy.
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