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Senate Calls for Additional HH-60Gs for Air National Guard

Frank Wolfe

Monday, July 1st, 2019

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Senate Calls for Additional HH-60Gs for Air National Guard

The Sikorsky HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter. (Sikorsky)

The Senate is calling for additional Sikorsky [LMT] HH-60G Pave Hawk combat search and rescue helicopters (CSAR) for the Air National Guard to account for delays in the HH-60W Combat Rescue Helicopter program and planned replacements of HH-60Gs lost in combat. “It is the sense of Congress that, given delays to Operational Loss Replacement (OLR) program fielding and the on-time fielding of Combat Rescue Helicopter (CRH), the Air National Guard should retain additional HH–60G helicopters at Air National Guard locations…

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