Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 465
"Warhorse"
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History |
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1. December 1981 |
HMH-465 Established at MCAS Tustin CA |
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| 1981 - today | YJ |
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CH-53D
CH-53E
| HMH-465 Deployments | ||||
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| HMH-465 Commanding Officers | ||
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History |
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Activated 1. December 1981 at MCAS Tustin, California, as Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 465, and assigned to Marine Aircraft Group 16, 3d Marine Aircraft Wing, Fleet Marine Force, Pacific. Since activating in 1981, HMH-465 has been home-based with MAG-16. During Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm The "Warhorses" were based at Ras al Ghar, Saudi Arabia. The squadron lost two CH-53Es in accidents prior to the start of the ground war. In October 1991, the squadron left for Okinawa to begin the first WestPac Unit Deployment by a CH-53E squadron. Throughout the 1990s HMH-465 deployed detachments to 29 Palms Air-Ground Combat Center, MCAS Yuma, and the Mountain Warfare Training Center at Bridgeport, CA. The squadron also augmented the West Coast Marine Expeditionary Units' WestPac deployments. HMH-465 was deployed to Iraq in 2003 and flew troop and cargo lifts in support Marine forces. |