Caron (DD 970) - Naval Cruise Book

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s this worth an extra $1 10 a month? Flight Quarters ♦ 13

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Flight Operations Flight Quarters, I | flight quarters, all hands concerned man your flight quarters stations. . . FOD walkdown. ay or night, the flight deck crew was always on call to aunch and recover the helo on short notice. Although no one could really say what they did on those missions, Proud Warrior 423 proved to be an invalu- able asset on the deploy- ment. The Air Depart- ment racked up hundreds oi hours in the air, including one SAR mission that saved a sailor in distress trom his crippled sailboat adrih in the Atlantic. Every hour in the air meant multiple hours on the part of the maintenance crews who kept the aging SH-60 Seahawk airworthy. Of course none oi it would have been possible without the help of CARON ' s flight deck crew, who safley launched and recovered the helo countless times. What do you mean flight ops have been over for an hour? 12 ♦ Flight Quarters

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14 ♦ Officers