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Officially Licensed US Navy HSM-74 Swamp Fox Squadron Sticker — Submarine Hunters Turned Combat Helo Warriors
From Cold War sub hunting to sinking Houthi boats in the Red Sea, the Swamp Foxes have always been in the fight.
Helicopter Maritime Strike Squadron 74 (HSM-74) — the ‘Swamp Foxes’ — flies the MH-60R Seahawk multi-mission helicopter out of Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Florida, as part of Carrier Air Wing 3. Established on August 21, 1986, as Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron Light 44 (HSL-44), the squadron spent over two decades deploying SH-60B Seahawk detachments aboard surface combatants across the Atlantic, Mediterranean, and Persian Gulf before being redesignated HSM-74 on June 9, 2011, upon transition to the MH-60R. The Swamp Foxes operate twelve MH-60R helicopters across four combat elements — a carrier element and three independent detachments — each capable of operating autonomously aboard cruisers, destroyers, and the carrier herself. Their primary missions include anti-submarine warfare, anti-surface warfare, and command and control, with secondary missions spanning search and rescue, medical evacuation, vertical replenishment, and communications relay. In October 2023, HSM-74 deployed with CVW-3 aboard USS Dwight D. Eisenhower into the CENTCOM area of responsibility, where they immediately began combat operations against Houthi-Iranian forces in Yemen. The Swamp Foxes fired the first-ever Hellfire missiles in defense of U.S. and coalition assets, engaged and sank three Houthi small boats during a December 31st attack on civilian mariners, flew combat search and rescue during all seven dedicated strike packages into Houthi-controlled Yemen, and rescued 26 civilian mariners from the stricken M/V Tutor — earning the gratitude of a grateful nation across a historic nine-month deployment. This sticker captures the current Swamp Fox identity — a squadron that has evolved from Cold War sub hunter to 21st-century combat helicopter force.
Perfect For: HSM-74 Swamp Fox aircrew and maintainers, MH-60R Seahawk community members, CVW-3 personnel, NAS Jacksonville Sailors, and anyone who respects a squadron that made combat history in the Red Sea.
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