Blackhawks.The Blackhawks of HM-15 participated in GOMEX GOMEX Gulf of Mexico Exercise 04-1, a mine countermeasures (MCM (MultiChip Module or MicroChip Module) A chip package that contains several bare chips mounted close together on a substrate (base) of some kind. ) exercise held off the coast of Panama City Beach, Fla., in December 2003. The exercise included five MCM ships and two explosive ordinance units from Ingleside, Texas, as well as four MH-53E Sea Dragon helicopters, right, and associated minehunting Employment of sensor and neutralization systems, whether air, surface, or subsurface, to locate and dispose of individual mines. Minehunting is conducted to eliminate mines in a known field when sweeping is not feasible or desirable, or to verify the presence or absence of mines in a and minesweeping equipment from HM-15. The highlight of the exercise occurred when the Blackhawks quickly located four exercise mines that had been covertly planted by opposing forces in the vicinity of Wasp (LHD LHD abbr. Latin Litterarum Humaniorum Doctor (Doctor of Humanities; Doctor of Humane Letters) 1). Throughout the exercise HM-15 met all airborne mine countermeasures taskings despite heavy wind and sea conditions that hampered some MCM operations. |
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