Assigned to Carrier Airwing TWO aboard in 2005 , the squadron provided relief support to the citizens of Indonesia devastated by a tsunami on 26 December 2004 . Flying the SH-60F and HH-60H the squadron conducted 231 medevacs of displaced refugees , moved 475,000 lbs of disaster relief cargo , and flew 1010.9 hours in a 31-day period . 10,000 lives were saved in the first ten days . On 6 August 2009 , the squadron completed its transition from the SH-60F and HH-60H to the MH-60S Seahawk helicopter and was re-designated HSC-12 ending its long history as Anti-Submarine Squadron . As a Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron , HSC-12 's missions are now Anti-Surface Warfare , Search and Rescue , Combat Search and Rescue , Naval Special Warfare Support and Vertical Repleneshment . After the transition and re-designation , HSC-12 was reassigned from CVW-2 to Carrier Air Wing Five ( CVW-5 ) based aboard Naval Air Facility Atsugi in Kanagawa Prefecture , Japan . It now deploys aboard USS Ronald Reagan ( CVN-76 )
tsunami on 26 December 2004
2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami
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