Despite a robust history of support to combat operations, including combat search and rescue strip alert during Operations DESERT SHIELD and DESERT STORM, special operations support during UPHOLD DEMOCRACY, and performing both missions during three years of constant support to Joint Special Operations Air Detachment, Arabian Peninsula (JSOAD-AP) during IRAQI FREEDOM, HCS-5 was disestablished December 31, 2006, leaving HCS-4, now re-designated HSC-84, as the sole Navy squadron dedicated to special operations support.