page_title: HSM-74
section_title: Transition from HSL-44
hierarchical_section_title: HSM-74 / Transition from HSL-44
caption_attribution_description: English: Squadron insignia of U.S. Navy squadron HSL-44
context_page_description: Helicopter Maritime Strike Seven Four, the "Swamp Foxes", is a United States Navy helicopter squadron based at Naval Air Station Jacksonville, Jacksonville, Florida. HSM-74 is attached to Carrier Air Wing Three and deploys aboard cruisers, destroyers, frigates, and aircraft carriers in support of a carrier strike group. It was established on 21 August 1986 as Helicopter Antisubmarine Squadron Forty Four
context_section_description: HSL-44 was redesignated HSM-74 on 9 June 2011 at Naval Air Station Jacksonville.  The change reflected their transition from employing the SH-60B to the MH-60R, as well a from a detachment-based, expeditionary squadron to its realignment in support of a carrier air wing.  As part of this transition, then-HSL-44 relocated to NAS Jacksonville from their previous home of Naval Station Mayport in November 2009.
caption: Squadron insignia during period of designation as HSL-44
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