CH-53K Deployed for its First Exercise

08/18/2022

U.S. Marines with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron (HMH) 461 fly a CH-53K King Stallion at Mountain Home Air Force Base, Idaho, Aug. 8, 2022.

This was the first time the Marine Corps deployed the King Stallion in an exercise.

HMH-461 is a subordinate unit of 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, the aviation combat element of II Marine Expeditionary Force.

MOUNTAIN HOME AIR FORCE BASE, ID

08.08.2022

Video by Cpl. Adam Henke 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing

For an overview of the coming of the CH-53K to the USMC, see the following:

https://defense.info/system-type/rotor-and-tiltrotor-systems/ch-53k/