It was a standard Navy day, at least to me it was. You know, rolling out of your mosquito-net-guarded cot in a hangar of 500 Soldiers and Sailors in a city where the nearest ocean was an eight-hour flight away. The HSG-26 Det 1 "Desert Hawks" were deployed in support of the Pakistan earthquake relief. We had been living the high quality of life our Army advertises. Our living facility was a single hangar that had been transformed into barracks. The hangar had no running water, so we took three wooden pallets and tied down 100-gallon coolers on top to make showers. We ate chicken and rice three times a day. The flight tempo had been high, and with our two aircraft detachment, we were rotating three crews for nearly seven hours of flight time, per aircraft, each day. After supporting the relief effort for two weeks, my crew was used to our new way of life. The days began with a 0500 formation and intelligence brief. These formations generally were made of mixed aircraft, and for my flight today, we were flying a three aircraft formation of one Army CH-47, one Navy MH-53, and my MH-60S Dash 3. Our first of many missions of the day was to depart the airfield at Qasim, fly 10 miles north of Chaklala to pick up the cargo load, and then get further tasking. After we arrived at Chaklala and received our tasking, the formation departed for our second predetermined LZ flight to the north to drop food and other essential items.
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机译：那是海军标准的一天，至少对我来说是这样。您知道的是，在距离最近的海洋有8小时飞行路程的城市中，在有500名士兵和水手的机库中从蚊帐保护的婴儿床中推出。部署了HSG-26 Det 1“沙漠鹰”以支持巴基斯坦的地震救济。我们一直过着陆军宣传的高质量生活。我们的生活设施只有一个机库，后来变成了军营。机库没有自来水，所以我们拿了三个木制托盘，并在上面系上100加仑的冷却器进行淋浴。我们每天吃鸡肉和米饭三次。飞行节奏很高，在我们的两架飞机脱离后，我们每天要轮换三名机组人员，每架飞机的飞行时间将近七个小时。在为救济工作提供了两个星期的支持后，我的工作人员习惯了我们的新生活方式。日子从0500编队和情报摘要开始。这些编队通常是由混合飞机组成的，在今天的飞行中，我们将飞行3架编队，分别是陆军CH-47，海军MH-53和我的MH-60S Dash 3。一天是要离开卡西姆机场，飞向查克拉拉以北10英里处以接载货物，然后再派遣更多任务。在我们到达Chaklala并接受任务后，该编队出发前往北空进行第二次预定的LZ飞行，以运送食物和其他必需品。
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