Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron Eight (HSC-8) "Eightballers" is a United States Navy helicopter squadron based at Naval Air Station North Island, San Diego, California. HSC-8 is attached to Carrier Air Wing 11 (CVW-11) and deploys aboard USSÂ Theodore Roosevelt. HSC-8 was redesignated from HS-8 on 28 September 2007.
An MH-60S Seahawk Helicopter conducts VERTREP Operations
HSC-8 redesignation ceremony 28 September 2007.
M240 machine gun is fired from a SH-60F Sea Hawk assigned to the "Eightballers" of Helicopter Anti-Submarine Squadron Eight (HS-8) during a training exercise. 2003
A rescue swimmer is lifted up to an HS-8 SH-60F.
Naval Air Station North Island
Naval Air Station North Island or NAS North Island, at the north end of the Coronado peninsula on San Diego Bay in San Diego, California, is part of the largest aerospace-industrial complex in the United States Navy – Naval Base Coronado (NBC), and the home port of several aircraft carriers of the United States Navy.
Three US Navy Nimitz-class aircraft carriers, USS Carl Vinson (CVN-70), USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76), and USS John C. Stennis (CVN-74) pierside at NAS North Island during June 2015
USS Thach and the NAS as seen from Cabrillo National Monument
Construction of the seaplane ramp in 1918
USS Langley at North Island, 1925
