https://www.nhahistoricalsociety.org/commanding-officer-history-listing/

 

Good topic Jim and Carl.

At NHAHS, this area in general, the people who had command at all levels from the rotary and vertical lift community has been an interest of ours, historically.  When the current website was created during 2016-2018, NHAHS worked off research done by one of our list members, CAPT Tom Ford, USN (Ret.) who not only providing word files for all COs and Commanders etc. for the Navy up through 2020, but provided the same data for the Marine Corps and Coast Guard.  I laid it out in text as best I could but I added a DB search tool where you can input either a last name or a command and the search will show you the results from all three services. 

It has been on our list to add names in all the categories since 2020, but getting that information is not easy or been possible of recent.

If anyone on the list has access to this information, I (We at NHAHS) would be most appreciative…Please share it…..Thanks Carl for the share….most appreciated….mgb

 

From: Carl Bush <cfbush48@yahoo.com>
Sent: Friday, December 5, 2025 7:12 AM
To: Helobubbas <helobubbas@helobubbas.com>; James Lowder <lowderjf@gmail.com>
Subject: [Helobubbas] Re: COMHSLWINGLANT?

 

James,

 

Here is a list of the early HSMWINGLANT Commodore's:

M.B. O’Conner

Mar-1985

* K.F. Delaney

May-1987

R.M. Wikstrom

Jun-1989

* R.T. Ziemer

Oct-1990

W.C. Turville, Jr.

Jun-1992

Redesignated CHSLW-1

Jul-1992

Redesignated CHSLWLANT

Jul-1993

W.C. Turville, Jr.

Jul-1993

A.W. Clark, III

Jul-1994

D.W. Willmann

May-1996

G.W. Hoffman

Apr-1998

R.F. Sears

Dec-2001

 *** W.K. Lescher

May-2002

W.A. Cuilik

Mar-2004

Redesignated CHSMWLANT 

Jul-2006

M. Martin

Jul-2006

G. Doyle

Sep-2007

C.F. Bush

Jul-2009

D.J. ten Hoopen

Feb-2011

D.E. Boyles

Aug-2012

C. Conley

Jan-2014

W.S. Walsh

Sep-2015

M.L. Burd

May-2017

M. Weaver

Jan-2019

R. Whitfield

Jun-2020

 

 

Carl Bush

Atlantic Beach, FL

904-508-3738

 

 

On Friday, December 5, 2025 at 07:09:07 AM EST, James Lowder <lowderjf@gmail.com> wrote:

 

 

Bubbas,

 

Can anyone point to a web site covering the history of COMHSLWINGLANT  from 1989 through 1992? 

 

I would like to re-connect with the Commodore I worked with as the SH2G FIT O-in-C. First, I have to figure out who he was!

 

--

Best regards,

Jim Lowder

806-731-3906

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