That Bob gets around up there in Washington!
He called me a couple of years ago about some Seawolf Det guys and while we were talking I mentioned I was also looking for NAS Whidbey SAR guys and he said he was there in 1963 and flew the HOS4 a version of H-19 (
http://www.aviastar.org/helicopters_eng/sik_s-55.php) and later flew the HU-16 Albatross (
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grumman_HU-16_Albatross) and the H-34.
Dan