Flight Log Sortie Codes

[Mark McGregor]

I posted this in Scuttlebutt, but there doesn't seem to be much action there, so I'm reposting it here, too.

I was recently perusing my old HA(L)-3 flight logs, and was wondering about deciphering the Sortie Codes (e.g., 1F, 2F, DCS, 2DCS, etc.). I'm not having any luck on the Internet. I've found info about the Flight Purpose Codes, but nothing I can decipher about the Sortie Codes. Any ideas?

[Dan Arnes]

Mark,

Check with Bill Rutledge. I believe he has a record of all those codes etc, from the proper time period we were in.

I did a quick search and found some info on our own website.
Flight Purpose Codes

Dan

[Mark McGregor]

Okay, thanks, Dan. I'll check with Bill. Frank Miles had that same FPC annotated instruction in his collection, so I already have that one. The sortie codes are spinning me up! Neither Frank, nor John Dixon, the two Det 4 Logs and Records POs during my time there, have any documentation or recollection about what the codes mean.

[Mark McGregor]

Thanks to Bill Rutledge, Mike Law, Gary Roush, Tom Phillips, and Frank Miles, the burning question of sortie codes in the enlisted flight logs has been answered. For those interested, the following deciphering was arrived at:

1. DCS (Direct Combat Support) = .4 AMP - 0.4 means the flight occurred in an area where it could have been fired on, but was not or did not detect it.
2. F  (Flight) = 1.0 AMP - 1.0 means the flight put in a strike but received no hostile fire that could be could detected.
3. S (Strike) = 2.0 AMP - 2.0 means the flight took fire.
(F/ which is the same as the DCS .4 AMP)

[Tom M]

Came into HAL-3 in a rate that they had no use for. got
stuck for a while in OPS, entering yellow sheets into pilots
flight logs.

AFAIR : those AMP notations were in regard to Air Medal Points.