Robert "OG" Swain

Lieutenant Swain is a Seahawk weapons and tactics instructor and MH-60S pilot currently on the Carrier Air Wing 5 staff embarked on the USS Ronald Reagan (CVN-76). He deployed to Fifth Fleet in 2015 with the Kearsarge Amphibious Ready Group (ARG)/26th Marine Expeditionary Unit (MEU) and in 2018 with the Iwo Jima ARG/26th MEU. While assigned to Helicopter Sea Combat Weapons School Pacific, he was the standardization officer and AMCM subject matter expert. He is the winner of the 2018 CNO Naval History Essay Contest and 2017 Navy/Marine Corps Leadership Award.

Articles by Robert "OG" Swain

Retention Must Be a Special Evolution

By Lieutenant Rob Swain, U.S. Navy

December 2022

Today, Navy leaders are confronting a new special evolution—to improve top-performer Gen Z retention.

Lessons from Rotary Wing Navy–Marine Corps Littoral Operations

By Lieutenant Rob Swain, U.S. Navy

November 2021

The force-multiplying benefits of a Navy and Marine Corps in synchronized formation is formidable.

Sea Mines: The Low-End Threat in the High-End Fight

By Lieutenant Robert “OG” Swain and Lieutenant Commander Ryan Easton, U.S. Navy

August 2021

The Navy must determine if its current and developing mine countermeasures systems, force structure, and strategy will be adequate to mitigate the future threat.

Lt. Braden Schrock prepares to fast-rope from an MH-60S Seahawk helicopter, assigned to the "Dragon Slayers" of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron (HSC) 11, on to the flight deck aboard the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN-75)

Fly to Fight, Fight to Win

By Lieutenant Robert E. Swain III, U.S. Navy

October 2018

History can instruct the future of expeditionary rotary-wing aval aviation.