In my opinion, the HSC world made a terrible strategic business decision when it put all its eggs in the CSAR basket.  Despite being a disgruntled LAMPS guy, the community went forward with an excellent understanding of how to sell the capabilities of the Romeo to the air wing while HSC clung to VERTREP and CSAR.  One of those missions was soon outsourced to Evergreen; the other was locked up by the AF, Army, and Marines.  At no time during my deployments and later CENTCOM planning conferences was a Navy CSAR package ever even mentioned.

At the time a lot of big choices had to get made, HSC seemed content with plane guard and they structured themselves accordingly.  The community has found a way to make itself a valid point defense asset, but HSM does the same job from the same flight deck.