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With an additional assault helicopter battalion and the Chinooks in the general support aviation battalion, the brigade was able to offer the division a new mission - Air Assault. The brigade also performed general aviation support missions, including being the sole provider of helicopter support for the senior members of the Iraqi Transitional ...
3d Battalion (Assault Helicopter) 1st Armored Combat Aviation Brigade: 1st Armored Division: Biggs Army Airfield, Fort Bliss, Texas: 641st Aviation. 2nd Battalion
A Combat aviation brigade (CAB) is a multi-functional brigade-sized unit in the United States Army that fields military helicopters, offering a combination of attack/reconnaissance helicopters (Boeing AH-64 Apache), medium-lift helicopters (Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk), heavy-lift helicopters (Boeing CH-47 Chinook), and MEDEVAC capability.
The 159th Aviation Regiment was redesignated to the same company on 1 October 2005 before it was redesignated again a year later 16 October 2006 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 2d Battalion. [1] Numerous other elements of the regiment have been active as well: 3d Battalion, 159th Aviation Regiment [2] 5th Battalion, 159th Aviation ...
Chief Warrant Officer 3 Stephen Dwyer was one of five soldiers killed on Nov. 10, 2023 when a MH-60 Blackhawk helicopter crashed in the Mediterranean Sea during a traning exercise.
On 1 July 1968, at Camp Eagle in the Republic of Vietnam, the 160th Aviation Group was constituted with elements of the 2d Squadron, 17th Cavalry; the 101st Aviation Battalion (Assault Helicopter); the 158th Aviation Battalion (Assault Helicopter); and the 159th Aviation Battalion (Assault Helicopter). Less than a year later, on 25 June 1969 ...
A National Guard unit’s helicopter has a small yet noticeable detail that often brings some levity to people in a dire situation: a sketch of singer Lionel Richie on the tail. ... NC community ...
In October 2017, half of the brigade deployed to Afghanistan as Task Force Falcon, [3] replacing the 16th Combat Aviation Brigade of the 7th Infantry Division. [4] In November 2019, the brigade took over responsibility as the rotational combat aviation brigade of Operation Atlantic Resolve in Germany from the Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st ...