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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 ...
The city was proclaimed to be another Fallujah-esque battle, i.e., heavy house to house fighting. 3/1 would hold the entire Triad area of Haditha, Barwanah, and Haqlaniyah until March 2006 when 3/3 relieved them. During 3/1's deployment, they found over 1,000 caches, detained over 400 known insurgents and lost four marines during their entire ...
3d Battalion (Assault Helicopter) 1st Armored Combat Aviation Brigade: 1st Armored Division: Biggs Army Airfield, Fort Bliss, Texas: 641st Aviation. 2nd Battalion
The regiment was created on 1 August 1977. It is located at Base_Lieutenant_Étienne_Mantoux, formerly known as the American occupied Étain Air Base.The regiment is heir by descent of the Aviation Platoon of the 9th Colonial Infantry Division, later transformed into the 3rd, then 23rd Aerial Artillery Observation Group (GAOA).
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.
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 ...
The Army on Friday identified two out of the three Black Hawk crew members as Staff Sgt. Ryan Austin O’Hara, 28, of Lilburn, Georgia, and Chief Warrant Officer 2 Andrew Loyd Eaves, 39, of Great ...
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 ...