Survivability – Outlook for Today and Tomorrow
Aviation Survivability / By CW3 Paul Olson: The Aviation Survivability Development and Tactics (ASDAT) team occupies a unique position in U.S. Army Aviation. ASDAT, the Army component of the Joint Combat Assessment Team (JCAT) underneath the Joint Aircraft Survivability Program (JASP), started as a forensics-focused team that examined enemy tactics techniques and procedures (TTP) utilized to affect U.S. aircraft and provided the joint aviation community with counter TTPs against the threats posed to them. These efforts resulted in increased U.S. military aircraft effectiveness and survivability. The team’s mission has expanded tremendously since its inception, with two new pillars of training...
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Aviation Survivability / By Mr. Ralph Troisio, Dr. Frances Bodrucki, Mr. Thomas Z. Provencher and Mr. Paul Restine: The development and proliferation of advanced anti-aircraft munitions including surface-to-air missiles (SAM), man-portable air-defense systems (MANPADS) and air-to-air missiles (AAM) present a significant threat to Army Aviation. These high-speed guided missile systems give crews little time to react to incoming threats and can prove fatal if not avoided or neutralized before impact. The U.S. Army Ground Combat Vehicles (GCVs) face similar threats in the form of Anti-tank Guided Missiles (ATGMs). EWAGS GRAPHIC A passive threat warning sensor (TWS) can increase aircraft and...
Learn MoreHow Are Our Youth Coping with COVID-19?
Family Forum / By Judy Konitzer: No doubt about it. We are living in a deeply altered world with a dramatic change in what is “normal.” Without a vaccine, and maybe even with one, COVID-19 may be here to stay indefinitely according to a growing consensus of scientists. Masks, full-to-the-max back packs and social distancing before, during and after school are the daily norm for most students physically returning to school./ PERSONAL PHOTO CW4 (RET.) JOE PISANO But as doctors improve treatments, and people embrace best practices like wearing a face mask, washing hands, and practicing social distancing, we are...
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Ask the Flight Surgeon / By CPT (Dr.) Gurdeep Buttar: Military service presents unique psychological, social, and environmental challenges that can strain families and relationships within it. ARMY.MIL photo Of considerable public health significance is intimate partner violence (IPV). IPV encompasses a range of physical, sexual, or psychological harms or stalking behavior by a current or former partner along a spectrum of severity. According to the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), 1 in 4 women and 1 in 7 men will experience physical violence by their intimate partner at some point during their lifetimes. About 1 in 3 women and...
Learn MoreReserve Unit at the Forefront of Readiness
By CPT Carlo Aragoncillo: Recently back from a deployment to the Southwest Asia Area of Operations in support of Operations Spartan Shield and Inherent Resolve, the 8th Battalion, 229th Aviation Regiment (8-229th AHB) based out of Fort Knox, Kentucky, is keeping readiness at the forefront. Aircrews from the 8-229th AHB stationed at Fort Knox, KY perform Fast Rope Insertion (FRIES) with Naval Special Warfare operators at a military operations in urban terrain (MOUT) site on Ft. Knox. / U.S. ARMY RESERVE PHOTO BY CW3 STEPHEN LACOMBE Within months of coming back home in early 2020, Aviation flight crews and assets...
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AMCOM Command Sergeant Major / By CSM Mike Dove: In the fall of 2019, the U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command (AMCOM) in conjunction with the Program Executive Office Aviation, the Future Vertical Lift Cross-Functional Team and the Systems Readiness Directorate of the Combat Capabilities Development Command Aviation and Missile Center teamed together to commission a study on the operational availability and materiel availability for future vertical lift systems with Wichita State University (WSU). National Institute for Aviation Research personnel use high fidelity scanners during the reverse engineering of the UH-60L./ NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR AVIATION RESEARCH, WICHITA STATE UNIVERSITY A...
Learn MoreSurvivability: A Combined Arms Discussion
Branch Chief’s Corner / By MG David J. Francis: Current and emerging threat capabilities provide our adversaries stand off from U.S. and coalition forces, which sets the basis for U.S. Army and Joint Force discussions on Multi-Domain Operations. 12th Combat Aviation Brigade staff members brief battle plans during a combined arms rehearsal for Saber Junction 20, Aug. 5, at Hohenfels, Germany./ U.S. ARMY PHOTO BY MAJ ROBERT FELLINGHAM Our consensus on how we will fight across all domains, drives the U.S. Army modernization strategy to give us the ability to penetrate, dis-integrate the Integrated Air Defense Systems (IADS) and Integrated...
Learn MoreSustainment and Ensuring Army Survivability
President’s Cockpit / By MG Jeff Schloesser, U.S. Army Retired: As a young combat engineer and later as an Army Aviator, I dwelled in a world focused on tactics, maneuver, and taking the fight to the enemy. Maintenance and sustainment were important to me, but it was often somebody else’s problem. Dr. F. Harold “Hal” Kushner VP Member & Family Wellness / AAPI FILE PHOTO What a rude awakening I got as a new battalion commander. Sustainment was MY responsibility, and I had lots to learn! Later as a brigade and division commander at war, I found myself often consumed...
Learn MoreAH-64D Mobile Training Team (MTT) – Army Aviation Enterprise Success!
Reserve Component / By BG J. Ray Davis: In early 2019 the Army National Guard (ARNG) and the United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence (USAACE) agreed on the need for a stop gap measure, which would increase Army AH-64D aircraft qualification throughput. 2LT Hart and WO1 Searcy, 1-211 Attack Reconnaissance Battalion, Utah Army National Guard wait for their first live-fire gunnery at Lakeside Range, Utah. 2LT Hart is a graduate of the ARNG AH-64D MTT. / U.S. ARMY NATIONAL GUARD PHOTO BY CW2 FRED BITTNER, UTAH ARNG The result was the ARNG stepping forward and establishing an MTT. The...
Learn MoreArmy Aviators Demonstrate Inherent Flexibility During COVID
Director of Army Aviation / By BG Michael C. (Mac) McCurry:The COVID-19 pandemic has been a challenge around the world, and for all Americans. The military and its Servicemembers have borne a proportionate share of that burden while demonstrating a firm resolve to prevail. As the coronavirus spread across the country, one of the Army’s primary tasks became protecting the force so we could protect the Nation. Staying home when possible and practicing social distancing became our best line of defense against further spreading the disease, and our surest way to keep ourselves and loved ones healthy. For many Servicemembers,...
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