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The Initial Journey of Aviation Safety Starts in AIT
128th Aviation Brigade Update / CW3 Rosa M. Alvarez: In this issue, I’ve asked CW3 Rosa Alvarez to provide some insight as to the challenges your school house faces in ensuring the safe training of our future Army Aviation maintainers. “Above the Best!” —COL Rigole, Commander A student, PVT Mitchell Spychalski, performs a main rotor damper torque check at the 128th Aviation Brigade. 128th AVN BDE COURTESY PHOTOThe 128th Aviation Brigade at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Virginia is the proponent for the Advanced Individual Training (AIT) of Army Aviation maintenance Military Occupational Specialties (MOS). The 2nd Battalion, 210th Aviation Regiment directs the...
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Reserve Component Aviation Update / COL Mark W. Weiss: Welcome back to the ARNG. In this edition I’d like to report on an example of flexibility and teamwork that falls under the mantra of MIH… Making It Happen. We’ve seen it before, in all components… our bureaucracy fails to cope with the friction generated by a complex system, and an intrepid individual or two steps up, cuts the red tape, and Makes It Happen. UH-60M NET familiarization at the Western ARNG Aviation Training Site (WAATS)Such an example is currently underway down in Arizona. About a year ago, a dilemma arose: the...
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Branch Command Sergeant Major / CSM Eric C.Thom: “The greater danger for most of us lies not in setting our aim too high and falling short; but in setting our aim too low and achieving our mark.” – Michelangelo A UH-60 Black Hawk helicopter assigned to the 1st Battalion, 228th Aviation Regiment hovers over U.S. Army Special Operations members during overwater hoist training at Lake Yojoa, Honduras, Jan. 22, 2015. The 1-228th Aviation Regiment partnered with U.S. Army Special Operations personnel to practice recovering live personnel. The overwater hoist training was held to ensure members of Joint Task Force-Bravo are...
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From the Aviation Branch Chief / MG Michael D. Lundy: Since Vietnam and the advent of Air Mobility, Army Aviation has proven to be an essential component of combined arms maneuver and the American way of war. U.S. ARMY PHOTO BY SGT JOSE RAMIREZ, CBT. AVN. BDE., 1ST ARMORED DIV.Army Aviation’s inherent speed, mobility, lethality and agility uniquely enable combined arms maneuver, wide area security and special operations, our Army’s core competencies, across the conflict continuum. Since its inception, Army Aviation has been a high-demand, ground-centric and globally-committed asymmetric capability for our Nation. Today, Army Aviation is fully committed in 36...
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By Susan Yellen: Last year’s Army Aviation Mission Solutions Summit was an overwhelming success and I am looking forward to see how AAAA can top it this year. Once again we’re back in Nashville, TN at the Gaylord Opryland, one of my favorite places to stay. No matter whether you are on the exhibit floor, in the professional sessions, or just trying to navigate the meandering layout that is Opryland, you’re bound to run into friends from the past; this is a great forum in which to Network.2014 Army Aviation Mission Solutions Summit spouses’ tour around Nashville, TN.I would like...
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