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Making Dreams Come True – Pilot for a Day
Army Aviation Spotlight On Oct 4, 2012, 7 year old Richard Culliver from Lexington, SC was diagnosed with an inoperable brain tumor which greatly impacts his motor skills. Recently, the tumor is apparently shrinking and he is beginning to regain some of his mobility and speech. He has always dreamed of being a Soldier and the men and women of the South Carolina National Guard were determined to make his dream a reality. Richard Culliver from Lexington, SC, sits in the cockpit of a U.S. Army LUH-72 with CW4 Steven M. Salinas, 2nd Bn. (Security & Support), 151st Avn....
Learn MoreComplete Aircraft Maintenance Support
128th Aviation Brigade Update —By Ms. Allie Eschenbach I have asked Allie Eschenbach from our Learning Technology Division to lay out a breakdown of the currently available training on the Joint Technical Data Integration website, what additional training is scheduled to be included, and what the future holds as the JTDI becomes the Consolidated Aviation Portal and Storage. COL Rigole, Commander If you have finished your formal maintenance resident training at the 128th Aviation Brigade and would like to review the training products or need training material to conduct refresher training for your Soldiers, we have support for you. We want...
Learn MoreKeeping Perspective
U.S. Army Combat Readiness/Safety Center —By BG Timothy J. Edens With the new year comes an opportunity for fresh perspective. It gives us a chance to reflect and start anew with a clean slate, with plenty of hope for a better year than the last. This opportunity also offers leaders at all levels a chance to reinvigorate their safety programs, especially as Soldiers are more likely to be refreshed and refocused after coming off extended leave. Perspective has proven powerful. In conflicts throughout time, war has taken such a dramatic human toll that accidental losses were seen as one of the unfortunate...
Learn MoreThe Warrior Brigade
Branch Command Sergeant Major —By CSM James H. Thomson Jr. This month I will highlight the 110th Aviation Brigade stationed at Fort Rucker, Alabama and one that all Army aviators are familiar with as the brigade primarily conducts all rotary flight training. The brigade traces its lineage back to the 10th Aviation Group that was activated in June 1965 at Ft. Benning, Georgia to support the 11th Air Assault Division (Test) developing emerging techniques, tactics and procedures for rotary wing aircraft use in combat in Southeast Asia. After the 11th Division was inactivated, the 10th Avn. Gp. remained at Ft. Benning...
Learn MoreDeep Futures – Opportunities and Challenges
From the Aviation Branch Chief -MG Kevin W. Mangum Many of you have likely heard some of the alternatives being considered for both the composition and disposition of our Branch in the years to come. There are many tough choices pending decision as the Army Aviation Enterprise diligently works to field the very best, most capable capability we can afford. U.S. Army paratroopers assigned to the 173rd Infantry Brigade Combat Team conduct a training jump from a CH-47 Chinook helicopter into the Bunker Drop Zone at the 7th Army Joint Multinational Training Command’s Grafenwoehr Training Area in Bavaria, Germany, Nov....
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