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The Kentucky Guard also bestows a number of state awards for local services rendered in or to the state of Kentucky. The Kentucky Army National Guard is composed of approximately 61 armories and is present in 53 communities, with its headquarters located in Frankfort, Kentucky. [1]
Nicknamed the Flying Tigers, the battalion is the only United States Army attack helicopter unit in history to have captured enemy troops. During Desert Storm the battalion captured 527 enemy combatants, serving with the 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault). "The number of prisoners (527) is probably a record for EPWs captured by a helicopter ...
The Kentucky Air National Guard (KY ANG) is the aerial militia of the U.S. state of Kentucky.It is a reserve of the United States Air Force and along with the Kentucky Army National Guard, an element of the Kentucky National Guard of the much larger United States National Guard Bureau.
(Reuters) -The U.S. Army said on Thursday it was abandoning development of a Future Attack Reconnaissance Aircraft (FARA), a next-generation scout helicopter, after spending about $2 billion on ...
North American F-6C (P-51C-5-NT) Mustang Serial 42-103368 of the 15th Tactical Reconnaissance Squadron, 10th Reconnaissance Group at Saint-Dizier Airfield, France, Autumn 1944. This aircraft was flown by Captain John H. Hoefler, who used it to shoot down three enemy aircraft in June 1944.
2nd Battalion, 135th Aviation Regiment: The 2-135th Aviation is a reconnaissance and surveillance battalion equipped with RQ-7 Shadow unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The battalion is responsible for providing intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) support to the 1st Infantry Division and other joint forces.
Task Force 158 was the Army's only special operations aviation unit, and its members had already become recognized as the Army's premier aviation night fighters. Their capability was judged too useful to lose, and so instead of returning to the 101st, the pilots and modified aircraft became a new unit.
The 123rd Special Tactics Squadron is a special operations unit of the Kentucky Air National Guard 123d Airlift Wing stationed at Louisville International Airport (Louisville Air National Guard Base), Kentucky. The 123rd STS is one of only two Special Tactics Units in the Air National Guard.