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A Combat aviation brigade (CAB) is a multi-functional brigade-sized unit in the United States Army that fields military helicopters, offering a combination of attack/reconnaissance helicopters (Boeing AH-64 Apache), medium-lift helicopters (Sikorsky UH-60 Black Hawk), heavy-lift helicopters (Boeing CH-47 Chinook), and MEDEVAC capability.
The 1st Battalion (General Support), 168th Aviation Regiment (GSAB), can trace its history back to 1959 when it was originally organized as the 41st Aviation Company in the Washington Army National Guard located at Camp Murray, Tacoma, Washington. [1]
2nd Battalion (General Support) [1]Afghanistan 2017 - 2018 Company A [2]Company B (CH-47) Detachment 1 "Carolina Hookers" at Army Aviation Support Facility #2, Donaldson Center Airport [3]
The 101st Combat Aviation Brigade is the Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB) of the United States Army's 101st Airborne Division. [1] It was first organized in July 1968 as an aviation group and stands as the most decorated aviation unit in the United States Army.
GSAB may mean: General Support Aviation Battalion , a unit in the US Army's Combat Aviation Brigades, for example, 168th Aviation Regiment (United States) Geological Society of America Bulletin
The brigade traces its history to the activation of the 16th Aviation Group (Combat) on 23 January 1968 subordinate to United States Army Pacific at Marble Mountain in Da Nang, South Vietnam.
The regiment was constituted 1 April 1957 in the Regular Army as the 4th Aviation Company, assigned to the 4th Infantry Division, and activated at Fort Lewis, Washington.
Between 1965 and 1966 the group doubled in size and was used to form the 1st Aviation Brigade in March 1966. [4] Among its units in Vietnam were the: 17th, 57th, and 61st Aviation Companies flying the de Havilland Canada CV-2 Caribou transport aircraft before the Caribous were transferred to the United States Air Force on 1 January 1967.