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The 101st was the first conventional aviation asset deployed after 9/11. The 101st would support battalions of the 187th Infantry Regiment (part of the 3d Brigade of the 101st Airborne Division), fighting Taliban and Al-Qaeda forces. [citation needed] In February 2003, the brigade was again alerted to deploy in support of Operation Iraqi ...
The 101st Airborne Division consists of a division headquarters and headquarters battalion, two infantry brigade combat teams, one mobile brigade combat team, division artillery, a combat aviation brigade, a sustainment brigade. 101st Airborne Division, Fort Campbell, Kentucky. Headquarters and Headquarters Battalion "Gladiators" [148]
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.
Residents in the Tennessee and Kentucky state border area should anticipate seeing more military vehicles on the roads and helicopters in the skies from April 10 to 30, as the 101st Airborne ...
The soldiers were part of the 101st Airborne Division, the U.S. Army’s only air assault division. That division been based at the Fort Campbell army post since 1956, according to official U.S ...
At the time, the 1988 Fort Campbell crash was the Army’s worst aviation disaster since December 1985, when nearly 250 soldiers from the 101st Airborne Division were killed when a chartered ...
1 July 1968 in the Regular Army as Company C, 101st Aviation Battalion, an element of the 101st Airborne Division; Activated 20 December 1968 in Vietnam. Reorganized and redesignated 16 October 1987 as Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, and remained assigned to the 101st Airborne Division. [2]
Crew members were flying two HH-60 Black Hawk helicopters, operated by the 101st Airborne Division, which crashed at around 10:00 p.m. ET (0200 GMT Thursday) in Kentucky's Trigg County, Fort ...