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The 111th Aviation Regiment is an army aviation regiment of the United States Army and the Florida National Guard. The Regiment was organized in the Florida Army National Guard as Company D, 26th Aviation Battalion and federally recognized on 1 September 1978 at Jacksonville. It was expanded, reorganized and redesignated on 2 October 1986 as ...
The predecessor of the Florida Army National Guard was a Spanish Florida militia formed in 1565 in the newly established presidio town of St. Augustine.On September 20, 1565, Spanish admiral and Florida's first governor, Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, attacked and defended Florida from an attempted French settlement at Fort Caroline, in what is now Jacksonville. [2]
Ordinarily under the control of the state government (in which the governor is the commander-in-chief) pursuant to Title 32 of the United States Code, National Guard troops may also be called into active federal service with the United States Army or the United States Air Force (in which the president serves as commander-in-chief) and deployed ...
A company of the battalion was established in Florida as part of the Florida Army National Guard. Changes to the regimental system in the late 1980s led to the superseding of the battalion by a regiment, itself part of the Aviation Brigade, 26th Infantry Division. The 126th's lineage includes that of the 122d Aviation Battalion due to ...
The 171st Aviation Regiment is an aviation regiment of the U.S. Army. . The regiment was constituted 8 June 1995 as the 171st Aviation, a parent regiment under the United States Army Regimental System and allotted to the Army National Guard of Georgia and Florida. [1]
3rd Combat Aviation Brigade: 3rd Infantry Division: Hunter Army Airfield, Fort Stewart, Georgia: 5th Squadron: 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade: 2nd Infantry Division: Desiderio Army Airfield, Camp Humphreys, Republic of Korea "Talon" 6th Squadron: 4th Combat Aviation Brigade: 4th Infantry Division: Butts Army Air Field, Fort Carson, Colorado: 7th ...
The National Guard Association of the United States argues that moving the Air National Guard units not only circumvents the authority of the state governors that oversee them but could also set a ...
The 164th Air Defense Artillery Brigade is an air defense artillery brigade of the United States Army as part of the Florida Army National Guard. The unit is headquartered in Orlando, Florida on the site of the former McCoy Air Force Base and is composed of two air defense artillery battalions and one field artillery battalion located at 12 ...