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The Army Aviation School moved to Alabama in August,1954 and the first class began at Rucker that October. On February 1,1955, the Army Aviation Center was officially established at Rucker. In the same year during the month of October, the post was given permanent status and changed their name from Camp Rucker to Fort Rucker.
Fort Novosel (formerly Fort Rucker) is a United States Army post located primarily in Dale County, Alabama, United States. It is named in honor of Chief Warrant Officer Michael J. Novosel, an Army aviator and Medal of Honor recipient. [2] [3] It was previously named for a Civil War officer, Confederate Colonel Edmund Rucker. [4]
Alabama is home to 104 sites, the largest of which is the recently renamed Fort Novosel (formerly Fort Rucker) near the city of Enterprise. Dominated by the U.S. Army Aviation Center of Excellence ...
It was known as Ozark Army Air Field until January 1959, when the name was changed to Cairns Army Air Field, named for U.S. Army Major General Bogardus Snowden "Bugs" Cairns, who was killed instantly when his H-13 Sioux helicopter crashed minutes after takeoff in dense woods northwest of the Fort Rucker (now Fort Novosel), Alabama, headquarters ...
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The 1st Aviation Brigade is an aviation brigade of the United States Army, stationed at Fort Novosel in Alabama.It commands three distinctly different battalions—the 1st Battalion, 13th Aviation Regiment; the 1st Battalion, 145th Aviation Regiment; and the 2nd Battalion, 13th Aviation Regiment, the former Unmanned Aircraft Systems Training Battalion at Fort Huachuca, Arizona.
FORT NOVOSEL, Ala. (WDHN) — The United States Army Aviation Center of Excellence named Maj. General Clair A. Gill was the next senior leader at the change of command ceremony on Friday morning ...
The process of changing the name of Fort Rucker began in 2020 amid the protests that erupted as a result of the killing of George Floyd and the subsequent discussions about racism.