Story by Master Sgt. Ryan Matson | 7th Army Training Command | 02.25.2021
Air crews from the 1st Battalion, 214th Aviation Regiment “Cougars” perfected their aerial gunnery skills Feb. 15 to March 1 as part of the Cougar Flurry field training exercise held in Baumholder Training Area, Baumholder, Germany....
Story by Sgt. John Todd | 7th Army Training Command | 01.14.2021
Echo Company, 1-214th Aviation Battalion, is part of the 12th Combat Aviation Brigade and the only fixed-wing unit in the U.S. Army Europe and Africa Command. They provide a critical lifeline to forward-supported areas in the theater from their home base at Wiesbaden Army Airfield located on Clay Kaserne, Germany....
Story by Amy Stork | U.S. Army Garrison Ansbach | 05.21.2020
Pilots and crew members of the 1-3rd Attack Reconnaissance Battalion (ARB), known as the ‘Vipers’; and Bravo Company, 1st Battalion, 214th Aviation Regiment, known as ‘Big Windy’, embarked on a two-hour training flight in a show of strength May 19....
Story by Staff Sgt. Larraine Whetstone | U.S. Special Operations Command Europe | 07.29.2016
STUTTGART, Germany- Special Operations Command Europe hosted the 2nd Annual International Jump Week, here, July 25-29. Sixty-seven foreign jumpers from Belgium, Denmark, Estonia, Germany, Holland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, and the United Kingdom joined forces with U.S. military members to perform high-altitude, low-opening and static line jumps from MC-130J aircraft from 352nd Special......
Story by Sgt. Thomas Mort | 12th Combat Aviation Brigade | 03.23.2016
Soldiers from the 44th Expeditionary Signal Battalion, 2nd Signal Brigade, "Brigade of Excellence", conducted sling load and air operations training with the help of two CH-47 Chinook Helicopters from Hotel Company, 1st Battalion, 214th Aviation Regiment, 12th Combat Aviation Brigade, "Big Windy", Mar. 22-23, at the Grafenwoehr Training Area, Germany....
Story by Staff Sgt. Coltin Heller | 109th Mobile Public Affairs Detachment | 09.23.2014
The blades spun slowly at first, then faster until they become a blur. The UH-60 Blackhawk helicopter rose from the ground as the air crew assigned to Company C, 1st Battalion, 214th Aviation Regiment prepared for hoist operations, among their first since relocating from Landstuhl to their new home here. The crew flew two iterations, flying as they would in combat, banking sharply and using......
Courtesy Story | 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division | 04.04.2012
Few ever expect to see a roughly 10,000-pound, 45-foot metal bridge flown overhead, but to the engineers of 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division, it was just their latest innovative way of providing mobility for their brigade....
