Story by Chuck Cannon | Fort Polk Public Affairs Office | 07.10.2020
FORT POLK, La. — On July 9 at 1 p.m., eight pilots with the 1st Battalion, 5th Aviation Regiment, flew OH-58C Kiowa helicopters in a double “V” formation over the Joint Readiness Training Center and Fort Polk for the aircrafts’ final flight at JRTC and Fort Polk. The Kiowas have been replaced by the UH-72 Lakota. Capt. Tyler Smith, commander, Bravo Company “Gators,” 1st Bn, 5th......
Story by Richard Bumgardner | U.S. Army Security Assistance Command | 11.22.2019
U.S. Army aviator helps Hellenic Army Aviation incorporate a new aircraft into their aviation corps.
Story by Debra Valine | U.S. Army Security Assistance Command | 06.05.2019
Just 16 months from signing a Letter of Offer and Acceptance between the United States and Greece, the Security Assistance Command has delivered 70 Bell OH-58D Kiowa Warrior armed reconnaissance helicopters and one Boeing CH-47D Chinook heavy-lift helicopter. The Hellenic army acquired the helicopters through an Excess Defense Articles program grant. USASAC executes EDA cases for the Army....
Story by Kevin Larson | Fort Stewart Public Affairs Office | 02.26.2018
Fort Stewart's main gate static display underwent a change.
Story by Kari Hawkins | U.S. Army Aviation and Missile Command | 10.31.2017
Twenty feet overhead at the front entrance of the Army Aviation Museum at Fort Rucker, Alabama, is a static display of the Kiowa Warrior OH-58A/C helicopter....
Story by Staff Sgt. Teresa Gallagher | Joint Base Langley-Eustis | 09.18.2017
The U.S. Army Aviation Development Directorate flew the Army’s final OH-58D “Kiowa Warrior” flight from Felker Army Airfield at Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Sept. 19, 2017....
Story by Sgt. Robert Larson | 2nd Infantry Division/ROK-U.S. Combined Division | 09.01.2016
Rotational Forces conduct Final Kiowa deployment RODRIGUEZ LIVE FIRE COMPLEX, South Korea - It is like that one employee who’s given the company decades of great service, but it’s time to move on and retire. He’s got the skills and the years of experience, but by stepping aside, he opens the door for the future. His team gives him a small going away party, one last meaningful mission,......
Story by Staff Sgt. Ken Scar | 108th Training Command- Initial Entry Training | 08.29.2016
Three I Corps officers with a combined 70 years of experience as Army aviators spent an afternoon with one of the last OH-58D Kiowa Warriors still on active duty – a helicopter each man spent countless hours behind the controls of....
