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 The Kiowas have been replaced by the UH-72 Lakota.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 Staff Sgt. Christopher Hubenthal | DMA Pacific - Hawaii Media Bureau | 06.09.2016
WHEELER ARMY AIRFIELD, Hawaii – The 25th Combat Aviation Brigade added 24 advanced multi-role combat helicopters in the form of the AH-64D Apache to its arsenal this past April and celebrated the new capability here June 9....
Story by Sgt. Joshua Laidacker | 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division Public Affairs | 01.30.2015
Three light infantry companies of 3rd Battalion, 15th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division, were the first companies to conduct a combined arms live-fire exercise during the brigade’s field training event, Vanguard Focus, which started Jan. 20, 2015, on Fort Stewart, Ga....
Story by Spc. Caitlyn Byrne | 27th Public Affairs Detachment | 08.07.2014
Vibrant Response 14, the nation’s premiere disaster relief training mission that takes place here and at the Muscatatuck Urban Training Center in Butlerville, Indiana, has come to an end. VR 14, which started on July 21, is a major field training exercise directed by U.S. Northern Command and executed by U.S. Army North. Service members and civilians from the military and other federal and......
Story by Spc. Caitlyn Byrne | 27th Public Affairs Detachment | 08.04.2014
A plume of white smoke rises in the air from a simulated building fire as Soldiers of Company A, 412th Civil Affairs Battalion, Ohio Army Reserves, Task Force 46, drive up to a Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center, Indiana field location, Aug. 4. Their mission is to identify a suitable location for a federal medical facility. The 412th is located in Columbus, Ohio....
Story by Spc. Caitlyn Byrne | 27th Public Affairs Detachment | 08.02.2014
In a wide, secluded grass field, near Camp Atterbury Joint Maneuver Training Center, Indiana, bright yellow and white tents sit beneath a vivid blue sky. The atmosphere is busy but calm, despite the heavy in-flow of role players taking on the job of radiation and nuclear blast victims, Alabama National Guard Soldiers of the 690th Chemical Company, Task Force 46 take it all in stride, providing......
Story by Spc. Caitlyn Byrne | 27th Public Affairs Detachment | 08.01.2014
As part of the Vibrant Response 14 training exercise, the Department of Defense responded to a simulated 10-kiloton, nuclear explosive device that detonated Aug. 1, in a major Midwestern city. In the event the detonation of a nuclear bomb were to occur, it is not just the immediate community that would be affected; the explosion would have a ripple effect causing distress throughout adjacent......
Story by Staff Sgt. Michael Beck | South Dakota National Guard Public Affairs | 05.31.2013
The OH-58 Kiowa helicopter has served in the U.S. Army since 1969, and served nearly two decades as a part of the South Dakota Army National Guard’s inventory. The OH-58 made its final flight Friday, May 31, at the Rapid City Regional Airport and marked the end of this aircraft’s service as a part of the SDARNG....
