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Why Is the Army Chopping Away at Its Chopper Fleet? The cuts are part of a larger reorganization as the Army prepares for the changing landscape of warfare with one of the...
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Reckoning with Mortality: The Hidden Toll of Being a Military Family in the Aviation Community "The aviation community is very small. The rotary aviation world is even smaller. Since I met my husband in 2010, we have not...
Families of Those Killed in Black Hawk Collision with Jet Want More 'Openness, Compassion' from Army A letter addressed to Army Secretary Dan Driscoll calls on the service to communicate directly with the families in the wake...
Army Identifies 101st Airborne Pilot Killed in Apache Helicopter Crash Over the course of his career, Chief Warrant Officer 2 Dustin K. Wright earned numerous decorations, including the Air Medal...
One Soldier Dead, Another Injured in Fort Campbell Helicopter Training Crash A soldier was killed and another injured during an aviation training mission Wednesday evening at Fort Campbell, Kentucky...
Pentagon Lost Contact with Army Helicopter on Flight That Caused Jets to Nix Landings at DC Airport The aborted landings on May 1 added to general unease about continued close calls between government helicopters and...
National Guard Helicopter Crew Landed on Montana Ranch and Trespassed to Take Antlers, Citations Say Three Montana Army National Guard members face trespassing charges after authorities said they landed a Black Hawk helicopter...
Hotline Between Military and Air Traffic Controllers in Washington Hasn't Worked for over 3 Years The Federal Aviation Administration official in charge of air traffic controllers, Frank McIntosh, confirmed the agency didn...
This World War II POW Endured More Than 50 Years in Captivity When Anna Gabulya saw a television report of a POW’s return to Hungary a half-century after he served during World War II...
Retired 4-Star Navy Admiral Sentenced to 6 Years in Prison for Bribery Plot Retired Adm. Robert P. Burke, once the second-highest uniformed officer in the Navy, was commanding its forces in Europe and...
Pentagon Says Troops Can Only Be Exempt from Shaving Their Facial Hair for a Year Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth has ordered that troops who need an exemption from shaving their facial hair for longer than a...
Black Vietnam Veteran’s Story Reveals War’s Harsh Realities 50 Years Later It was May 1970, deep in the jungles of Vietnam, and 19-year-old infantryman John Smith stepped to the edge of a hill to...
Trump Says US Forces Sank Third Suspected Drug Boat off Venezuela President Donald Trump did not say how many people were killed in the third strike.
![Flight path of Army Black Hawk "PAT23" on a May 1, 2025](http://images04.military.com/sites/default/files/styles/thumbnail_large/public/2025-05/ApNewsroom_Army_Helicopter_Aborted_Landing_22282.jpg?itok=GOBdjEpf "This image provided by the U.S. Army shows a screenshot of data from the Automatic Dependent Surveillance – Broadcast, or ADS-B, of the flight path of Army Black Hawk "PAT23" on a May 1, 2025, flight that led to air traffic controllers aborting the landings of two commercial jets. (U.S. Army via AP)")
