"Tank Fixer" wrote in message
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In article ,
on Tue, 24 Feb 2004 20:04:05 -0500,
Kevin Brooks attempted to say .....

With 18 aircraft per divisional attack battalion



IIRC the divisional BN are going to 24 airframes.

That is the new plan; wasn't aware of that until earlier today. ISTR the
current/old model was 18 per DIV ATK BN, and 21 per corps ATK BN. Of course,
IIRC the even *older* MTOE requirement for the DIV ATK BN was...24 aircraft.
So we went from 24 to 18 and back to 24...and somewhere in there the light
divisions and the 82nd ABN DIV lost their "real" attack helos altogether,
and picked up the AH-58 in their stead. Heck, one thing is for sure--you
can't accuse the aviators of being unwilling to change!

Brooks

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