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The US Army’s 6th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment (AVN), welcomed a new Chinook unit on June 22, when Company G was activated at Fort Campbell in Kentucky.
![US Army 101st AVN CH-47F sling-load training exercise 19-07-17 [US Army/Sgt Marcus Floyd (101st CAB)]](/proxy.php?image=https%3A%2F%2Ffullfatthings-keyaero.b-cdn.net%2Fsites%2Fkeyaero%2Ffiles%2Finline-images%2FUS%2520Army%2520101st%2520AVN%2520CH-47F%2520sling-load%2520training%2520exercise%252019-07-17%2520%255BUS%2520Army%2520-%2520Sgt%2520Marcus%2520Floyd%255D.jpg&hash=89122fa538c6421f1d6391be288927c1 "US Army 101st AVN CH-47F sling-load training exercise 19-07-17 [US Army/Sgt Marcus Floyd (101st CAB)]")
Troops assigned to Battery C, 1st Battalion of the US Army's 320th Field Artillery Regiment attach an M777 Howitzer to the belly of a Boeing CH-47F Chinook from Company B, 6th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, during a sling-load training exercise at Fort Campbell, Kentucky, on July 19, 2017. US Army/Sgt Marcus Floyd (101st CAB)
Known as ‘Varsity’, the company will operate the Boeing CH-47F in the heavy-lift tactical transport helicopter role as the battalion’s second Chinook company. The battalion is a component of the 101st Airborne Division’s Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB).
The activation of a second Chinook company within the 101st AVN restores the regiment’s heavy-lift tactical transport capability, which was reduced by 50% when the division’s second CAB was deactivated in December 2015.
By Tom Kaminski
www.key.aero
Known as ‘Varsity’, the company will operate the Boeing CH-47F in the heavy-lift tactical transport helicopter role as the battalion’s second Chinook company. The battalion is a component of the 101st Airborne Division’s Combat Aviation Brigade (CAB).
The activation of a second Chinook company within the 101st AVN restores the regiment’s heavy-lift tactical transport capability, which was reduced by 50% when the division’s second CAB was deactivated in December 2015.
By Tom Kaminski
US Army’s 101st AVN welcomes new Chinook unit
The US Army’s 6th Battalion, 101st Aviation Regiment, welcomed a new Chinook unit on June 22, when Company G was activated at Fort Campbell in Kentucky
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