National Guard Association of the U.S. has issued a statement regarding the Army’s recent announcement to keep four AH-64 attack helicopter battalions within the Army National Guard.
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Retired Brig. Gen. Roy Robinson, the NGAUS president, said equipping each of the four battalions with just 18 aircraft each means when they have to go to war, each one will have to find six more Apaches in order to win the battles.
With fewer rotorcraft, each battalion “will never have enough aircraft to train the way they are supposed to fight,” Robinson added.