101st to use CH-47s for assaults

The U.S. Army’s 101st Airborne (Air Assault) Division intends to add a new CH-47 battalion into its ranks to perform assaults.

CH-47 Chinook Afghanistan 101st Airborne 2010
ISAF Headquarters Public Affairs Office from Kabul, Afghanistan [CC BY 2.0], via Wikimedia Commons


The division’s leader Maj. Gen. Brian E. Winski said this during a session of the 2019 Maneuver Warfighter Conference at McGinnis-Wickam Hall.

A total of 36 CH-47s will be in this new unit.

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