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In a ceremony at the Joint Base Lewis-McChord, the U.S. Army declared the AH-64E operational under 1-229th Attack Reconnaissance Battalion.
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Sikorsky has been given a $46.9 million firm-fixed-price contract to convert 26 UH-60 Black Hawks to Taiwan Army and Taiwan National Airborne Service Corps configurations.
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Two Patriot missile batteries from U.S. Army Europe’s 10th Army Air and Missile Defense Command will replace the 3rd Battalion, 2nd ADA from Fort Sill in Turkey.
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A U.S. district uudge has sentence a former Army Apache pilot from Fort Bragg to three years in prison for stealing military equipment while deployed to Iraq.
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