-BOEING: U.S. Army Unit equipped with Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow Helicopters begins collective training

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M2 PRESSWIRE-29 July 1998-BOEING: U.S. Army Unit equipped with Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow Helicopters begins collective training (C)1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:280798 With the arrival of the 24th production AH-64D Apache Longbow multi-mission combat helicopter earlier this month, the first U.S.

Army unit equipped with Apache Longbows has turned its attention to battalion-level training. Members of the 1st Battalion, 227th Aviation Regiment, who completed their individual pilot and maintenance training in Mesa, Ariz., now face three months of intensive company-level and battalion-level training and evaluation at Fort Hood, Texas. The men and women of the 1-227th will complete a series of comprehensive classroom, flight and field exercises through...