BOEING: First two Boeing Apache Longbows arrive at Fort Rucker.

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M2 PRESSWIRE-15 June 1999-BOEING: First two Boeing Apache Longbows arrive at Fort Rucker (C)1994-99 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:140699 Fort Rucker, Ala. -- The first two Boeing AH-64D Apache Longbow multi-role combat helicopters arrived at Fort Rucker, Ala., signaling the debut of Apache Longbow pilot training here.

The arrival here at the home of Army Aviation was marked by a ceremony today on the 224th anniversary of the U.S. Army. Pilot training, which had been successfully conducted at The Boeing Company in Mesa, Ariz., for the past two and a half years, is moving to Fort Rucker, where the Army has prepared helicopter pilots for the past five decades. Training is scheduled to begin in January. Hundreds of Apache pilots have been trained over the...