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Aviation Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division
Units
1-2 AVN “Strike Deep”
2-2 AVN “Wild Cards”
4-7 CAV “Garry Owen”/”Out Front!”
Facilities
Camp Stanley
Official Homepage
Aviation Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division
There were three Apache Battalions in the ROK as of 1999 — 1/6 CAV at Camp Eagle, 3/6 CAV at Camp Humphries, and 1-2 AVN at Camp Page.
1st Battalion / 2nd Aviation Rgt “Strike Deep”
Units
HHC Company – “Diamondbacks”
Alpha Company – “Razorback”
Bravo Company – “Paladins”
Charlie Company – “Bushwackers”
Delta Company – “Roadrunners”
Facilities
Camp Page
Official Homepage
1st Battalion / 2nd Aviation Rgt
1st Battalion / 2nd Aviation Rgt
On order the 1st Battalion / 2nd Aviation Rgt transitions to War and performs reconnaissance and security operations to allow 2nd Infantry Division to execute OPLAN 5027. The 1st Battalion consists of five companies: HHC, Alpha, Bravo, Charlie and Delta. HHC is the Headquarters and Support company; A, B and C companies are the three Apache line companies, which Delta is the Aviation Unit Maintenance Company (AVUM).
The 1st Battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment formally activated in a special ceremony at Fort Hood on 05 January 2001. As part of the ceremony, Lt. Col. Stephen A. Ingalls assumed command of the new unit, which has about 300 soldiers assigned. The battalion was initially at Fort Hood as part of the program to train the unit’s pilots and crews to conduct successful combat operations with the new AH-64D Apache Longbow helicopters. The six-month training program was conducted by Fort Hood’s 21st Cavalry Brigade. As of April 2001 the 1st Battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment was training on the new AH-64D Apache Longbow at Fort Hood, pending deployment to Korea later in the year. The U.S. Army is modernizing its fleet of AH-64A Apaches into next-generation Apache Longbow helicopters, which link a wide range of avionics, electronics and weapons into one fully integrated weapon system. The Apache Longbow is 28 times more capable than the battle-proven AH-64A Apache, for years considered to be the world’s best combat helicopter. When the training is completed later this year, the unit deployed to Korea and began operations with the 2nd Infantry Division.
As of early 2001 there were 48 Apaches in South Korea. The third Korea-based unit of 24 craft [1st Battalion / 2nd Aviation Rgt] returned in late 2001 from the United States with an upgraded version of the attack helicopter. In the Korean theater, the three Apache battalions are dedicated to missions critical to the OPLAN: support of 2d Infantry Division operations (1-2 Aviation), and anti-special operations forces (anti-SOF) and deep attack operations (1-6 and 3-6 Cavalry). Although the DPRK Scud Belt is within range of Combined Forces Command (CFC) attack helicopters, it is highly unlikely that an attack helicopter battalion will be dedicated solely to Theater Missile Defense [TMD] operations due to prioritization. Given the combat power of these attack helicopter units and the criticality of their assigned missions, the likelihood that one of these essential missions will be replaced by TMD is exceedingly slim.
The battalion was originally the 4th Battation, 501st Aviation Regiment, brought over to Korea from Fort Hood, Texas to replace an AH-1 (Cobra) Attack Battation in November 1994.
One job of the OH-58A is to precede the Apache into battle as a target spotter. Camp Page was the location of the newest Apache battalion in Korea. As of late 1994 there were two Apache battalions there, the first having arrived in March 1994. The second one was 4th Battalion of the 501st, belonging to the 17th Aviation Brigade in Korea. An OH-58A helicopter that was part of the newly arrived 4th Battalion of Apache attack helicopters went down over North Korea on 17 December 1994. The crash of “Razorback 19,” the Army helicopter flight into North Korea, left one pilot dead and a second in North Korean hands for 13 days. Chief Warrant Officer 2, Bobby Wayne Hall II, a pilot of an OH-58A-C with A Company, 4th Battalion, 501st Aviation, 17th Aviation Brigade, U.S. Army stationed in South Korea was eventually released, while his partner, Chief Warrant Officer David Hilemon, was killed in the crash-landing.
On 17 June 1996 the 4-501st Aviation Regiment becase the 1st Battalion (Attack), 2nd Aviation Regiment, and joined the 2nd Infantry Division. The transfer to the 2nd Infantry Division facilityated the replacement of another AH-1 Cobra Attack Battalion and brought the world’s premier attack helicopter to the 2nd Infantry Division.
2nd Battalion / 2nd Aviation Rgt “Wild Cards”
Units
HHC Company
Alpha Company
Bravo Company “Renegades”
Charlie Company
Delta Company
Facilities
Camp Stanley
Official Homepage
2nd Battalion / 2nd Aviation Rgt
The 2d Battalion (Assault), 2d Aviation Regiment is the most forward deployed Assault Helicopter Battalion in the world. The Battalion’s bread and butter is the multi-aircraft air assault under night vision goggles. The air assault operation employs firepower and mobility to engage and destroy the enemy.
The workhorse of the battalion’s fleet is the Sikorsky built UH-60 Blackhawk. The UH-60 is a twin turbine engine, single rotor, semimonocoque fuselage, rotary wing helicopter. Its primary mission is tactical transport of troops, supplies and equipment. Armament consists of two 7.62mm machine guns, one on each side of the forward cabin. Its top airspeed is 193 knots, or 386 kph (240 mph). The A model Blackhawk has the capability of carrying an external load of up to 8000 lbs, and can weigh as much as 22,000 lbs. The L model, which has improved engines and transmission, is capable of carrying an external load of up to 9000 lbs, and can weigh up to 23,500 lbs. Optional kit installations for the UH-60 consist of the Extended Range Fuel System (ERFS), infrared suppression, blade de-icing, winterization, static/rappelling kits, or even a mine dispensing system called Volcano. In addition to crew chief and gunner seats, troop seats are installed for up to 13 persons.
Camp Stanley, about six kilometers north of Seoul (South Korea’s capital), is about 25 km from the Demilitarized Zone. Camp Stanley’s tenant units include Headquarters, 2d Division Artillery; Headquarters, 2d Aviation Brigade; 2-2 Aviation Regiment; 6-37 Artillery; and 5-5 Air Defense Artillery.
4th Squadron 7th Cavalry “Garry Owen” / “Out Front!”
Units
CAMP GARRY OWEN
HHT/4-7 CAV
A Troop
B Troop
C Troop
CAMP STANTON
D Troop
E Troop
F Troop
Facilities
Official Homepage
4th Squadron 7th Cavalry
On order the 4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry transitions to War and performs reconnaissance and security operations to allow 2nd Infantry Division to execute OPLAN 5027. 4th Squadron 7th Cavalry is the Army’s most forwardly deployed heavy Divisional Cavalry Squadron, based at Camp Garry Owen, South Korea. Because of the diversity of this squadron, our squadron is not located on one installation.
4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry is responsible for accomplishing reconnaissance and security missions and engaging in offensive, defensive and retrograde operations as a part of the 2d Infantry Division. We are tasked to be combat ready at all times, to be prepared to counter North Korean aggression, and to ensure the ROK Army is also “Second to None”. The Squadron conducts a very active training program to remain prepared to accomplish these missions.
The 7th Regiment, known as the “Garry Owen Regiment,” was constituted by act of Congress and War Department General Order 56 on 1 August 1866 at Fort Riley, Kansas under command of Colonel Andrew Jackson Smith. Its ranks were filled with a hard-bitten crew of trappers, frontiersmen, and Civil War veterans.
The Regiment received its baptism by fire in 1867, as a part of an expedition against the Cheyenne. On 27 November 1868, the 7th Cavalry swept down on Black Kettle’s sleeping village of Cheyenne, and took them completely by surprise. During the Indian Campaigns (1866-1891), the 7th Cavalry acquired the reputation as the most experienced and capable mounted regiment in the U.S. Army. Under such leaders as Brevet Major General George A. Custer, the regiment fought innumerable battles against the Sioux, Cheyenne, and Nez Perce Indians while setting a pattern for fighting men of courage and devotion to duty. On the command “Forward” and the playing of Custer’s favorite tune “Garry Owen,” the troops stood ready for battle at all times.
On 25 June 1876, the regiment engaged in the infamous Battle of Little Big Horn in Montana. Despite the outcome of this battle, the engagement distinguished the 7th Cavalry Regiment in setting a pattern for fighting men in courage and devotion to duty. This battle gave the regiment one of six campaign streamers gained in the courage of the long and bloody Indian Wars. Fourteen troopers received the Congressional Medal of Honor during this period.
In the years that followed, the regiment was part of the Army of Pacification in Cuba and from 1905 to 1907, it helped combat the Phillipine Insurrection in Luzon. After fighting in these locations, the 7th Cavalry joined General John J. Pershing in the Mexican Punitive Expedition against the legendary Pancho Villa in 1916.
Serving with the 1st Cavalry in World War II, the 7th Cavalry garnered campaign streamers for New Guinea, Bismark Archipelago, Leyte, and Luzon campaigns and the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation. After the Leyte Campaign, forty-one Silver Stars were earned by the men of the 7th Cavalry out of 92 given to the entire Division.
The Regiment was chosen to escort General Douglas MacArthur into Tokyo. The Regiment served five years in Japan as part of the occupation force. Less than a month after the outbreak of hostilities in Korea, the 7th Cavalry drove 106 miles through enemy lines in twenty-four hours (the longest one day advance in military history) in order to join the 7th Infantry Division in Osan. It continued to fight with the 7th Infantry Division throughout the Korean War. The 7th Cavalry fought valiantly in the battles of the Naktong River, Seoul, the Chosen Resovoir, the Yalu, and “Operation Commando.” The 7th Cavalry holds eight campaign stars for service in Korea.
After its service in Korea, the 7th Cavalry returned to Japan with the 1st Cavalry Division to assist in the mission of protecting the island of Hokkaido from attack. In August of 1957, the regiment moved out of Japan in conjunction with the reduction of ground forces in Japan. Up until 1965, when the 4-7 Cavalry joined the 2d Infantry Division, the 7th Cavalry served honorably in Japan and Vietnam. The unit fought in Southwest Asia where it served with distinction. Thereafter, its new mission in Korea was to become the eyes and ears for the 2d Infantry Division along the Western Corridor of the Korean Peninsula. Its organization has changed repeatedly between numbers of air troops and ground troops, but its mission remained the same.
In 1988, the colors of the 4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry was inactivated and the unit reflagged as the 5th Squadron, 17th Cavalry at Camp Garry Owen, Korea. The 4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry was reactivated on 5 April 1995 and the colors of the 5th Squadron, 17th Cavalry were inactivated.
The 7th Cavalry proudly displays forty-one campaign streamers. Additionally, it has received six Presidential Unit Citations, the Philippine Presidential Unit Citation, the Chryssoun Ariston Andrias Greek Bravery Citation, and two Korean Presidential Unit Citations.
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2nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division
Aviation Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division
The mission of the 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division is to conduct theater aviation operations in support of Eighth United States Army. On order the Brigade provides combat aviation support to the GCC (Ground Component Command) as an element of the CAF (Combined Aviation Force).
The 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade traces its lineage back to the activation of the Aviation Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. As part of the transformations throughout the US Army after the initiation of the Army of Excellence (AOE) concept in 1983, division aviation elements were expanded into brigades. Subsequently, the 2nd Aviation Battalion was reorganized to become the core element of the Aviation Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division. This unit consisted of the 1st Battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment; 2nd Battalion, 2nd Aviation Regiment; and the 4th Squadron, 7th Cavalry Regiment.
The Aviation Brigade supplemented Eighth US Army’s 2 other organic aviation elements, the 6th Cavalry Brigade and the 17th Aviation Brigade. By 1999, there were 3 Apache equipped Battalions in the Republic of Korea. 2 of these were part of the 6th Cavalry Brigade, 1-6th Cavalry (located at Camp Eagle) and 3-6th Cavalry (statinoed at Camp Humphreys). The last of these units was 1-2nd Aviation at Camp Page, part of the 2nd Infantry Division’s Aviation Brigade.
Historically, brigade command was been the highest echelon of command in the US Army where the majority of basic branch officers command primarily functionally-pure, branch-specific formations and/or organizations. Promotable Aviation lieutenant colonels and colonels in the operations career field had the opportunity to compete in at least one of these centralized selection list command boards.
Selection for brigade command was a distinct accomplishment. Historically, slightly more than 20 percent of Aviation colonels were selected to command at the brigade level. These colonels had been selected in accordance with the specific requirements as outlined in the DA Selection Board Memorandum of Instruction (MOI). These requirements were traditionally contained within 5 categories, 4 of which were functional or branch specific. A colonel had to possess a branch and an area of concentration compatible with the category requirements in order to compete in that category.
Aviation brigades located at the corps level or below historically consisted of 2 to 4 Aviation battalions. As the Army went through the transformation to the modular force, the existing aviation brigades would become Aviation Units of Action (UA). Their configuration would reflect a composite structure that was easily adaptive, expeditionary, able to deploy on short notice, and capable of conducting the entire spectrum of Aviation operations as part of a joint task force. The Army planned on transitioning from 17 tactical aviation brigades in 2004, to 11 aviation UAs by 2008.
The Eighth United States Army Multi-Functional Aviation Brigade (MFAB) was officially formed on 16 June 2005 as the 2nd Combat Aviation Brigade, assigned to the 2nd Infantry Division. The 6th Cavalry Brigade was concurrently inactivated and reflagged as the 2nd Aviation Brigade, while the 17th Aviation Brigade was simply inactivated, with some of its personnel and units being reflagged as units in the newly reorganized brigade. 2-52nd Aviation and 3-6th Cavalry were initially assigned to the new unit, before both units were reflagged in 2006. 2-52nd Aviation was reflagged as 3rd Battalion, 2nd Aviation, while 3-6th Cavalry was reflagged as 4th Battalion, 2nd Aviation. 4-7th Cavalry was reorganized and reassigned to the 1st Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division. The reorganization was part of both the transformation of the 2nd Infantry Division to the US Army’s new modular force structure and the draw down of US Forces in Korea.
The newly consolidated aviation unit included Apache Longbow attack helicopters, UH-60 Blackhawk utility helicopters, CH-47 Chinook medium lift helicopters and manages the Eighth US Army’s C-12 Huron (fixed wing aircraft) detachment. The reorganized brigade had the mission of direct support for all of the Eighth US Army, in addition to its role as the 2nd Infantry Division’s aviation brigade. This was to make up for the inactivate of the 6th Cavalry Brigade and the 17th Aviation Brigade. The unit gained the 164th Aviation Group (Air Traffic Services) from the inactivated 17th Aviation Brigade and the 602nd Aviation Support Battalion from the inactivation of the 2nd Infantry Division’s Support Command (DISCOM), also part of the modular transformation.
In 2007, the 164th Aviation Group was inactivated and reflagged as the 4th Battalion (Airfield Operations), 58th Aviation Regiment, which was assigned to Eighth US Army.